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There’s a very good reason these Thomas The Tank Engine books were never published

Poke Staff. Updated June 3rd, 2016

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Thomas The Tank Engine is a beloved children’s franchise, so it makes perfect sense that these rejected books never made it into shops and the hands of kids. Because they’re hugely inappropriate.

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