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
- 22 colourful pages, hardcover
- Printed to order, 5 to 7 working days
🕯️ A glowing lantern leads your child through a meadow, past a sunset lake and friendly forest animals, all the way home to bed.
🙏 Gentle rhymes, a bedtime prayer and New King James Bible verses bring gratitude, kindness and reassurance home — ending with a blessing as your child sleeps.
£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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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A little light for the big feelings
We read Little Lantern on evenings when everything feels a bit overwhelming. The gentle story gives us a quiet moment together, and my child loves following the lantern through the pages.
She wants to read it by herself
The illustrations are lovely and the story has such a comforting feel. My daughter now reaches for it when she wants a calm story, and she enjoys pointing out her favorite details each time.
A thoughtful bedtime story
I like that the story feels gentle without being dull. We have made it part of our bedtime routine, and the lantern gives my son something familiar to look for on every read.
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.