Welcome to the Map of the Realm!
Here you'll find everything I've made: illustrated stories, browser games, worksheets, and hands-on activities, covering forces, gravity, light, electricity, fluids, magnetism, math, and more. Browse by topic, by age, or follow the guided path from beginning to end.
You don't need all of it, and nothing depends on anything else. The books can be read in any order, the games stand completely on their own, and every piece is designed to drop into the classes you're already teaching. Take a single story for one unit, a game for another, and leave the rest. There's no required sequence.
(If you do want a structured sequence, there’s the Guided Path, which is an optional recommended reading/playing order.)
How to get it: There are some free samples just below. Everything is for sale in my shop, or available with a Patreon membership, which has a 7-day free trial so you can look through everything before deciding. Paperbacks and audiobooks are on Amazon.
Peek Through the Wardrobe Door
(Free samples of my work to try)
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A short physics fable about density, buoyancy, and a very determined young scientist. A lovely place to start.
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A longer illustrated story about levers, pulleys, and friction — told as a fantasy adventure. (The companion worksheet and puzzle book are available on Patreon.)
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Get a taste of the interactive electricity game. Play the opening chapter in your browser, no download needed.
(Only formatted for computers, not phones)
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 read or played independently — the optional activities are best done with a parent or helper since they require supplies. Patreon members get access to the full path; paperback editions are noted where available.
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An introduction to Newton's laws, levers, pulleys, and friction, told through two illustrated stories with worksheets and a friction simulation to practice along the way.
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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How gravity works and what it means for orbits, pendulums, and the night sky, with a story, a bonus chapter, a telescope-building project, and a workbook on the inverse square law.
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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A short, playful break to practice scientific notation as an interactive browser game before moving on.
Interactive math game. Play in browser.
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Reflection, relativity, and the strange behavior of light, explored through a story, two physics fables, an optics mystery game, and an optional art project.
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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How circuits and current work, taught through an interactive game you play in the browser, plus a bonus story on the photoelectric effect.
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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Density, buoyancy, and coordinate systems, told through fables and a thermometer-building project, ending on a gentle story about the math of mapping space.
Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea
A physics fable about density.
Fluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale (2nd edition) Coming Soon
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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An introduction to Newton's laws, levers, pulleys, and friction, told through two illustrated stories with worksheets and a friction simulation to practice along the way.
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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How gravity works and what it means for orbits, pendulums, and the night sky, with a story, a bonus chapter, a telescope-building project, and a workbook on the inverse square law.
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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Reflection, relativity, and the strange behavior of light, explored through a story, two physics fables, an optics mystery game, and an optional art project.
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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How circuits and current work, taught through an interactive game you play in the browser, plus a bonus story on the photoelectric effect.
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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Density and buoyancy told through fables and a thermometer-building project
Sakura and the Many-Layered Sea
A physics fable about density.
Fluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale (2nd edition) Coming Soon
Make a Galilean Thermometer optional activity
Requires supplies. Best done with a parent.
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A mix of story-based math, browser games, and workbooks spanning scientific notation, algebra, 3D shapes, and high school physics problem-solving.
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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A story introducing magnetism through the idea of a compass and direction-finding, with more material on the way.
More coming soon
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Classic energy practice problems wrapped in a story-driven worksheet, with more coming soon.
Classic practice problems in a story
More coming soon
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Classic momentum practice problems presented as a story-based quest worksheet.
Classic practice problems in a story
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One-dimensional motion practice in story form, with more on the way.
More coming soon
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More coming soon
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Three interactive browser simulations exploring wave types and the Doppler effect, all free to play.
Browse by Age
Not sure where to start? Pick an age range and dive in. Links go to Patreon, where you can access content as a member or find individual items.
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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 -
Full Guided Path · Physics Fables ·Fairy Tale Physics books· Adventure Workbooks · Browser games (Scientific Notation Quest)· Art Projects (with Parent)
Paperbacks: Physics Fables, Fairy Tale Physics
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Quest Worksheets · Fairy Tale Physics Books· Adventure Workbooks · All games · The full guided path with math
Paperbacks: Physics Fables,Fairy Tale Physics