What to read, what to give, and what actually helps.

We make custom children’s books: you send one photograph, we draw your child as the character, and they are printed as the main character of a storybook. Along the way we have learned a lot about what makes one of these worth keeping and what makes it a nicely printed object, and most of it is not obvious from a product page.

So this is where we write it down. What to look for before you order a personalized book from anyone, what happens to the photo you upload, what to read to a child who has stopped sleeping or is about to start school, what to give the grandparents when they say they do not want anything, and what to give the person you share a life with, for an anniversary, a wedding or Christmas.