Drippy and Sticky the house painters have come to paint the Busytown fire station. But with Smokey and the other brave firefighters rushing in and out to rescue people, there are bound to be a few wet-paint mishaps!

Photographs and simple text describe all the things that a young girl enjoys about figure skating.

Describes the disastrous maiden voyage of the Titanic, "the safest ship ever built", which sank after colliding with an iceberg in the spring of 1912.

Young readers are introduced to the daily work of firefighters and fire safety as Big Frank and the rest of his crew race to the scene of an accident, inspect a local store, work at the firehouse, and fight a brush fire

Contains three Thomas the Tank Engine stories in which Gordon crashes through the wall of Sir Topham Hatt's new station; Toby gets washed downstream by a flood; and Oliver's brakevan goes out of control.

Diesel causes no end of trouble among the engines when he arrives at Thomas the Tank Engine's train yard.

Ringalina, the Telephone Fairy, reminds Willy and Lily about good telephone manners, including taking messages for their parents and not tying up the line for long periods of time.

Thomas, Gordon, and the other trains try to deliver an urgent package to Sir Topham Hatt as quickly as possible.