CoverDinosaurs
A dinosaur book starring your child
Your child walks through a valley of living dinosaurs and is the first to hear something peeping in the bushes.
Make this story yours
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Here’s the idea with Oliver in it. Type a name and it becomes your child’s.
Oliver walks into a valley of living dinosaurs with a badge and binoculars, and from behind the trees comes a heavy stomp, stomp, stomp. Ahead are a brachiosaurus, a triceratops, a spinosaurus, an ankylosaurus, a velociraptor and a tyrannosaurus — green valley, lake, hot sand — each with a fact and something to find in the picture. But only Oliver hears a rustle and a tiny peep behind. When the biggest one appears, Oliver hears which way and hides behind a boulder. On the way back there is a lost chick, and the guide whispers: birds are the dinosaurs' descendants, still all around us.
Make It Your Own StoryNext: a photo. You can rewrite any part of the story later.
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- Best for ages 3 to 8
- See the cover before you pay
- 26 pages
- Drawn from your own photos
- Add a printed hardcover
From$7.99Digital book. A printed hardcover adds $37.00.
How is the book personalized?
You add your child’s name and a few photos, of them and of anyone joining them in the story.
Size & quality
26 pages. The digital book arrives as a PDF.
The printed book is a hardcover on heavy paper.
Delivery
The PDF arrives as soon as you pay. Printed books ship by post.
What the story is about
Your child walks through a valley of living dinosaurs and is the first to hear something peeping in the bushes.
Six dinosaurs, each with a sign: one true fact and something to find in the picture.
When the T. rex comes, your child hears which way it’s coming and hides in time. On the way back they find a lost chick and learn that birds descend from dinosaurs.
Who can be in the book
- Your child is the hero
- Add a grandparent or parent
- Add friends
An excerpt
How the book begins
Early one summer morning, Oliver stood in front of the enormous gates of the Dino Park. In his hands he held his ticket — a real one, with a golden dinosaur on it — and he held it tight-tight. The gates were so tall that you had to tip your head all the way back, right up to the sky. […]
The gates creaked slowly, slowly open. And somewhere deep inside the park, something went stomping by, loud and heavy: STOMP. STOMP. STOMP.
Oliver’s tummy went all fizzy inside — maybe from fright, maybe from joy.
From “Oliver and the Littlest Dinosaur”. In your book the hero is your child, and we write the text fresh — from your plot, with your family in it.
See this whole bookHow to make your own book
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Type a name and choose who comes along
Right on this page — the story re-tells itself around your child.
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Add a photo
We draw the hero and their family from photos. One clear picture is enough.
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See the cover free
No card, no sign-up. You can rewrite the plot before you pay.
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Get the book
26 pages as a PDF. Add a printed hardcover, delivered, if you like.
Questions about this book
- What age is this story for?
- The plot suits ages 3 to 8. We match the length and difficulty of the text to the age you give us.
- Who can be added to the book?
- Your child is the hero. Add a grandparent or parent. Add friends. People are drawn from their photos.
- Can I change the plot?
- Yes. The plot on this page is only a starting point: in the builder you can rewrite it in full or in detail, and we write the book from your version.
- What does it cost, and what is free?
- You see the cover free — no card, no sign-up. The digital book is $7.99; a printed hardcover adds $37.00.
- What language will the book be in?
- English or Russian — you choose the book’s language in the builder, whatever language you read the site in.
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