Your Child and the Dinosaurs

4.8/5.0(13,837 reviews)

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  • See the full book free in about 30 sec
  • Your child in every scene and rhyme
  • 22 colourful pages, hardcover
  • Printed to order, 5 to 7 working days

🦖 Your child zips up a dinosaur suit and sets off to help sleepy dinosaurs — tucking in wings, brushing teeth and finding the softest fern bed.

🌙 Gentle rhymes turn familiar bedtime jobs into a prehistoric adventure. Once every dinosaur is settled, your little helper heads home for a goodnight of their own.

£24.95

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 22-page picture book, 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 working days door to door within the United Kingdom, 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.
    Helen Z.
  • 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.
    Margaret B.
  • 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.
    Tom R.
  • We have about four thousand photos of that first Christmas and not one of them gets looked at. This gets looked at every week.
    Priya S.
  • 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.
    Marcus D.
  • 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.
    Claire N.

How it works

  1. Upload a photo

    One child, face clearly visible. The photo does not have to be perfect: you see the result before you decide.

  2. See the character

    Less than 30 seconds later the character is drawn in the style of the book, from that photo.

  3. 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.

Reading together

  • An example of reading together: a parent and child share a picture book on the sofa.
  • An example of a bedtime reading moment by a bedside lamp.
  • An example of a family sharing a picture book on the living-room floor.

Drawn from your photo

The character keeps the face, hair and colouring of the child in the photograph, drawn in the book's own style.

The character drawn from it
An example photo

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.

Another, same child
One page

Printed to order

Hardcover, thick paper, printed for one child once the order is placed, then shipped straight out.

Read at the kitchen table
Bound and trimmed

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

    Hardcover, thick paper, made for one child once the order is placed. A book, not a printout.

What buyers said

4.8

13,837 reviews

There are more reviews than fit here.

  • A dinosaur adventure with my child at the center

    My child is in a dinosaur phase, so this was an easy choice. Seeing the adventure built around them made the book feel extra special, and we ended up talking about dinosaurs long after we finished reading.
    Marie BToledo, OHYour Child and the Dinosaurs
  • He keeps finding new details

    The dinosaur scenes give us plenty to look at together. My son loves naming the dinosaurs and imagining what happens next, and he is always keen to go back and look through the pages again.
    Jenny GLong Beach, CAYour Child and the Dinosaurs
  • A gift for our little dinosaur fan

    I wanted something more personal than another dinosaur toy, and this made story time feel like its own adventure. It was fun to read together and gave us a new favorite topic to talk about.
    Elbert KSeattle, WAYour Child and the Dinosaurs

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 working days to a UK 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.