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Three choices. One hero.

Here’s how a storybook gets made, from first choice to finished book. A few minutes to make. Kept for years.

The hero standing on an open storybook, looking up at a star

Chapter one

Pick the look.

Every story starts with the hero. This time, it’s them.

Make the hero, two ways.

A photo of a young child

From a photo

Upload a photo, pick the style — and meet the hero.

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The same child drawn as a watercolour storybook hero

From scratch

No photo, or none you like? Build the hero yourself. You know them best.

Then pick the art style your family loves.

The same hero in Watercolour style

Watercolour

The same hero in Soft cartoon style

Soft cartoon

The same hero in Dreamy pastel style

Dreamy pastel

The same hero in 3D style

3D

The same hero, in every style.

Chapter two

Pick the lesson.

Kindness, courage, perseverance — or one of your own. The one they need right now.

A small hero facing a tall hill under a single star

Courage

A hero climbing a stepped hill

Perseverance

A hero reaching a hand to a child sitting apart

Kindness

A hero offering a small glowing light in open hands

Honesty

If the lesson you’re looking for isn’t on the list, write it in. The story is built around your words.

Then shape how it’s told.

Kind of story

A bedtime story, an adventure, something funny, a touch of fantasy — or a day that looks like their own.

Where it happens

Choose where the story takes place — a forest, the sea, space, or their own street.

Age and length

Stories are written for ages one to eight. Pick the reading age and the length, and the words grow with them.

Chapter three

Watch them live it.

Now the story is theirs.

The hero on a storybook page, mid-adventure

Before anything is printed, you’ll see the hero on the page — in the style you chose. You’ll know it’s them at a glance.

Not quite them yet? Adjust until it is.

A finished hardcover storybook with the hero on the cover

Then it’s printed and bound — a book made for small hands and many re-reads.

And when the story ends, the hero doesn’t.

They’re saved — same hero, next lesson, ready when you are.

The saved hero beside a small library of their storybooks

Giving it as a gift? You give the book. They make the hero.

A voucher covers the story. The family shapes it — nothing to guess, nothing to spoil.

Give a story

Questions, answered

You pick the lesson. They live it as the hero.

Create their story