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Books in Fairy Tale Science series

  • Fairy Science

    Ashley Spires

    Hardcover (Crown Books for Young Readers, Sept. 10, 2019)
    An enchanting STEM-and-fairy-filled picture book from the award-winning author-illustrator of The Most Magnificent Thing!All the fairies in Pixieville believe in magic--except Esther. She believes in science.When a forest tree stops growing, all the fairies are stumped--including Esther. But not for long! Esther knows that science can get to the root of the problem--and its solution! Whether you believe in fairy magic or the power of science, you will be charmed by Esther, the budding fairy scientist.
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  • Making a Pulley System for Rapunzel

    Nikole Brooks Bethea

    Hardcover (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers build their own pulley system to help Rapunzel avoid having her hair pulled. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science behind pulleys.
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  • Making a Raft for the Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Sue Gagliardi

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers construct and test their own rafts to help the three billy goats avoid the troll. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science of buoyancy.
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  • Making a Bridge for the Gingerbread Man

    Sue Gagliardi

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers construct and test their own bridges to help the Gingerbread Man escape a fox. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of bridges.
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  • Making a Windproof House for the Three Little Pigs

    Sue Gagliardi

    Hardcover (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers construct and test their own houses to help the three little pigs survive a wolf attack. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of houses.
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  • Making a Pulley System for Rapunzel

    Nikole Brooks Bethea

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers build their own pulley system to help Rapunzel avoid having her hair pulled. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science behind pulleys.
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  • Making a Witch Trap for Hansel and Gretel

    Joanne Mattern

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers construct and test their own box trap to help Hansel and Gretel trap the witch. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of box traps.
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  • Growing a Beanstalk for Jack

    Joanne Mattern

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers grow their own bean plants to help Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science of plants.
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  • Solid, Liquid, Gassy!

    Ashley Spires

    Hardcover (Crown Books for Young Readers, Sept. 8, 2020)
    Fairy scientist Esther is experimenting with the water cycle in this enchanting STEM-and-magic-filled follow-up to Fairy Science, a picture book from the award-winning author-illustrator of The Most Magnificent Thing!When a pond dries up, fairy scientist Esther doesn't freeze under the pressure. She and her friends go full steam ahead for to make a scientific discovery! Bestselling author Ashley Spires (The Most Magnificent Thing) creates a charming primer to the water cycle. Includes an at-home water experiment for the budding scientist in your house!
  • Making a Windproof House for the Three Little Pigs

    Sue Gagliardi

    Paperback (Focus Readers, Jan. 1, 2020)
    Readers construct and test their own houses to help the three little pigs survive a wolf attack. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, and infographics, this book provides an engaging overview of the science and engineering of houses.
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  • Tam Lin

    Pamela Dean, Thomas Canty

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Books, April 15, 1992)
    This Scottish-based tale for adults offers a pregnant heroine who must rescue the man who seduced her in the woods from his captor, the Fairie Queen
  • Science in Fairy Tales. The Raindrop. Nauka v skazkah. Dozhdinka: Bilingual Illustrated Book in English and Russian. For children between 3 and 7 years old.

    Dr. Svetlana Bagdasaryan

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 25, 2015)
    "Science in Fairy Tales" is a series of a short fairy stories about the main natural phenomena told in a way that is easily understandable by kids. The stories are bilingual. We use simple phrases to make the book easy to understand for little kids. Having read this fairy tale, children will learn that water in nature can occur in three states: liquid, solid and vapor. http://www.mygrandmastales.com/
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