A book where your child is the hero
CubFable makes one picture book at a time, for one child. You give us a name, a photo and an idea. We write the story, you read it and approve it, and then we illustrate it, print it, bind it and post it to your door.
Digital copy
Read tonight on any screen, PDF to keep. Add the hardcover later for $33.00 more
Printed hardcover
Posted free, 7-8 working days. Digital copy included
What you can count on
You read it before we draw it
The story is written first and sent to you to read in full. If it is not the book you had in mind you can ask for it to be rewritten. Not a single illustration is made until you approve the words.
Painted, never pasted
The photo you upload is only ever a reference. Your child is fully redrawn in the illustration style you picked, so the book looks hand-painted from cover to cover instead of like a face cut out and dropped onto a page.
The price is the whole price
Delivery is free, and it is shown as its own free line on the total so you can see there is nothing waiting to be added at the end.
The photo stays private
Photos of your child are kept in private storage, never on a public web address. Where one has to be shown back to you it is served through a link that expires by itself.
Every picture book is about somebody else
Children work out early that the brave one in the book is never them. It is a rabbit, or a boy with a different name, in a house that is not theirs.
CubFable turns that around. Your child is on the cover and on every page, wearing their own face, doing the brave thing themselves. It is the same book you would read anyway, except that this time it is about them.
That is also why it is printed on paper rather than left on a screen. A book can be carried around, argued over at bedtime, and read until the corners go soft.
How a book is made
- 1
Pick a story, or bring your own
Choose from the catalogue of story ideas, or write your own idea in a sentence and we build the book around it.
- 2
Add your hero
Their name, their age, a line about them, and a photo. Add the people who matter too: a little brother, a grandmother, the dog.
- 3
Read it and say yes
We write the story and you read the whole thing. Approve it, or send it back to be rewritten.
- 4
We illustrate, print and post it
Every page is illustrated in the style you chose, then the book is printed, bound and posted to your door. A PDF copy comes with it.
For the big first days and the small hard ones
Some books are a present. Others are how a family talks about something difficult without having to find the words first.
It arrives as a real book
Once the story is illustrated, the book is printed, bound and posted to the address you give at checkout. Delivery is free, and the PDF is yours straight away, so the story can be read at bedtime while the parcel is still on its way.
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- story ideas
- 7
- Illustration styles
- 8
- languages
- 12
- pages, every story
