In the early 1940s, a loving father crafted a small blue wooden
engine for his son, Christopher. The stories that this father,
Reverend W. Awdry, made up to accompany this wonderful toy
were first published in 1945. He continued to create new adventures
and characters until 1972, when he retired from writing. Reverend
Awdry died in 1997 at the age of 85.
Established in July 2013 in a merger between Penguin and Random
House, Penguin Random House, with nearly 250 independent imprints
and brands on five continents, more than 15,000 new titles
published each year, and close to 800 million print, audio, and
eBooks sold annually, is the world’s leading trade book publisher.
Like its predecessor companies, Penguin Random House is committed
to publishing adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print
editions and is a pioneer in digital publishing. Its publishing
lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of
the world’s most widely read authors.
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