{"product_id":"physics-fables-paperback","title":"Physics Fables [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFive stories, five corners of physics — from the strangeness of special relativity to the math used by bees. In Physics Fables, a tortoise named Eloise races a literal photon and discovers that light breaks the rules of relative velocity; a girl named Sakura investigates why her village's oily sea has stopped giving up its eels and ends up conversing with a mermaid about density and buoyancy; a small bee named Clemmm (the end of her name sounds like humming) invents a coordinate system to share the location of a flower meadow with her hive; a butterfly named Arnold attends what may be the last great Conclave of all animals, seeing in ultraviolet and polarized light the rest of them cannot; and a lone adventurer named Zara carries a magnetized scepter across dragon-filled lands on a planet where gravity is gentler than our own. Each story is self-contained, and each one uses real physics and connects it to our everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/8395\/8338\/files\/Sakura_and_the_Many-Layered_Sea_Paperback.pdf?v=1782319909\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Open a sample PDF story\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead a Sample Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWritten by Sarah Allen. Each story is illustrated by a different artist: Vladimir Djekic, Donna Schafer, Nathan Ranieri Moncao, and Marie Delwart. Formatted by Sue Balcer. Suitable for ages 9–12, though younger readers who love stories will find plenty to enjoy alongside a grown-up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping: This is a print-on-demand paperback. Please allow 2–3 weeks for printing and delivery. \u003c\/strong\u003eIf you need it sooner, the paperback is also available on Amazon with faster shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's inside the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eFive complete stories totaling 116 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eScience Notes woven throughout each story — sidebars explaining the physics concepts as they appear in the narrative (relative velocity and the speed of light, density and buoyancy, polar coordinates, animal color vision and perception, magnetism)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eScience Activities at the end of each story — hands-on experiments and group activities, including a three-person relative velocity experiment, a message-in-a-bottle buoyancy challenge, a full Polar Coordinates classroom activity with materials list and instructions, a bubble thin-film optics observation, and a magnet interaction experiment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAn \"About this Book\" introduction from the author explaining how to read the collection — stories first, notes when curious, activities whenever you like\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart of the Fairy Tale Physics series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eEach book in the Fairy Tale Physics series is fully self-contained and can be read in any order. Physics Fables is a short-story collection, making it a natural entry point for readers who want to sample the series or who prefer variety over a single extended narrative. Characters and creatures from across the series make quiet appearances — keep an eye out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eSarah Allen tutored math and physics for twenty years before becoming a full-time fantasy writer. She has a physics degree from the University of Washington (graduated with college and departmental honors) and a master's in Cognition and Learning from Columbia. Her goal is to write the sort of physics books she would have wanted as a kid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAges 9–12 · 116 pages · Color Illustrations · Five stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah McCarthy LLC","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":43888243048514,"sku":"9798950539022","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/8395\/8338\/files\/Shopify_FTP_Omnibus_and_Allora_1.png?v=1783558067","url":"https:\/\/shop.mathwithsarah.com\/products\/physics-fables-paperback","provider":"Math with Sarah","version":"1.0","type":"link"}