Kids Steampunk

In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinson's unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter's mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business. Far off on Flaster Isle, famed inventor Horace Flasterborn plans to take Walter under his wing. When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, he and the moody one-eyed girl next door run away and journey through a strange landscape of fish-people, giantess miners, and hypnotized honeybees.

I was living the life of a normal 10-year-old, when it all changed. The very moment it all changed you ask? I would say it was the moment I escaped my bully named Bull. But it could be the moment I ran through Binx. One minute I was just Rocky, and the next I was the savior of humanity. Join us as we travel through time, to collect all the pieces, to keep Mr. Moon, the diabolical genius, locked away. If we fail the world as we know it, will be gone. Oh, and mystical creatures, zombies, and the Angel Of Death himself, are all a part of the journey.

Like clockwork, the past always comes back around. When larceny is the family business, it's hard to make a clean break. Reformed cat-burglar Nyssa Glass has finally gotten her life back together. She has her own electrical repair shop, a boyfriend who adores her, and for once, no one is trying to have her arrested. When the shop door rings, though, a man she hoped to never see again threatens to ruin everything.

When Butch Faro's gang of merciless killers threatens the sleepy Texas town of Sandy Creek, it will take the performers of Professor Phineas Proctor's traveling circus, their golden hued robot-gunfighter, and a brave Mexican blacksmith to thwart their plans and save the town.

The creator of My Liddle Peony, Mommy's Liddle Helper, and the Modest Liddle Bloomerguards, to name only a few of his many inventions, is first encountered through the memories of his wife, Letitica Liddle, in The Flight to Brassbright. But many years before, Gerard was a young kid growing up in the idyllic town of Quartz Corners, and already toying around with his very first inventions. Learn more about this prolific inventor's early days through four amazing inventive adventures.

In a country called Industralia, children listen to a New Year's story about Frostica, an engineer, and a magical train pulled by engine number 19.