Steampunk

Constance is a wild, stubborn young girl growing up poor in a small industrial town in the late 1800's. Beneath her thread-worn exterior beats the heart of a dreamer and a wordsmith. But at age twelve, she’s orphaned. Running away to join the circus—like kids do in adventure books—seems like such a brilliant idea… or is it?

It’s a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there’s a will and, some smarts, there just might be a way.

In a country called Industralia, children listen to a New Year's story about Frostica, the Engineer, and a magical train pulled by Engine No.19.

Gerard Liddle is a young kid growing up in the late 1800s in the idyllic town of Quartz Corners. He's already tinkering around with his very first inventions - which sometimes work, and sometimes do unexpected things.

Now you can make the favorite foods of the fictional country of Industralia, from breakfast right on through to late night snacks. You’ll even learn how to make traditional New Year's “Coal Week” holiday treats.

When the pneumatic mail service goes awry, that next tube you open may not contain a message meant for you. Four letters have gone down the wrong tubes and have landed in the wrong hands. How the recipients of these letters react to these unexpected messages leads to multiple misunderstandings, happy accidents, an occasional disaster, and new friendships.