James in a Mess and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories

James in a Mess and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories is a book illustrated using photographs from the television series.

Plot
James gets into a mess with some tar wagons.

Stories

 * 1) James in a Mess
 * 2) Bertie's Chase
 * 3) Percy and the Signal
 * 4) Percy Proves a Point

Characters

 * Edward
 * Gordon
 * James
 * Percy
 * Toby
 * Bertie
 * Harold
 * Sir Topham Hatt
 * Thomas  (not seen)
 * Henrietta  (not seen)

Trivia

 * The stories in this book are based on episodes from the television series.
 * A photograph from Duck Takes Charge is used.
 * In the Thomas' Big Storybook edition, a promo picture of Harold is used.
 * In Bertie's Chase, like in the Shining Time Station episode, Washout, the story omits the first scene, starting with Bertie at the crossing.
 * A photo in Percy and the Signal is used again in Percy Proves a Point.
 * This was one of two books that were not released with an audio cassette, the other being Edward's Exploit and Other Thomas the Tank Engine Stories.

Goofs

 * In the story Bertie's Chase, holes drilled into Bertie's eyes are seen.
 * In the story Percy and the Signal, Gordon's front bogie is derailed.
 * In the original print, the sentence line "It was such an insult to be reminded of the time a bootlace had been used to mend a hole in his coaches." was divided by a page break, showing that this page ends with the word "an", and the next page starts with the word "insult". This is later corrected in the reprint.
 * In the first picture of James in a Mess, Henrietta is not behind Toby in the original print.
 * In Percy and the Signal, the term "truck" is used once.
 * In the first picture of Percy Proves a Point, a gear is seen behind Percy's rear wheel.