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Title: The Steamkettle Kids Save the Day
Subtitle: The Legends and Adventures of Industralia, Book 1
Author: Lori Alden Holuta
Narrator: Lisa Hicks
Format: Unabridged
Length: 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-30-17
Publisher: Lori Alden Holuta
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. 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.
Members Reviews:
A delightful, bite-sized treat for children, especially well-read ones, that delivers adventure!
From jbgarner58.wordpress.com:
It has been a busy week at Starving Author LLC but I guaranteed a review and thus it shall be! To accommodate my busy eating schedule, todayâs Starving Review will be for a little treat of a childrenâs meal, a one-course snack that comes out of the steampunk kitchen of previous Starving Review chef, Lori Alden Holuta. Will todayâs meal match up to previous bites or will it be insufficient to quiet my stomach grumbles?
Before we find out, remember to check the factory rules and be safe at reviewing:
1. I attempt to rate every book from the perspective of a fan of the genre
2. I attempt to make every review as spoiler-free as possible
As Kids is a short story aimed for a younger audience than the previous meal from this same chef, we have to examine it through a different set of tastebuds. Still, despite the format change, Mrs. Holuta continues to capture both a sense of adventure and that intangible âlived-inâ feeling that are essential to such a tale. There is a conscious effort, I feel, to make the tale a bit fantastical while still leaving it grounded to something that a child can relate too. Itâs a delicate balance, but I feel the chef keeps that even keel for the whole tale.
Our two protagonists are quite likable and relatable. From my own experiences with children that age, they share a proper degree of precociousness, cunning, and mischievousness to feel like they are quite real. Never underestimate a ten-year oldâs power to get both into trouble and out of it, I tell you! As you should expect from the single course, the secondary characters receive minimal fluffing out but that lived-in feeling helps keep them from feeling actually cardboard. You get the feeling that there is more to them that the chef doesnât have time to fluff up.
If there is any flaw I can feel safe pointing out, it is a combination of length and language. The first I chalk up to my own personal tastes. I prefer longer meals with more courses so I can sink my teeth into the world and the characters so I must write that off. The second might be more valid, as Kids is fairly verbose for the target age group, but even that really isnât much of an issue, considering that I know ten-year-olds that can devour all of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson with minimal effort. Still, itâs something to keep in mind when gauging getting this for children you have or know.
To sum up, The Steamkettle Kids Save The Day! is a delightful, bite-sized treat for children, especially well-read ones, that delivers adventure and a solid world! If your intended little tyke is a talented reader or into steampunk titles, you should definitely pick this up for them and take a look at the rest of the chefâs work.