The Essential

Their very first keepsake. A personalized, illustrated book about how your family began, told in few words and big pictures for the tiniest reader.

Tell us how you met. Upload a few photos. We'll write and illustrate a real picture book in your family's voice, with characters drawn to look like you.

Perfect for: Newborns and toddlers (ages 0–3) · Baby shower gifts · Birth announcements you can actually read aloud

• 24 pages · 9 chapters 
• Big art, few words — reads aloud in about 5 minutes
• Choose your storytelling style: Keepsake Story, Little Reader, or Nursery Rhyme
• Choose your illustration style and color palette
• Characters illustrated to look like your family
• Written for every kind of family, including single parents

Digital PDF delivered instantly. Hardcover is printed to order and arrives in about 2–3 weeks.