CHILDREN and staff at The Beeches Pre-School, Malpas celebrated World Book Day by wearing fancy dress after gaining inspiration from a Thomas the Tank Engine book.

The youngsters dressed up as ‘people who help us’ leading to a selection of nurses, firefighters, doctors, postal workers, police officers and even a hairdresser.

The theme came from the Early Years book Thomas to the Rescue.

World Book Day gives staff the chance to talk to the children about their favourite books and bedtime stories and traditional tales still number among their top reads – with Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs coming out on top.