For long-distance grandparents · Ages 3–6
Miles away, you only get a few minutes on a screen. A Booku book puts you inside their bedtime — your face in the pictures, your name in the story — read again and again, until you're not the grandparent far away. You're part of their world.
Watch yourself become part of their bedtime in minutes — free, before you pay a penny. No sign-up. No card.
Free to see it. €6.99 for the digital book.
Peek inside a Booku
Inside spreadChoose the look
Two real photos — a grandmother and her grandson — drawn five different ways. You pick the style, and we work hard to keep both of them recognisable page to page.
One pair, five art styles
Picture-Book Watercolor
Tap a style to see it. The illustrations are AI-drawn, so likeness can vary a little between pages — any picture can be redrawn.
What you get
A full illustrated children's book — a bedtime story starring your grandchild, with you woven in, built from the details you share. Not a template with a name pasted in.
Upload a few photos and you appear in the illustrations alongside your grandchild — so every night they turn the pages, they see you.
Pick the look you love: a true-to-life photo style, soft watercolour, an animated-film look, or a classic hand-drawn picture book. Whichever you choose, your grandchild (and you) stay unmistakably recognisable — in one consistent look across all 26 pages.
I'm a book and magazine designer. Before a hardcover goes to press I prepare the illustrations for print and proofread the whole thing myself — so what arrives on the shelf is a book, not a print-out.
Two ways to read it
Ready today€6.99one-off
Yours to keep, on any device
Ready about 10–15 minutes after you pay. We email you a link to your book — download the PDF and read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or forward the file to anyone in the family.
+€33.00one-off
On top of the digital book · shipping included
Add it later and the price is the same — €39.99 all in.
Thick matte pages, their name on the cover, and you inside the story. Add it when you buy, or any time after you’ve read the digital book.
Ordering for a birthday or holiday? The digital book arrives the same day; printing and shipping a hardcover takes about 2–3 weeks — so start early.
The digital book is a PDF — you can download and read it anywhere in the world.
We post printed hardcovers to 57 countries — most of Europe, the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, India and Türkiye.
The digital book downloads anywhere. And the hardcover can go straight to your grandchild instead, if they live somewhere on the list.
How it works
Four simple steps, about five minutes. Have photos ready of everyone who should be in the book.
Name, age, and who should be in the book — plus a few photos of them and of you, so we can capture the likenesses.
We work hardest on one thing: that a child looks at the page and knows it's them, and knows it's you. Judge that for yourself before you pay anything.
We email you the finished book. You can still change the text and regenerate any illustration afterwards.
Love it? Order a printed hardcover to your door — or straight to the child. Printing and shipping take about 2–3 weeks.
Sample books
These are books we made for our own family and friends, so you can see the style and quality. Yours will star you and your grandchild, built from your own photos and details.
Grandparents & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, with Grandma and Grandpa
Style & details
Grandma & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandma
Style & details
Grandma & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandma
Style & details
Grandpa & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandpa
Style & details
Real books, on camera
Why this exists
I live in Prague. My mum is 4,000 km away — we see her twice a year.
My son isn't a phone talker. He's always busy. The books are how he keeps up with his grandparents.
The boy in them is my son, the grandparents are our parents, the photos are ours. He asks for a new one most evenings — him and his grandad on a skateboard, a scooter, a bike. Always the photorealistic style.
— Nadya Tsech, I make personalised books for little readers
Before you decide
We're new. That's exactly why the preview is free — you judge the real art and the real story before you pay anything.
Build the whole thing and look at the actual art and story for your grandchild. No card, no sign-up.
If the finished book isn't right, you get your money back. The risk is ours, not yours.
I'm a book and magazine designer by trade. Before any hardcover goes to press I prepare the illustrations for print and read the whole book through myself. The digital book is delivered straight away, without that pass.
Used only to illustrate your book — never sold, never shared, never used to train AI. Delete them anytime.
Read the digital book today, or have a hardcover printed and posted — to you, or straight to their door in a different country from the one you're ordering from.
See the countries we ship toEvery book is put together for one child from what you tell us — never batched, never templated. Write to us and a person answers, not a bot.
Before you decide
That's what the free preview is for: add a few photos and you'll see both of you before you decide. Likeness isn't perfect every time, so if a picture misses you can tell us what's wrong and have it redrawn — before or after you pay. If it's still not right, you don't pay.
We use your photos only to illustrate your book — never sold, never shared, never used to train AI. We keep them so you can redraw art or reorder a print, and we delete them whenever you ask.
You see the preview free before paying anything, and there's a money-back guarantee on the full book. There's no way to lose money finding out.
If you can send a photo by phone, you can make the whole book. It's a few short questions and a photo, and we do the rest. Most people finish in about five minutes.
Tell us about your grandchild, add a few photos of them and you, and in a couple of minutes you'll see the cover and the first chapter of your own book.
Takes about 5 minutes. No sign-up, no card — you only decide once you've seen it.
Every book is drawn from scratch for one child: 14 original illustrations, including the cover.
