James (Story Library Book)

"We want a proper engine! Not a red monster!"

- The trucks

James, re-titled James the Red Engine in 2011, is the second book in the My Thomas Story Library series.

Plot
This is a story about James the Red Engine. When he first arrived on Sodor, he was so busy thinking about his shiny red paint that he soon got into lots to trouble. I thought I might have to send him away...

Characters

 * Edward
 * James
 * Troublesome Trucks
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Jeremiah Jobling
 * The Little Blue Tank Engine
 * Annie
 * Thomas
 * Gordon

Locations

 * Tidmouth Sheds
 * Knapford
 * Gordon's Hill
 * Cronk

Trivia

 * This book is based on the stories "James and the Top Hat", "James and the Bootlace", and "Troublesome Trucks" from the Railway Series book, James the Red Engine.
 * The book was released with a CD narrated by Michael Angelis in 2007.
 * In 2015, this book (along with five others) was sold as a website-exclusive book pack with a Wooden Railway James.
 * The lead truck of the breakaways is drawn with a mirrored version of Bulstrode's shocked face.

Goofs

 * Gordon's Hill is illustrated as having a single track instead of three tracks.
 * Most of the trucks in the ninth illustration lack facial features.
 * Edward is mistaken as Henry in Read and Play! app in Little Engines Easy Reading, despite Henry not appearing in this book.
 * James is oversized in the eighth illustration.

In Other Languages
ג'יימס (ספריית סיפורי תומס שלי) Kuba (My Thomas Story Library)