The storybook where Max is the hero
32 pages, illustrated around your child: their 22-page story plus keepsake activity pages. The story text matches their exact age, from a baby's very first words to real chapters at ten.
Tell us about Max
Five little details. No photos, ever. We illustrate the hero from what you type.
Three ways to read it
Every book: 8.5 inch square, 32 pages, art edge to edge.
The full book by email, within 24 hours. Read it on the tablet at bedtime or print it at home.
A light, bendy copy for the diaper bag and the backseat. The digital edition arrives within 24 hours while it prints.
Thick matte pages and a stitched spine, made for a thousand bedtimes. The digital edition arrives within 24 hours while it prints.
One new book each year for three years, arriving around each birthday. The same hero, drawn a year older each time. Any titles. Skip or delay anytime.
Printable coloring pages, a door sign, and stickers of their hero. Same art, more fridge door.
Three small steps
Five questions: name, birthday, boy or girl, hair, skin tone. No photos, ever.
Every page is illustrated around your child, with the story text matched to their exact age.
The digital edition arrives within 24 hours, usually the same evening. The keepsake follows to your door.
The same book reads differently at every age
Same artwork, different words. The book meets them at five reading stages from 0 to 10. Nobody else does this.
“Push, push! Big egg!”
“The egg wouldn't budge, so Max made a plan.”
The honest comparison
A story for the big moments, and the small ones
A new book every year, with their hero drawn a little older each birthday
The books become a series your child grows up inside. Matching spines line up on the shelf. Pay once with the 3-Book Journey: skip or delay anytime, no subscription billing, ever.
See the 3-Book Journey
“I built this for my son. His book was the first we ever made, and it is still the quality bar: if a change is not good enough for his book, it does not ship.”
Questions parents ask
How does it look like my child without photos?
You answer a few quick questions: name, birthday, hair, skin tone. Our character system illustrates the hero around those details, plus anything extra you tell us, like glasses or the red wellies. You preview every page before print.
When does it arrive?
The digital edition arrives by email within 24 hours, usually the same evening. Softcovers and hardcover keepsakes print and ship to your door in about a week.
What ages does it suit?
Ages 0 to 10. The age engine meets them at five reading stages: a baby's very first words at the start, real chapters at ten. The hero is drawn their age too.
What is in the book's 32 pages?
Their full 22-page illustrated story, the title and dedication pages, and a set of keepsake activity pages: coloring, a growth chart, an all-about-me page, and more, all age-matched.
What about a baby on the way?
Use the due date as the birthday. The book is written for a brand new baby, ready to read from day one. It grows from there.
What if something is not right?
Every book is final as illustrated. We do not redo artwork for taste. If a detail you entered was applied incorrectly (name spelling, hair, skin tone, glasses), we correct it free, always.
How does gifting work?
Turn on 'This is a gift' in the form. Add a gift message and we print it in the book, enter the recipient's email, and pick an optional send-on date. We deliver the book to them, and gift receipts never show prices.
How does the 3-Book Journey work?
You pay once. Each year around their birthday, we invite you to make the next book: one per year for three years, any titles, with the hero drawn a year older each time. Skip or delay anytime, it never expires, and there is no subscription billing, ever.
What happens to my child's details?
We store only what you type, and we use it to make one book for one kid. Deleted on request, any time. No photos, ever.
Within 24 hours, Max meets their hero.
Usually the same evening. Two minutes now, a book they'll ask for every night.
Make Max’s book