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A picture book with your child in it.

Drawn from their photo and written about their life, with the people and pets they love in it by name. Printed and delivered free, or as an eBook.

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  • Stories in 55 languages
  • Free delivery in 3 to 7 days
  • Printed locally in over 80 countries and states

Our sample books. Choose one and open it.

Eight finished books. Open any of them.

Our own sample books, each about one child. Choose a cover and turn the pages.

Their name is the smallest part of it.

A stock story with a name dropped in is easy to make. This book is drawn from the child, written about the child, and full of the child's own world.

Drawn from their photo, and the same child on every page.

One photo becomes one character, and all twelve illustrations are drawn from it, so face, hair and clothes hold from the first page to the last. Any clear photo works, even one pulled from a group shot.

a phone snap is plenty

About what is really happening in their life.

Starting school. A new baby. Moving house. The first sleepover. Learning to swim. The first night in a big bed. Nineteen of the eighty-eight subjects are about real life, and you choose the message the story carries, or let the story choose.

or magic, animals, faraway worlds, things that go

Their people and pets in it, by name and from their photos.

Up to three co-stars: a grandmother, a baby brother, the dog, the teddy, each drawn from a photo of their own. The things they are into turn up in the pictures, for them to spot.

the dinosaur t-shirt, page six

Written at their reading level, from their age, in any of 55 languages. With your name and a dedication printed on the title page.

Make it, check it, keep it.

  1. Make it

    Eight screens of choices and one photo, most of them a tap. Your work is saved as you go, and the finished book is ready to read in about fifteen minutes.

  2. Check it

    You read the whole book before it's printed, and can change anything you don't like. Retype any line yourself, or have a picture, the cover or the title redone. Then approve it.

  3. Keep it

    A printed book arrives in 3 to 7 days, delivery included, with the eBook alongside. Or choose the eBook on its own and open it the moment you approve.

The story and pictures are written and illustrated with AI from your answers and their photo. The photo is stored privately, used only to draw the character, and deleted once the illustrations are finished.

It was Monday, and Monday was the first day.

Inside, there was a peg with her name on it.

This is how reviewing works. Read it, and retype anything you would say differently.

The choices are yours.

Twelve illustration styles
Cross-hatched ink and watercolor, naturalistic colored pencil, acrylic storybook, cartoon, stop-motion clay, cut-paper collage, comic book, mid-century modern, 3D rendered, whimsical, manga and soft anime. Four of them are built to resemble the real child closely.
Eight themes, eighty-eight subjects
Magic and wonder, big adventures, animals and nature, faraway worlds, things that go, my world, special days and early learning. A theme, then a subject inside it, then the message the story carries.
Four writing styles
Classic storybook, soothing, funny, or the whole book in rhyming verse. Four lengths, from a few lines a page to a fuller read.
Fifty-five languages
The story's language is your choice, whatever language the site is in and wherever you live. A book in the family's language, for a family anywhere.
  • A4 portrait, 28 pages
  • 12 full-page illustrations, one facing each page of story
  • A title page with your name and dedication
  • Back cover and spine in their favorite color

One story. Keep it three ways.

  • eBook

    The whole book as a file, in your library the moment you approve it. Opens on a phone, tablet or computer. Available everywhere.

  • Softcover

    A printed picture book with a soft cover. The eBook comes with it. Free delivery in 3 to 7 days, wherever we print locally.

  • Hardcover

    The same book inside, with a hard cover. The eBook comes with it. Free delivery in 3 to 7 days, wherever we print locally.

The eBook is the same file the printer receives, not a preview. Softcover and hardcover are identical inside.

  • You read the whole book before it's printed, and can change anything you don't like.
  • Any line can be rewritten by you. Every version is kept.
  • Their photo is stored privately and deleted once the illustrations are drawn.
  • The price shown is the price paid. Delivery is included on every printed book.
  • Printed locally and delivered in 3 to 7 days, with a tracking link by email.

And after that.

  • Add an audiobook for the nights nobody can read aloud. The whole book read by Willow, Violet, Grace, Pip, Archie or Alfie. You hear the narrator before they record.
  • It stays in your library. Read it again online, download it, or share it by link with someone who has no account.
  • Order it again. Extra copies of a printed book cost less than the first, for the cousins and the other grandparents.

Their book starts here.

Eight questions and one photo. Ready to read in about fifteen minutes, and yours to check before a page is printed.

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