Little Red Engine and the Rocket

Little Red Engine

by Diana Ross, Leslie Wood (Illustrations)

The Little Red Engine is very busy and excited. It’s carrying everyone backwards and forwards to the rocket site each day until it’s built. When the Big Red Rocket finally blasts off, it’s carrying the very first space passengers! Who are they?

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Diana Patience Beverly Ross was an English children's author. A graduate of the Central School of Art in London, she also worked on sculpture and graphic arts and illustrated several of her own books under the name of her cat, Gri.

Beginning with The Little Red Engine Gets a Name (1942), followed by The Story of the Little Red Engine (1945) and seven more volumes, Ross created a series of picture books which followed the adventures of the same character.

Ross wrote several volumes of modern fairy tales for older chldren and also had an un-credited part in the creation of the BBC children's television series Camberwick Green. (wikipedia)