A real example, start to finish

One photo became this book

Meet Lena, our example explorer. Follow the exact steps you'd take (photo, character, style, theme) all the way to a finished picture book you can read right here.

Step 1

One photo, any style

Meet Lena, 6, and Dad: real photos on the left, their characters on the right. Tap a style: Lena and Dad are redrawn together, and the whole book follows. Add parents, siblings or friends. They become characters too.

Example photo of Lena, our example explorer — The real photo

Lena as a character in the Watercolor style — Lena

Lena as a character in the Crayon style — Lena

Dad

Step 2

Pick the adventure

Lena pointing at a tiny round door in the hillside as she and Dad hike a moorland path beside a mossy stone wall, sheep on the far hills, claymation illustration

Adventure · Claymation

Lena picked Claymation · Adventure · 16 pages · that became the book below. Tap another adventure: same explorers, a new world, and a different art style on every tile.

These six are presets. You can also write your own theme in a sentence: parents use it for the lessons and milestones their kids are working on.

Baking breadBrushing teethPotty trainingFirst day of school

Step 3

The book

A mysterious painted card, a hidden door in the hillside, and a secret Lena and Dad decide is worth keeping, and quietly passing on. Every page below (words and pictures) was created with LittleReaders in Claymation · Adventure, exactly as you'd receive it.

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Cover

Notice what doesn't change

Same face, same hair, same outfit. On every single page. That's what makes it feel like Lena's book instead of a book with Lena's name in it.

Lena standing beside Dad in a windswept grass field, one hand raised toward her ear as she listens to the wind, sheep grazing in the distant hills, claymation illustration

Dad crouching beside Lena near a mossy stone wall as her curly hair streams sideways in the wind, both listening intently while sheep graze behind them, claymation illustration

Lena holding up the card to show Dad its painted picture of a tiny door wrapped in ivy, her mouth open in surprise, sheep grazing by the stone wall behind them, claymation illustration

Lena pushing against the locked hillside door with both hands and a frustrated frown, Dad watching with a knowing smile behind her, claymation illustration

Dad holding up an ornate brass key as Lena looks up at it wide-eyed, the little hillside door and stone wall behind them, claymation illustration

Lena sitting on the floor of the hidden room with her hands pressed to her cheeks in thought, Dad crouching beside her, shelves of painted stones and glowing jars around them, claymation illustration

Close-up of Lena reaching up to tuck the brass key into Dad's jacket pocket, both smiling warmly at each other by the hillside door, claymation illustration

Dad giving a playful salute with one eyebrow raised as Lena laughs joyfully beside him on the moor path, sheep, a rabbit and a hawk sharing the wide grassy scene, claymation illustration

The example bookshelf

Different kids, different styles, different adventures. Every book here is real, finished output you can read cover to cover. New favorites replace these as they're made.

Starring Lena · Claymation · 16 pages

A mysterious painted card, a hidden door in the hillside, and a secret Lena and Dad decide is worth keeping, and quietly passing on.

Cover illustration of Theo standing in tall ferns holding a smooth golden stone, three dinosaurs grazing in the misty distance, watercolor illustration

Starring Theo · Watercolor · 16 pages

One watering hole, two thirsty dinosaurs, and a rattling seed pod that made room for both.

Cover illustration of Maya floating weightlessly inside a glass-domed observation deck, round glasses catching the light as stars drift beyond the window, 3D-animated illustration

Starring Maya · 3D Animated · 16 pages

A lonely seed adrift in the dark, a garden gone cold, and a girl patient enough to save them both.

Art Styles

Ten styles, one of them yours

Pick any style and every page of your book is illustrated in it, cover to cover.

An example illustration in the Watercolor style — Watercolor

An example illustration in the Crayon style — Crayon

An example illustration in the Pen & Ink style — Pen & Ink

An example illustration in the Colored Pencil style — Colored Pencil

An example illustration in the Paper Collage style — Paper Collage

An example illustration in the Classic Storybook style — Classic Storybook

An example illustration in the Mid-Century style — Mid-Century

An example illustration in the Claymation style — Claymation

An example illustration in the 3D Animated style — 3D Animated

An example illustration in the Painterly Anime style — Painterly Anime

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