From their name to their shelf.

A few minutes to set up, two more for the story to arrive. Here is each step, in the order you meet it.

Who is in it.

Your child first, then the people they love: Mom, Dad, Grandma, the dog, a best friend. Each gets a name, a role and a look. A photo draws the look; a few words do too.

One photo, used once, to draw the look. The moment you approve it, the photo is deleted. No face recognition, ever.

Levi's approved look: a watercolor character drawn in three views — The look you approve, once. Every page is drawn from it.

The world and the lesson.

Pick a world: up in space, under the sea, the backyard, a city at night. Pick a lesson if you like: sharing, bravery, trying again. It becomes the heart of the plot, not a moral tacked on the last page.

Levi and Lily riding dragons up over a sparkling city at night — San Francisco at night, because that is where Levi lives.

Your hand on the story.

A box in your own words for what only you know: the dog’s name, the trip to the lake, the phrase you always say at bedtime, the thing they are a little afraid of this year. The writer works it in.

Guide the story

Levi just got a baby sister, Lily. He loves the color orange and Grandma’s lake house, and he is a little nervous about the dark.

Read the story tonight.

Two minutes later it is written: a title, a dedication and ten spreads, with your child’s name in the first line. Read it at bedtime. Change any line yourself, or ask for a rewrite in a few words.

Up Above San Francisco

Spread 1

Levi could not sleep. The fog had crept in over the bay, and somewhere out in it, something was glowing orange.

Spread 4

Up, up, up they went! The city sparkled below like a jar full of fireflies.

See them on the cover.

The cover is painted free, with your cast on it, so you can see them drawn before you decide anything else.

The cover of Up Above San Francisco: Levi and Lily on their dragons under a full moon — Levi and Lily, on the cover of their book.

Make it a picture book.

Every page is illustrated in the look you approved. Each picture is checked against the cast, then the whole book is checked page to page. Where something looks off, you get a note and the last word: reword it, redraw it, or say it looks right.

AI can make mistakes, so nothing is final until you say so. Earlier versions of every picture are kept.

Levi on a finished spread, close up, the same face as on his look — Page seven. The face on page seven is the face on the look.

Read it, or hold it.

A finished book is yours to read online for good, on any screen, and to share by a private link you can switch off. When you want it on the shelf, order it printed: 8.3 inches square (21 cm) on heavy gloss paper, paperback or hardcover, shipped in the US — 8–11 business days all told on standard shipping.

Next time, a sequel.

Once a book is finished, Add a sequel appears on it. The same cast, looking exactly as they did, and a story that picks up where the last one left off. Their life moves on and the books keep up.

Levi and Lily peeking over their beds at two small dragons glowing on the floor — Book two starts where book one ended: under the beds.

That is the whole of it.

Start with the cast, or go straight to a story.

Make a book Pricing