Best steampunk book I've seen for kids, friends, your boss, and steam punk / inventors geek love .. Thaddeus the Boss, by Heather Theurer

http://www.heathertheurer.com/index.php

that is the first couple pages after you open it, so you can see how it begins

the story line is that Thadeus (the kid) wants to be a "boss" like his dad, and this tells how he tries and learns how difficult it is to be a boss, and what the things a boss has to do for the people he is a boss of.

one of the great things about Heather's art and design is the TERRIFIC details and inventions she displays throughout the book, like the pacifier with a dB meter

Every day the dad goes to work in a new way, but a Motor Wheel? How Cool!

the above reminds me of the big car in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... notice the engine horsepower call out on the exhaust?

Steampunk baby buggy!

this is so cool, Heather wrote up a great amount of things that you can get your kids to think about or discuss, even go back through the book and look for

http://www.heathertheurer.com/index.php

http://www.amazon.com/Thaddeus-Boss-Heather-Theurer/dp/0982613784

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/thaddeus-the-boss/id512785971?mt=11

http://www.epbot.com/2012/03/saturday-steam-31712.html

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an octopus on a pennyfarthing, and riding in a steam car... I love Steam Punk!

this book is fun! Great gift idea, no one is going to expect it, everyone will enjoy it!  For the art from the book: http://www.bkartonline.com/subgallery-page/otto-and-victoria/

From Brian Kesinger http://www.bkartonline.com/  and his facebook is https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-Kesingers-Tea-Girls/212094505475204 

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Whoa, steam locomotive lovers are gonna want this!

It's a 4 ton BBQ, from "Tvoryukami" - a group that is based in a small village near Ryazan Deulino and is known for its visionary and creative scope

Original source: http://www.bbqmag.ru/newnum.html?article=497#.UhwBYhtQEXy

I found it on http://www.epbot.com/2013/04/saturday-steam-42013.html

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In the "What If?" world of concept art, here are retro-Soviet punk creations of and artist that goes by the handle "600v" on deviantART

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/06/26/your-daily-dose-of-unlimited-retro-sovietpunk-imagination/ from 600v's page http://600v.deviantart.com/gallery/

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Diego and the Steam Pirates, the Collide Escape world of Armand Baltazar

the book is going to be printed and for sale before Christmas
http://www.armandbaltazar.com/collidescape/

Diego and the Steam-Pirates is an adventure story taking place after earth has been extraordinarily changed by a time fragmentation and collision: layers of time from prehistory to the near-distant future have been mashed together.

This is a world where dinosaurs have reappeared, where people and places all throughout earth’s history exist simultaneously, where pirate raiders, mysterious sea captains and their robots roam the vast inland seas in steam-driven ships.

 Master artist and storyteller Armand Baltazar takes you on an epic voyage to another world, mysteriously similar to our own.

It's made from a 1953 Fordson Golden Jubilee tractor

It's a Bentley Blower!

important note, in the above and below images steam locomotives are powering tugboats and buildings... the basic premise of the storyline is that nothing more complex than steam powered generators are operating.

Nothing with circuit cards, transistors, vacuum tubes, etc... just knife switches, Tesla era generators, etc. So with no city power grid, diesel turbos, and the rest of the modern tech, people had to adapt old power methods to keep cities going.

 So, steam power..., and the most common steam powered generators are old locomotives

http://www.armandbaltazar.com/collidescape/

 Just a moment to appreciate the incredible talented artist that created this, Armand is the incredible artist that has been the senior design concept genius behind Cars 2 with Pixar, but also worked at Disney Feature Animation, and his credits include the scenes of The Prince of Egypt, The Road to Eldorado, Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron, Sinbad, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, The Bee Movie, Princess and the Frog, and A Christmas Carol http://www.armandbaltazar.com/animation.htm

 Armand is another of the incredible Art Center College of Design graduates that I frequently celebrate here on this blog

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Steampunk Isetta 300 from "Diego and the Steam Pirates" of Armand Baltazar Studios

http://www.armandbaltazar.com/collidescape/

Just a moment to appreciate the incredible talented artist that created this, Armand is the incredible artist that has been the senior design concept genius behind Cars 2 with Pixar, but also worked at Disney Feature Animation, and his credits include the scenes of The Prince of Egypt, The Road to Eldorado, Spirit Stallion of the Cimmaron, Sinbad, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, The Bee Movie, Princess and the Frog, and A Christmas Carol http://www.armandbaltazar.com/animation.htm

Armand is another of the incredible Art Center College of Design graduates that I frequently celebrate here on this blog, 

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