Stories that bloom
from your life.

Beginning-reader phonics books and flashcards starring your child, pet or favourite toy. Upload a few photos or build your character, choose a sound, and we paint every page.

  • Ages 2–5
  • Decodable text
  • A person checks every book
  • Books are made in small batches and checked by a person. We email you a date when your order is confirmed.
A page from “Milo in the Sand”: Milo the kitten kneels on a treasure map. The caption reads “Milo has a map.”
Page 3 of “Milo in the Sand” · Pack 1, Short A

What we make

A Short A flashcard: Milo holding a bat, the word “bat” with the a highlighted

Phonics Flashcard Pack

Twenty picture-and-word flashcards. Each card shows the word on a bright illustration with the target sound highlighted, plus a word-only drill side for printing back-to-back.

from $14.99 digital · $29.99 printed
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The cover of “Milo in the Sand”

Personalized Storybook

A 10 to 15 page beginning-reader picture book. Your character stars on every page, and every caption is built from the pack’s phonics words so a new reader can decode it alone.

from $19.99 digital · $34.99 printed
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A page from “Milo in the Sand”

Complete Pack Bundle

The whole pack: all five storybooks for the phonics sound, plus the matching 20-card flashcard set. The best way to master one sound from first card to last page.

from $59.99 digital · $99.99 printed
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How it works

  1. 1

    Pick a sound

    Choose a phonics pack — Short A, SH, Long O, blends… — and the book, the flashcards or the whole bundle.

  2. 2

    Create your character

    Upload 3–12 photos for the closest likeness, describe them in words, or build them from simple options.

  3. 3

    We illustrate

    We train a private model on your photos (or work from your description) and paint every page in our warm picture-book style. A person checks every book.

  4. 4

    Read together

    Download the print-ready PDF, or let us print and mail it to you. A person checks every book before it goes out.

Made for new readers

Short sentences built from one sound at a time, in a common synthetic-phonics order, with the target sound tinted on every page.

Made to look like them

Skin tone, hair texture, a hijab, glasses, hearing aids, a wheelchair: we name every one of them in the painting instructions and a person checks the pages. How we do it.

Made with care

Your photos are used only for your order and deleted 30 days after delivery. A person looks at every book before it ships.

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It takes about five minutes to order.

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