Stories That Remember

Capture the magic before it quietly slips away

Right now there's a word they still say wrong, a thing they can't stop talking about, a joke only your family gets. It all feels ordinary today. One day it will be priceless.

We turn who they are right now into adventures they'll ask for again and again. And underneath every adventure, story by story, we keep a faithful snapshot of who they were.

Your phone keeps how they looked. We keep how they sounded.

For themChildren fall in love with the adventure.

For youFamilies treasure the memories hidden within it.

Their real life, turned into adventure

You tell us about them. We turn the ordinary, wonderful truth of who they are into a story only they could star in.

What you tell us

"She's obsessed with twirly dresses and won't stop singing."

↓ What we make

The night the music went missing, the whole kingdom panicked.
The birds forgot their tunes. The sheep couldn't remember if they went baa or moo. The royal band stared at their trumpets like they were fancy candle holders.
Only one sound was left: a girl in a twirly dress, singing at the top of her voice. She was always singing. Even being asked very nicely to stop had never worked.
And every time she spun, little notes went spinning out of her skirt like sparkles.
So they sent for the Twirl Princess.

…and that's just the opening page.

Clara as the Twirl Princess: a watercolour storybook illustration of a girl twirling in a pink dress

Clara as the Twirl Princess. Add pictures to any story, or turn a favourite into a printed keepsake.

We don't put your child in a story.
We build the story around them.

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Most personalised books

A name dropped into a story that already exists

The plot, the pictures and the adventure were written long before your child came along. Swap the name and the hair colour, and it's the same book every other family receives.

A typical page might read

"[Child's Name] was a brave, kind child who loved adventures. One day, [Child's Name] set off to explore the big, wide world…"

Thousands of other children are reading that exact same page tonight.

The same illustration in every copy.

Stories That Remember

An adventure that could only ever belong to your child

We start with your child: their obsessions, their quirks, the moment from last Tuesday that captured exactly who they are. Then we grow a one-of-a-kind adventure outwards from there. Or keep it right in the moment: tonight's bedtime story could be all about today's trip to the zoo, penguin that wouldn't stop staring and all. Got more than one? Each child is their own hero, together in the same story.

The reaction we're after: "that's me!"

Dexter

Clara

Every child gets their own storybook self, and their own hero moment.

Meet their storybook self

Tell us how they look, and while you set up their first story we'll draw them as a storybook character. It's free, you can ask for a redraw, and it's made from your words, never a photo.

Poppy, 5

Never met a puddle she didn't jump in

Rory, 10

Superhero by night, cardboard engineer by day

Dexter

Fastest kid in the playground (he says)

Clara

Twirls first, asks questions later

Grandad Joe

The people they love can join in too

Biscuit

And yes, so can the dog

✦ Ready in about 30 seconds ✦ Kept safely in your account ✦ The same face in every story and every book

And it sits on their shelf in your library

Poppy's shelf

Rory's shelf

Stories with pictures

Add 4 to 6 illustrations to any story you read on screen, depending on its length. They paint themselves in while you read, usually within a couple of minutes, with your child at the heart of every one. A printed keepsake goes further, with ten full-page pictures and a painted cover.

Poppy and the Puddle to the Moon

Poppy in a yellow raincoat jumping into a garden puddle with Biscuit the dog

Puddles were Poppy's favourite thing in the whole world. Especially the big ones.

Poppy and Biscuit diving through a swirling tunnel of stars inside the puddle

She held her breath, held on to Biscuit, and jumped.

Poppy sharing a jam sandwich with a moon rabbit on a picnic blanket on the moon

The moon rabbit had never tasted a jam sandwich. It was, he said, the best thing that had ever happened on the moon.

Poppy asleep in bed with Biscuit curled at her feet and the moon in the window

And if you looked very closely, someone small was waving goodnight from the moon.

Poppy is made up, so we can show you her story. Yours stays private to your family, always.

Two ways to paint them

Every printed keepsake comes in the style you choose. Same story, same child, two different moods.

Rory on a rooftop at sunset, painted in the Watercolour style

The same scene painted in the Bold style

Watercolour Recommended for most stories

Soft, gentle and timeless. Our signature style.

Bold

Brighter colours, stronger lines and lots of energy. Often chosen for older children, whatever the story.

You choose right at the end of your keepsake order, once the story is just right. Both cost the same. Stories with pictures on screen are painted in Watercolour.

Rory is made up too. He's 10, and his cardboard robot Bolt has just come to life.

Sometimes a story needs to do more than entertain.

Starting school. A new sibling. A big feeling that doesn't have a name yet. Tell us what's going on, and we'll write with it in mind, woven gently into their adventure, never a lesson in disguise.

Starting somewhere new

A wobble with confidence

Big feelings, no name yet

However they take a story in

A change at home

What you tell us

"She's starting school in September, and I think she's nervous about it."

↓ What we write

On her first morning at Willowbrook Infants School, her tummy did somersaults.
But she'd faced worse. Last week she won a thumb war against a giant whose thumb was the size of a sofa.
(Nobody knows how. Not even the giant.)
If she could do that, she could do anything.

The stories don't diagnose. They just meet them where they are.

This is the part no one else does.

Every story remembers the last

Characters, milestones, family in-jokes, all carried forward. One child or a houseful, the stories remember how they grow up together.

II.

Built from who they are today

Update their profile any time. Tell us what landed. The next story reflects who they are now, not who they were when you started.

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The ones that matter, kept forever

A story that really lands, or a big day worth marking, starting school, a birthday, their first Christmas, can become a hardback keepsake, checked page by page by our team.

The Twirl Princess

Her very first adventure.

II.

The Song at Sea

Remembers the Twirl Princess, and her big brother joins the crew.

III.

Return to the Sunlit Kingdom

A year on, older and braver, and the song from Book I returns.

✦ Became a keepsake

How it works

A few honest steps, whether it's a two-minute favour before bed or a keepsake worth printing.

Tell us who they are

A friendly chat captures the obsessions, the sayings and the little things properly, so we're never starting from zero, and it only gets richer as they grow.

Meet their storybook self

While you set up their first story, we draw their avatar from your description. It's free, and it keeps them looking like themselves from book to book.

"Can we have a story?!"

Today's trip to the seaside, reimagined as a mermaid rescue. Or whatever they dream up. It's ready in about a minute, and if you've chosen pictures they paint themselves in as you read.

For the ones that land

Turn a favourite into a hardback keepsake in Watercolour or Bold. We check every page, add it to your library, and post it to you, usually within 2 weeks.

Capture the magic before it quietly slips away

Their real life, turned into adventure

We don't put your child in a story.We build the story around them.

A name dropped into a story that already exists

An adventure that could only ever belong to your child

Meet their storybook self

Stories with pictures

Two ways to paint them

Watercolour Recommended for most stories

Bold

Sometimes a story needs to do more than entertain.