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The Night [Name] Was Brave — sample cover with an AI stand-in child
Starring your child

Starring your child

The Night [Name] Was Brave

A bedtime story where your child is the one who faces the dark, and finds out they were brave all along.

  • Your child sees themselves do the scary thing and come out fine
  • Gives them a brave breath and a brave sentence to use for real
  • Turns "I can't" into "I did", in a book with their name on the cover
  • The bedtime story they ask for again, because they are the hero
  • Emailed within 24 hours, usually sooner
  • Print at home, black and white is fine
  • One free redo, or your money back
  • Made for ages 3–8
$24

Who is the hero of this book?

One name, one photo. We paint your child into every page and email the finished book.

In the story
One clear photo of their face
  • The photo is never sold, shown, shared or used to train anything. It is deleted when the book is made, or after 48 hours if you don't order.
  • A person checks every page. Not happy with the likeness? We redo it once, free, or refund you.
  • Your PDF arrives by email within 24 hours, usually sooner. Print at home or at any copy shop.

Trusted by 35,000+ customers worldwide

If it doesn't look like your child, we fix it. A person checks every page before you see it. If the likeness is off anywhere, reply to the email and we paint it again once for free. Still not right? Full refund, no questions.

Ready within 24 hours Photo deleted after Print at home

How it works

Three steps, about ten minutes

  1. 1

    Name and photo

    Type your child's first name, choose one clear photo of their face, and tick the box that says you are their parent or guardian.

  2. 2

    We paint every page

    Your child goes into the story in our painted style, with the same animal friends as our other books. A person checks every page.

  3. 3

    Read it tonight

    The PDF lands in your inbox within 24 hours. Print it at home, or read it on a tablet at bedtime.

Read a whole finished book

Every page of Goodnight, Leo

A different story from the same series, made the way yours will be: one photo, one first name, twelve pages, checked by a person. Leo is an AI stand-in, not a real child. Every page here is from the finished PDF, exactly as it was emailed.

  • Cover: Leo in green pyjamas yawning and hugging a pillow, with Tuck, Pip and Ollie in a sleepy row beside him under the title Goodnight, Leo
    1 / 12 · Cover
  • Dedication page: This book belongs to Leo, with ruled lines for a handwritten note and Pip asleep in the corner
    2 / 12 · Dedication page
  • Leo kneels on a window seat at sunset talking to Ollie the owl while the moon comes up
    3 / 12 · The sun goes down
  • 4 / 12 · 1. Bath
  • 5 / 12 · 2. Teeth
  • 6 / 12 · 3. Pyjamas
  • 7 / 12 · 4. One book
  • 8 / 12 · 5. One more hug
  • 9 / 12 · 6. Lights out
  • 10 / 12 · Goodnight, everything
  • 11 / 12 · Routine chart for the wall
  • 12 / 12 · Back cover

Page 1 of 12

What's inside

Everything in the book

  • The story, 12 pages

    Lights out, a shadow, a worry, a brave breath, a flashlight, and the morning after. Your child on every page, with Tuck, Pip and Ollie beside them.

  • Their name in the title

    "The Night [Name] Was Brave" on the cover and through the story.

  • The brave breath

    The one page to practise on a calm day: breathe in slow, blow the worry out. Same breathing as The Calm-Down Kit.

  • A dedication page

    From whoever is giving it, with room for a few words of your own.

Reviews

What parents say

Trusted by 35,000+ customers worldwide

This book is new, so there are no reviews yet. When parents tell us how it went, their words go here: theirs, not ours.

Why this one

Not another name-in-the-blank book

BravesmallA typical personalized book
Your child's face on every page, not just their name
Arrives today by email, no shipping
A story that teaches something (brave, calm, kind)
A person checks every page for likeness
Photo deleted as soon as the book is made
Reprint as many times as you like

How we made it

Built on research, not guesswork

We read the published work of child psychologists, pediatricians and early-childhood researchers first, then wrote and drew the pages to put it into practice at home.

Who it's for

  • Parents of children aged 3–8 who are scared of the dark, of trying, or of the first night somewhere new
  • Grandparents and godparents who want a gift the child will actually ask for

What it puts into practice

  • Seeing yourself do the hard thing: children are more likely to try a behaviour they have watched themselves do (self-modelling, Dowrick's research on video self-modelling)
  • Name the feeling before trying to fix it (Gottman's emotion coaching)
  • A slow out-breath calms the body faster than a deep in-breath; the "brave breath" is the same balloon breathing as The Calm-Down Kit
  • Brave is doing it scared: the story names the fear and does the thing anyway, with a grown-up one call away

Sources

  • John Gottman's research on emotion coaching, and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley

An educational tool for everyday parenting and teaching, not therapy or medical advice.

Questions

Still curious?

  • No. The dark is a shadow that turns out to be a coat, the worry is named and breathed out, and there is a grown-up one call away. It ends in sleep, not in a fight.

If it doesn't look like your child, we fix it

A person checks every page before you see it. If the likeness is off anywhere, reply to the email and we paint it again once for free. Still not right? Full refund, no questions.