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[Name]'s Christmas Wish — sample cover with an AI stand-in child
Starring your child

Starring your child

[Name]'s Christmas Wish

Your child on Christmas Eve, finding out that the best wish is the one you give. A keepsake you read every December.

  • A Christmas book with their face in it, ready tonight, not in two weeks
  • Snow, a wish, a surprise and a giving that comes back round
  • Gentle on the gimme: the story is about giving, without a lecture
  • From Grandma, from Santa, from you: the dedication page is yours
  • 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

    Christmas Eve at the window, the wish, the animals who each need something, the giving, and the morning. Your child on every page.

  • Their name in the title

    "[Name]'s Christmas Wish" on the cover, and inside.

  • A letter page

    A page to write your own note, or to tuck a note from Santa.

  • A colouring page

    Your child and the animals by the tree, in outlines, for the long afternoon.

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 and grandparents who want a Christmas keepsake with the child's face in it, delivered the same day
  • Families who want a Christmas story about giving rather than getting

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)
  • Children who practise giving in a story are more likely to do it in life: a wish that is given away and comes back
  • A keepsake that is reread each December builds the family's own tradition

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?

  • Yes. The dedication page has room for whoever is giving it, and the story does not name a parent.

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.