The Shapesquare Stories

This bundle contains a collection of related short stories (fairy tales the length of book chapters) focused on the topic of basic shapes.

In Shapesong, King Triangle has suddenly declared that everything and everyone should be a Triangle! Many shapes try to comply, for they don’t want to break the law and be punished. But the more they try to create triangular soccer fields, and triangular homes, or even triangular heads … the more they realize this isn’t a great plan. And what’s up with those mysterious shapes cut out of the environment? Might those ancient stones be the answer?

Follow a diverse set of Rebelshapes on a shape-related adventure as they try to battle the evil King Triangle!

Enjoyed these adventures and want more? No worries! Our shape-related games regularly include King Triangle or the Rebelshapes (animals shaped suspiciously like a basic shape) in the rules and material! Check the “Continue Exploring” section in this topic.

You might also want to check out Chronicles of the Colorblind. It’s the same idea, but exploring one basic color per story. That one has slightly longer stories and more grown-up themes (about emotion and making mistakes); the Shapesquare Stories sticks a bit more to whimsical stories suitable to very young ages.

Fun fact (and very light spoilers):

• The Piqarine Painter, from the escape room with the same name, appears here!
• Tessella and her Toolbox also first appeared here. There’s a large number of products within the project called “Tessella’s Toolbox”, but the Tricksy Tangrams is a good start.
• A very young version of our magical easter bunny, called Astra Buni, also appears here. You can find more from her in our Tales of Easter bundle.

Continue Exploring

Exhausted this resource? Below is a list of all resources (in this and other factions) around this same topic.

• The Shapesquare Stories
• Court of King Triangle
• Defend the Palishapes!
• Fortis
• Game of Shapelock
• Pentomino Games
• Shapastimes
• Shapeways
• Spinnershapes
• Strateshape
• Tangram Games
• Jigsaw Puzzlepack
• Potent Pentominoes
• Shapelings
• Tricksy Tangrams
• Quiz of Shape
• The Treasure of Squaro
• The Colorshape Tests
• My First Shapes
• Shape Animal Cards
• Shapeseeing

Product Contents

Below is a summary of this product's contents. The actual product might have even more inside, but never less.

• 15 short stories (“chapters”) about Shapesong ruled by evil King Triangle
• The stories are included as a .pdf file (most suitable for printing) and .epub file (most suitable for ereaders).
• The PDF has pages in “Half Letter” format (near A5; typical for books), but any computer system should allow printing 2 pages at once on a single A4/Letter page.
• Bingo Cards (for Apprentices to cross off things that appear as they listen to the story)