Thomas and the Fragile Flower School

One of my favorite Thomas adventures to play-act is "Thomas and the School Trip." For this adventure, Sir Topham Hatt tells Thomas to deliver the school children to some destination and Thomas goes there. Lately though, I've liked a variant of this adventure that Daddy came up with even better---Thomas and the Fragile Flower School. In this version, Sir Topham Hatt once again directs Thomas to take the schoolchildren to some destination; however, he cautions Thomas that the children are all "fragile flowers" and he must be very careful. Thomas then sets off on his journey and inevitably crashes in some horrible fashion. I then announce, "The fragile flower children are all broken. What are we going to do about that?"

Remarkably, the solution to this dilemma is to go back to the station, collect a new batch of coaches with a new class of fragile flower children and go off to crash again.

In addition to being fragile flowers, the Fragile Flower school kids all have funny names. Daddy says their names are all palindromes---names that are the same spelled backwards as frontwards. They include: Bob, Anna, Eve, Aviva, Nan, Ava, Elle, and Emme.