How Bring Wonder is different from other personalized books
Most personalized books put a name into a story someone else wrote. Ours start with a story only your family knows. Here's what that changes.
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Most personalized children’s books work the same way: there’s one story, written in advance, and your child’s name and look are dropped into it. They can be lovely. But the story is the same for every family who orders it.
Bring Wonder starts from the other end. You tell us a story only your family knows, and we write and paint a book from it. Here’s what that changes.
The story comes from you
There are no templates. Tell us who it’s for and what happens, in a sentence or two: Sundays at Nana’s, the puppy who hides socks, a brave first day. We write every page. If you’d rather plan it beat by beat, you can do that too.
We write for your child’s exact age, from 2 to 10. Little ones get a line or two a page. Children reading on their own get a short paragraph. And you can read and change every word before any pictures are made.
Everyone they love can be in it
A book can have up to five characters: the child, brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents, friends, pets. The things that matter can be in it too: mention a blanky, a favorite toy or the family house, and we draw it in, from a photo if you have one.
Add a photo and we’ll draw them just as they are, on every page. The photos themselves never appear in the book. No photo? Describe them and we’ll design them.
Five ways to paint it
Pick a style and the whole book is painted in it: Watercolor, 3D Animated, Clay, Cartoon, or Enchanted. Every character, every page, and the cover match. Nana looks like Nana from the first page to the last.
You see it before you pay
Your story, your characters, the cover, and the first pages are free to make and preview. If it isn’t right, you simply don’t order. After you order, you can still redraw any picture and edit any words before it goes to print.
Made to keep
- A real book. 8.5 inches square, in premium color on smooth, coated paper, as a hardcover or softcover.
- Coloring pages made from your own story.
- A dedication at the front, and a lined page at the back for a grown-up to write a note by hand.
- Printed one at a time, in the USA, with the PDF to read together while it’s on its way.
At a glance
| A fill-in-the-name book | A Bring Wonder book | |
|---|---|---|
| The story | Written once, the same for everyone | Written from the story you tell us |
| Who’s in it | Usually one child | Up to five people and pets, plus the special things and places in the story |
| How they look | Often picked from preset options | Drawn from your photos, or your description |
| Before you buy | Often a few sample pages | Your story, cast, cover, and first pages, free |
| Changes | Usually the name and dedication | Any word, and any picture |
