A storybook starring your child

Your voice, telling their story. Forever.

A hand-illustrated book where your child is the hero, read aloud in the real voice of someone who loves them. From the next room, or from three time zones away.

Make their book → Read a real one
their name, their home, their little brother, their dog. all of it, in the book.
A watercolor storybook page of a little boy hugging his blue robot toy in a cozy bedroom
A page from another storybook: two brothers with a star-caped cat in a dreamy starlit sky
The moment

The first time they hear your voice come out of the story.

They see their own name on the page. Their house. Their little brother. And then the story begins to read itself, in the voice that has always meant safe.

Teddy and the Lost Toy, page 7 Grandpa’s voice

Teddy hugged his little robot tight. “Don’t you worry,” he whispered. “Wherever you go, I will always come and find you.”

A joyful watercolor reunion: the boy hugging his robot toy under a tree at night
the night Teddy found him again
“That’s Grandpa! Grandpa’s inside the book!”
whispered by a four year old, the first night, and most nights since
Whose voice

Some voices a child never forgets.

A thousand miles away

The grandparent who can’t be there tonight

Distance is nothing to a bedtime story. Grandma reads it every single night, the same warm voice, the same “goodnight,” from wherever she is.

The parent who travels

Away for work again? Your voice still reads the bedtime story, in your words, even on the nights you can’t be there to turn the page.

The voice worth keeping

A voice you love, reading a story your child stars in, saved exactly as it sounds today. Something they will still have long after tonight.

How it works

Three minutes of reading. A bedtime they’ll ask for every night.

1

Read for three minutes

Any grown-up who loves them, a parent or a grandparent, reads one short story out loud on their phone. That’s it. That’s the voice.

2

Tell us about the child

Their name, their world, their little brother, their pet, what makes them them. Send the idea for the story you want.

3

Open it together

We hand-make their illustrated book. They see their own story. They hear your voice reading it, with the words lighting up, one by one.

How we’re different

Others make a storybook. We make your child’s.

Real life, real faces, your real voice, and a story quietly built to help them grow. Here’s what only our book does, next to the apps parents are choosing between today.

  Us Our Library THE WHOLE THING Storynite“RECAP THE DAY” StoryBudPHOTO-LIKENESS ART GrammsAUDIO ONLY StoryBeeWEB + iOS
Their real lifethe story is about their actual day
Their real facesdrawn from photos of your own family
Your own voiceread by someone who loves them
Record just oncethree minutes, then every book forever
Words light upread-along, one word at a time
Built to help them growa real lesson from their life, plus a page for grown-ups on why it works
Has it Partly, or only if you type it in Doesn’t
No one else does all of it. The closest apps get part of the way, but each one is missing a different piece. Ours is the only book that’s about their real life, drawn with their real faces, read in your real voice, and built to teach a true lesson from the life they’re actually living.
Real pages, real books

Drawn around one particular child.

Soft watercolor and colored pencil, no two books alike, because no two children are. These pages are from real books we’ve made.

A page from The Big Road: the whole family together in the car on the open highway
A page from Sherlock and the World of Dreams: two brothers with a star-caped cat in a dreamy sky
A page from The Fire Inside: two brothers playing with wooden blocks
A page from The Big Road: the family arriving at a castle
A page from Sherlock and the World of Dreams: dad playing guitar in a glowing garden with the boys and the cat
A page from The Big Road: the family in the car with golden hills and a red barn outside
A page from Sherlock and the World of Dreams: a black cat in a sunlit home
A page from The Fire Inside: a father and son taking calming breaths together
A page from Teddy and the Lost Toy: a joyful nighttime reunion
The Big Road, a personalized storybook: a family arriving at a castle by car
The Big Road Read in Mommy’s & Daddy’s voices
Sherlock and the World of Dreams, a personalized storybook: two brothers with a star-caped cat in a dreamy sky
Sherlock and the World of Dreams Read in a parent’s voice
The Fire Inside, a personalized storybook: two brothers playing with wooden blocks in a sunlit room
The Fire Inside Read in Mommy’s & Daddy’s voices

The book that gets read forty nights in a row.

“He recognized my voice in the very first sentence. He looked up and said, ‘Daddy, you’re in the book.’ He’s asked for it every night since.”

A dad, reading from the road

“I live across the country from my granddaughter. Now she falls asleep to my voice, reading her a story she stars in. I cried the first time I heard it back.”

A grandma, three states away
These are the reactions this is built for. Yours goes here next.

Make the story they’ll never forget hearing.

Tell us who it’s for and what happens in it. We’ll turn it into a real illustrated book, read aloud in the voice they love.

Make their book →
Or record a voice first, so it’s ready the moment the book is.