A picture book starring your child, the people they love, and a lesson woven through the adventure — not bolted onto the last page. Read it tonight. Hold it when you want.
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A real Flickwick book. Yours arrives with your child in it.
One photo becomes one illustrated character sheet, which you look at and approve before a single page is drawn. From then on the drawing is the reference for the whole book, so they look like themselves on every page. Then we delete the photo. Not archived, not kept for training, not run through face recognition — deleted, the moment you approve. Here is exactly how that works.
The child above does not exist. We generated the photograph too, rather than put a real family’s child on our marketing page — which felt like the least we could do, given what this section is about.
It is the most common complaint about AI picture books, and it is the part we built the most machinery around. Approving the drawing above is only the first step — here is what happens to it across every page after that.
Grandma, the little brother, the dog, the dragon — every character is drawn as a reference sheet before page one, whether you uploaded a photo or just described them. A written description cannot hold a dragon’s colours steady across eighteen pictures. A drawing can.
Each illustration is compared to that approved sheet before you ever see it — the right age, the right hair, the right red helmet they wore on page two. Anything that drifts is redrawn automatically.
A final pass looks across every finished page together and redraws the odd one out. Consistency is not a promise we make about the model — it is a step in the process.
And if a picture still isn’t right, you redraw it yourself, as many times as you like. Nothing is final until you say so.
Vocabulary follows how old they are. The adventure does not talk down to them.
Your child, plus the people and creatures they love. Save a look once and reuse it in the next book.
Pick a lesson, add a note — a new baby, a first day, Grandma’s lake house — and we write the book around it.
Reword a line. Redraw a picture. Nothing is final until you say so.
Open it on a phone or tablet at bedtime. When you want it on the shelf, we print a hardcover or paperback and ship it to your door.
Yes, and we would rather say so here than bury it. You choose the world, the characters, and the lesson; the writing and pictures are generated from that. You read every page before bedtime — and before anything is printed.
Photos are optional. Yours goes to private storage, gets used once to draw a character sketch for you to approve, and is deleted the moment you approve it. We never run face recognition. The privacy policy spells out each step.
No. A nickname works just as well, and the story never knows the difference.
Reword the line or redraw the picture as many times as you like. Nothing is final — and nothing is printed — until you approve the book.
No. Reading on a phone or tablet is the book. Print is there when you want something to keep.
Building the cast and seeing your cover drawn is free, with no card. If you want the rest of the book illustrated, it’s $3.99 — once, for that book, which is then yours to read online for good. A printed copy is optional: $34 paperback or $49 hardcover, plus $7.99 shipping.
No. There is nothing recurring and nothing to cancel. You pay per book, when you decide you want that book — and only after you have seen the cover.
That is the problem we spent the most time on. Each character is drawn once as a model sheet that you approve before any page is illustrated. Every picture is then checked against that sheet and redrawn if it drifts, and a final pass compares the whole finished book and fixes the odd one out. If a page still isn’t right, you redraw it yourself as often as you like.
Yes, and it’s a good one. Make the book, put your message in the dedication, and ship it to any US address — theirs, not yours. Printed copies take about 5–12 business days to arrive, so give it a couple of weeks before the birthday.
8.5 inches square, full colour on every page, on 80 lb coated paper. The hardcover is a casewrap — the artwork printed straight onto the board, so there is no dust jacket to lose. It prints exactly as you approved it on screen.
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