Once upon

Any idea, big or small, becomes a real book — written and drawn in minutes.

Chapter one

It starts with what they say.

"An elephant. A tiger. One very small bird."Said out loud, at bedtime

Story Nook takes the idea and writes the story around it: a beginning, a middle, a brave bit near the end. Then it draws every page in the style your child picked.

The elephant, the tiger and the little bird on the cover all came from that one line.

Book cover: a grey elephant, a small fluffy bird wearing a leaf necklace and an orange tiger with a compass medallion, together in a sunlit bamboo jungle.
Elara and Rori's Jungle JourneyAnime
Elara and Rori's Jungle Journey. One of the styles a child can choose.

Chapter two

Every page, in one style.

Pick claymation and claymation it stays, page after page.

"Our magical painters work fast — and sometimes very sillily."A note from the Story Sprites, in every book

A friend's hair might change colour, shoes might swap feet — these are the Silly Switcheroos. Spot them as you read, then count them all up in the Great Switcheroo Hunt at the end.

Claymation, this time. Twelve styles to choose from. Spot-the-difference, memory match and pair-up games keep the wait fun too.

Book cover in claymation: a zookeeper kneels beside a bear in a green knitted vest while monkeys, a lion and a giraffe look on.
The Zookeeper and the Bear's Big Talk. Claymation.

Four of the twelve art styles.

3D animation
Anime
Claymation
Sketch

And two more kinds of book.

Coloring book
Puzzle book
Leo and Maceo's Sweet Escape storybook cover.
Leo's bookHis name, on the cover
Stardust the Lonely Warrior storybook cover.
Maceo's bookOne of his adventures
Serena and the Whispering River storybook cover.
Serena's bookHer name, on the cover
Cody and Little Hawk's Great Creation storybook cover.
Cody & Little Hawk's bookTheir names, on the cover

A real book. A real name on the cover.

Leo has one. So do Maceo, Serena, and Little Hawk. Next time it's your child's name up there, and you'll be the one who wrote it, together, at bedtime.

And when the book ends, it doesn't have to. Ask for the next one and the same heroes come back, in the same style, for a brand-new adventure. Not a one-off. A series.

Make your first story free

Chapter four

The grown-up pages.

Every book opens in an editor: a Story Bible that keeps characters straight, Magic Edit for a quick fix, and one tap to a PDF or an EPUB. Want a real paperback? It makes the print-ready file for Kindle Direct Publishing; you upload it to your own KDP account.

The editor, sketched. Story Bible, Magic Edit, and export to PDF, EPUB or print file.
No photo of your child. Ever.
Story Nook never asks for one, and never will. Your child's face doesn't belong in an AI model, and a real book doesn't need it: the hero is drawn from a description, and looks like no one but themselves.
They come back.
Each hero gets a character sheet, and the next book in the series is drawn from that same reference. Sequels, remixes, a whole shelf with the same heroes. Still worth a Switcheroo Hunt: the painters are fast, not perfect.
Fix a page, keep the hero.
Change a page in the editor and the character sheet goes with it, so a fix is meant to keep your hero looking like your hero. If a page comes back silly, fix it again; it's one tap.
No ads. No tracking.
Nothing sold, nothing followed. The book is the product.
A grown-ups' area.
Behind a quick sum only an adult would bother with: hide the games at bedtime, set a screen-time timer.
Four languages.
English, Spanish, French and German, for the app and for the books it makes.

The end. Or the start of one.

Make your first story free
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