Ten Cents' Busy Day is an original storybook published in 1990 by Heinemann, written by Fiona Hardwick and illustrated by Anna Kiernan.
Plot
The story focuses on a normal day for Ten Cents as he does jobs around the harbour with the other tugboats and ships.
Characters
- Ten Cents
- Big Mac
- O.J.
- Warrior
- Hercules
- Sunshine
- Zorran
- Lillie Lightship
- Captain Star (cameo)
- S.S. Vienna (cameo)
An anthropomorphic sun appears observing the tugs.
Trivia
- This book is aimed at a much younger audience than the Tugs TV series itself actually was, with simple wording and illustrations.
- Top Hat is the only one of the Star Tugs not to appear in this book.
- Zorran is the only Z-Stack to appear in this book.
Goofs
- Zorran is shown with only one tooth, when he is supposed to have two. The one tooth is also shown in the centre just like Sunshine's.
- The front cover incorrectly depicts Ten Cents as a harbour tug, while in reality he is supposed to be a harbour switcher.
- For unknown reasons, nearly all of the splash rails on the characters are yellow.
- Ten Cents is missing his lifeboat in every illustration except the last one, and the front cover.
- Ten Cents, Sunshine, Big Mac and Warrior's whistles all appear to have eyes and noses, although the former is the only tug whose whistle has a face in the TV series.
- Lillie Lightship's eyeshadow is purple instead of blue.
- The eagle on Ten Cents' wheelhouse is white.
- Warrior's fire hose is missing.
Gallery
Back cover
Spine
Ten Cents, Sunshine and O.J.
Ten Cents and Lillie
Ten Cents and Big Mac
Big Mac, S.S Vienna, Ten Cents and Hercules
Zorran causing trouble for Ten Cents
Warrior's garbage spills on Zorran
Ten Cents and Sunshine
Ten Cents is proud of himself