There is one chair, one blanket, and one voice that makes the dark feel smaller.
Ages 0-6
From $16.90
For mum
A personalized book for mum
A story she is inside, told by the child she reads to.
The child is the hero of the story. Mum is in it with them, and the dedication is written in the child's voice.
What makes a book work as a gift for mum
The books that land with a mother are the ones that give her back a moment she was too busy living to notice. Choose the story around a routine rather than an event - the bedtime chair, the walk to school, the summer that ran together - because the routine is the thing she will miss first. Your child is the hero and she is in the story with them, which is the part that makes it hers rather than another gift.
A dedication in the child's voice
To Mummy - you were the first face I knew. Love, your baby.
The dedication is page one of the printed book - the first page mum opens.
One practical tip
Pick the photo of her that she likes, not the most recent one. She has to look at it every time the book is opened.
Before you choose
Two quite different presents are sold under this phrase - a book about her, and a story her child stars in with her in it - and the thing that separates them is that she is the one who will be reading it aloud: why the child has to want it too
Which of them, and why
The Longest Wave Goodbye - The school gate, from her side of it. This is the one for a mother who is about to hand her child over to a building every day, and it is the only story here where the grown-up is the one being left behind.
The One Who Knows How - For the months after a new baby, when the older child has quietly become staff. She is in it, the baby is in it, and the hero is the child who is worried they have been demoted - which is usually who the book is really for.
The Day Everyone Came - The gathering: her, a grandmother, the whole noisy room. Best when the gift marks an occasion she hosted rather than one she was given, and the wrong one if the point is the two of them alone.
The Family Quest - Both parents in the same story, which makes it the one to choose when the book is from the family rather than from one child - and the one to avoid if you want it to read as hers.
Stories with a grown-up in them
A rope swing, a dare, and a summer that neither of them will forget.
Ages 4-8
From $16.90
A folded note, an old key, and a whole family that agrees to follow it.
Ages 4-8
From $16.90
Free preview before you pay Add mum as a second person, with their own photo Ships straight to them
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All giftsCommon questions
Who is the hero of the book — mum or the child?
The child. Your child is the hero on every page, drawn from a photo you upload, and mum is in the story beside them. The dedication is written in the child's voice. If you are looking for a book where the grown-up is the main character, this is not that book.
Can mum be drawn in too?
Yes. Add them as a second person and upload one clear photo of them, and they are illustrated alongside the child on the pages where the story puts them together. You confirm you have their permission to use the photo.
Can I see it before I pay?
Yes - the cover and the whole of chapter one, free, with the faces already drawn. You only pay if it looks like them.
Can more than one child be in it?
Yes. Add each child as their own person with their own photo, and the story is written to hold them all - that is what the family stories are for.
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Put the child on every page, and mum in the story with them.