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¦ At bedtime, your child steps into a world of gentle giants, where a baby dinosaur hatches and even the T. rex is only laughing.
π A story that shows: the best games need no winner. Then the giants lie down to sleep, and so does your little explorer.
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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 parent and child read the book together in the corner of the sofa. A child reads the book alone in a big armchair, seen over the shoulder.
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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He's been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since
He liked dinosaurs before. Now he has opinions about which ones were faster. The book is responsible for this and I'm choosing to be grateful.
Grandpa sat with him for forty minutes
My dad is not an easy man to impress. He sat with my son and went through every page, asking questions about each spread. First book they've read together. My son now calls it "the one Grandpa likes."
He says he's not scared because he's been there
There's a whole arc where the boy stands next to very large things without flinching. My son has decided this happened to him. His answer to anything scary now is "I walked with the giants, I'm fine."
He drew his own dinosaur afterward
He came to me with a drawing after bedtime. It was a dinosaur standing next to a small boy. The boy had his hair. He said it was them. I framed it.
It replaced every other book at bedtime
He has a shelf of books. This one lives on the nightstand now. The others have not moved in three weeks.
The expressions they gave him are perfect
My son has a very particular face when he's determined: a small frown and a set jaw. It's on every spread. My husband noticed it before I pointed it out. That says everything about how accurate this is.
He narrates the dinosaurs at the dinner table
He has assigned names and backstories to each one. The brachiosaurus is named Gerald. Gerald made a decision on page four that my son strongly disagrees with. They have worked through it.
His teacher asked where we got it
He brought it for book week. His teacher emailed me to ask where we ordered it. Three other families have now ordered one. I feel responsible for this in a good way.
Perfect gift for a boy of seven
I've given personalized books before and they're usually a hit for a week. This one has lasted months. He still brings it to us. The dinosaur hook makes it feel urgent in a way a regular book doesn't.
The hardcover is worth paying for
I paid extra for the hardcover and it shows. The pages are thick, the cover art is beautiful, and after four months of daily use it still looks almost new. Get the hardcover.
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.