Welcome, Brave Adventurer, to the Realm of Fairy Tale Physics!
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You've got access to 50+ posts — books, worksheets, games, activities, and bonus stories. This page helps you find your footing. Browse by age, by topic, or follow the guided path from beginning to end.
Since you’re subscribed, you should have access to everything I’ve made and will make in the future, for free! Message/email me if there’s anything you can’t find!
The Guided Path
Want to go through everything in a thoughtful order? Follow this sequence. Each item builds naturally on the last. Most of it can be done independently — the optional activities are best done with a caregiver or helper since they require supplies.
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Newton’s Laws: A Fairy Tale (2nd Edition)
The best place to start. Introduces forces through story.
Practice what you learned
Allora and the Puzzles of Archimedes
Levers, pulleys, and friction — told as an adventure story.
After chapter 2: Ostomachion puzzle printable
After Friction Explorer (optional) Calculating Friction Worksheet
Archimedes Puzzle Book workbook: End-of-book companion. Puzzles and problems to go deeper.
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Abigail's Totally Purposeful Definitely Not Accidental or Dangerous Pendulum Adventure
Bonus chapter companion to Gravity.
Make a Galilean Telescope optional activity
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
Starlight Starship workbook Patreon
3D shapes and the inverse square law. An interstellar voyage.
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Interactive math game. Play in browser.
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The Case of the Seven Reflections
Fairy detective optics mystery game. Play in browser.
The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Photon
A physics fable about special relativity.
The Emperor Butterfly's New Clothes
From Physics Fables the book.
Art with Optics! (optional activity)
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
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The Sorceress of Circuits Patreon
Interactive electricity game. Play in browser.
Gerald and the Many Unsettling Details
Bonus story about the photoelectric effect
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Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea
A physics fable about density.
The Hopeful Queen of the Clockwork Court: Fairy Tale Physics
A full fairy tale physics novel with explanations of siphons, Archimedes’ screw, pressure, buoyancy, the Venturi effect, and more, plus a review puzzle on pendulums and a bit of probability
Make a Galilean Thermometer optional activity
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
Clemmm and the Polar Coordinates
A physics fable about math and coordinate systems. A lovely place to end.
Browse by Topic
Teaching a specific unit? Jump straight to what you need.
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Newton’s Laws: A Fairy Tale (2nd Edition)
The best place to start. Introduces forces through story.
Practice what you learned
Allora and the Puzzles of Archimedes
Levers, pulleys, and friction — told as an adventure story.
After chapter 2: Ostomachion puzzle printable
After Friction Explorer (optional) Calculating Friction Worksheet
Archimedes Puzzle Book workbook: End-of-book companion. Puzzles and problems to go deeper.
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Abigail's Totally Purposeful Definitely Not Accidental or Dangerous Pendulum Adventure
Bonus chapter companion to Gravity.
Make a Galilean Telescope optional activity
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
Starlight Starship workbook Patreon
3D shapes and the inverse square law. An interstellar voyage.
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The Case of the Seven Reflections
Fairy detective optics mystery game. Play in browser.
The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Photon
A physics fable about special relativity.
The Emperor Butterfly's New Clothes
From Physics Fables the book.
Art with Optics! (optional activity)
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
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The Sorceress of Circuits Patreon
Interactive electricity game. Play in browser.
Gerald and the Many Unsettling Details
Bonus story about the photoelectric effect
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Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea
A physics fable about density.
The Hopeful Queen of the Clockwork Court
A full fairy tale physics novel (a greatly expanded rewrite of the 1st edition of the fluid mechanics fairy tale). Covers siphons, buoyancy, pressure, the Venturi effect, Archimedes’s screw, and has a review puzzle on pendulums, a bit about thermal expansion, and a bit about probability
Fluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale (1st edition)
A short fairy tale followed by a math heavy explanation of fluid mechanics, with derivations of formulas and practice problems
Make a Galilean Thermometer optional activity
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
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Clemmm and the Polar Coordinates
One of the Physics Fables
Play in browser
Inverse Square Law and 3D Shapes
The Stick Figure Physics Tutorials
Example problems and explanations with high school level math
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More coming soon
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Classic practice problems in a story
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Classic practice problems in a story
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Browse by Age
Not sure where to start? Pick an age range and dive in.
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Physics Fables (short stories, one topic each)
The Wayfarer's Scepter · Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea · The Tortoise, the Hare, and the Photon · Clemmm and the Polar Coordinates -
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Quest Worksheets · Fairy Tale Physics Books · Adventure Workbooks · All games · The full guided path with math
Download the Books
The books and Physics Fables stories are available individually above, but you can also find the links to the Patreon posts where you can download the full books here.
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Click here to view the patreon post where you can download the PDF and ebook (It should be free to you, if you’re subscribed.)
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A full-length middle grade novel in the Fairy Tale Physics series. This was originally the Fluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale story, which I’ve expanded (it’s about 5x as long now). It includes much more physics (Toricelli’s law, the Venturi effect), more puzzles, and a new ending.
It covers pressure, siphons, buoyancy, the Venturi effect, some history of timekeeping and how it relates to physics, and some probability.