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New Year gifts

Personalized New Year books to start the year as the hero

Ring in the new year with a storybook adventure that makes your child the star of what comes next.

A fresh year is full of possibility. A personalized New Year story sends a child into it feeling brave and capable - the hero of their own next chapter.

Great New Year gift picks

Hello, New Year! - personalized children's book coverEli's New Year

As the old year twinkles goodbye, your child makes a wish for the year to come.

Ages 2-8

From $14.90
Free preview before you pay Add a dedication - "For them, with love" Ships straight to their door

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Common questions

What is a good New Year gift for a child?

A personalized storybook starring the child - a hopeful keepsake to start the year as the hero of their own adventure.

Is there still time before the new year?

For a printed copy you need about a fortnight, and late December is the slowest postal fortnight of the year - so if it is already mid-December, choose the digital edition and add the keepsake in January, when it also makes a lovely un-Christmassy present.

What makes a book a New Year gift rather than a late Christmas one?

The dedication, mostly. A dated line - the year, and something about who they were in it - is what turns it into a marker rather than a present that missed its window.

Will it actually look like them?

  • Reference portrait: Deep brown skin, tightly coiled hair, age 5The illustrated character kept from it: Deep brown skin, tightly coiled hairDeep brown skin, tightly coiled hair
  • Reference portrait: Fine, fair, barely-there hair, age 1The illustrated character kept from it: Fine, fair, barely-there hairFine, fair, barely-there hair
  • Reference portrait: Straight black hair with a fringe, age 7The illustrated character kept from it: Straight black hair with a fringeStraight black hair with a fringe
  • Reference portrait: Curly ginger hair and freckles, age 4The illustrated character kept from it: Curly ginger hair and frecklesCurly ginger hair and freckles
  • Reference portrait: Round glasses, age 6The illustrated character kept from it: Round glassesRound glasses
  • Reference portrait: Long braids with beads, age 8The illustrated character kept from it: Long braids with beadsLong braids with beads
  • Reference portrait: A visible hearing aid, age 5The illustrated character kept from it: A visible hearing aidA visible hearing aid
  • Reference portrait: A baby with no hair, 6 monthsThe illustrated character kept from it: A baby with no hairA baby with no hair

Skin tone, hair texture and freckles all carried through - including the cases most generators get wrong. See it up close

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Make them the hero of their own new year story.