An example. Your child's name and face go here.
- See the full book free in about 30 sec
- Your child in every scene and rhyme
- 24 colorful pages, soft or hardcover
- Printed in the USA, 5 to 7 business days
π¦ Late in the dark wood, your child walks past the rabbit, the mouse, the fox and the bear, and says goodnight to every one of them.
π A story that shows: when the moon calls, everyone lies down, even the biggest bear. And last of all, your child.
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Can I see it first?
Yes. Upload one photo, wait less than 30 seconds, and the finished book opens in front of you, cover and pages. Nothing is charged before that.
How the photo is used
Photos kept only for the preview expire under our preview cleanup policy. When you continue to checkout, your photo and book details are copied to a private archive and retained indefinitely for making your book and future reprints. They are not used to train models.
What you get
A 24-page picture book, softcover or hardcover, with your child drawn as the character on every page and their name printed through the story rather than on the cover alone.
Delivery
Printed and bound to order, then shipped. 5 to 7 business days door to door within the United States, for a flat $6.95.
What buyers said
She spotted herself on the second page and went completely quiet, then asked me to read it again straight away. It has not left her bed since.
I ordered it for my grandson three days before Christmas and had no faith it would arrive. It did, and his mother cried before he did.
I was fully prepared for the face to be almost right and slightly wrong. It is not. It is him, in a way I did not think a machine could manage.
We have about four thousand photos of that first Christmas and not one of them gets looked at. This gets looked at every week.
The bit that got me was his name printed inside the story rather than stuck on the cover. He thinks the book was written about him, and I am not correcting him.
I read the whole thing twice before I paid, which is the only reason I paid. Everyone else wanted the money first and a photo of my daughter with it.
How it works
Upload a photo
One child, face clearly visible. The photo does not have to be perfect: you see the result before you decide.
See the character
Less than 30 seconds later the character is drawn in the style of the book, from that photo.
Read it together
The whole book opens on screen. Make it again if it is not right, buy it if it is, and read the printed one with them.
The book being read
A mother reads the first page to the child on the sofa, the meadow and the rabbit open on their laps. A father reads the pond page at bedtime, the book open in the lamplight. A grandmother and the child on the living-room floor with the last page, the bedroom, open between them.
Drawn from your photo
The character keeps the face, hair and coloring of the child in the photograph, drawn in the book's own style.
As seen in
On every page
The character is placed into each scene of the book, not only onto the cover, which is the part that makes a child look for themselves on the next page, and read on to find out.
Printed to order
Softcover or hardcover, thick paper, printed for one child once the order is placed, then shipped straight out.
What this book is
What is true of every title in this shop.
Your child on every page
The character is drawn from the photograph and appears in each scene, not only on the cover. Their name runs through the text.
The book they read with you
Research suggests children smile, talk and stay with a story more when it is about them. A child who wants the book open is the child who starts reading it back to you.
A printed book
Softcover or hardcover, thick paper, made for one child once the order is placed. A book, not a printout.
What buyers said
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Bedtime routine finally fixed
My daughter doesn't like admitting she's tired, which made bedtime a negotiation every night. Seeing herself as the last one awake, going on a whole adventure nobody else sees, she's decided that's a good thing. We're done negotiating.
He noticed his freckles
There's a specific cluster of freckles on my son's nose. They're on every spread. He studied the first page for a long time, then looked up and said "they got me right." He's five.
It's been on three sleepovers
She packed it for every sleepover since. She introduced it to her cousin. The cousin wants one now.
She says goodnight to the animals now
Every night after the last page she names the animals from the story and says goodnight to each one. We didn't teach her this. She just started.
She says 'I'm the last one awake' at every bedtime
It's a thing. She says it like it's a title she's earned. We say it back. The whole family says it now. A picture book rewrote our bedtime vocabulary and I think that's extraordinary.
The nighttime illustrations are genuinely beautiful
I sit with her when we read it not just to be there but because I actually want to see the next spread. The art is warm and careful in a way I did not expect from a personalized book.
He asked if there would be a second one
He finished it and asked what happens next. I said that's the end. He said "but what does he do next Tuesday?" I did not have an answer. He has accepted the mystery.
She brought it to the hospital
We were in the hospital for two nights with her little brother, and she packed this in her overnight bag. She read it to him in the crib. The nurses asked about it. I told them where to get it.
Worth every dollar for what it did at bedtime
I was skeptical at the price. Then I had three nights in a row with no resistance and no tears and I stopped being skeptical. It paid for itself before the end of the first week.
The quality held up for a boy of five
Three months of nightly use and the book looks almost new. He is not gentle. The binding and pages have held up completely. That matters as much to me as the art.
Questions
What makes a good photo?
One child, face clearly visible, roughly facing the camera. No side profiles, nothing covering the face.
What age is this for?
From their first picture books to about eight, and it works differently at each end. At two they point at themselves on the page. At four they ask for it again. At six they read the words back to you. Each book says the ages it was written for.
What happens to the photo?
Photos kept only for the preview expire under our preview cleanup policy. When you continue to checkout, your photo and book details are copied to a private archive and retained indefinitely for making your book and future reprints. They are not used to train models.
Can the character be drawn again?
Yes, and you can say what should be different before it is.
Is the story different for each child?
The story stays the same. The name and the character change with the child.
How long does delivery take?
5 to 7 business days to a US address, printing and binding included, because every book is made after it is ordered. Order a little ahead of a birthday.
What about returns?
A book made for one child cannot be resold, so it cannot be returned on a change of mind. That is why you read every page before paying. If it arrives damaged or wrong, we replace it: write to us.