Our story · est. 2025
A child draws it. We make it a real book.
DoodleTale turns one drawing into a personalized premium softcover storybook, illustrated in your child's own style, written around the character they invented, and shipped to your door.
The drawing is the whole point.
You photograph any drawing. Our AI finds the character in it, writes an original story around them, and illustrates all 30 pages in a style pulled straight from the art: the wobbly lines, the colors they chose, the particular way they draw eyes. Every page looks like your child made it, because the source did.
It started with a dragon.
Roni and the people it's really for.
The dragon is still in the book. The book is still on the shelf.
My kid came home with a drawing: a dragon, a castle, and a tiny stick figure holding a flag. One of those drawings that deserves more than the front of the fridge.
I went looking for a service to turn it into a real book. I found name books, photo books, and template plots that drop a cartoon child into a pre-written story. None of them started from the drawing.
So I built it. That drawing became the first DoodleTale book, printed, read at bedtime, kept on the shelf. Not because of the technology, but because of what it made possible: a book that could only exist because of what one child drew.
Built by one parent, in New York.
DoodleTale is a studio of one. I'm Roni, I founded it, I design it, and I run it, as a parent in New York. That's deliberate: every story written, every print proof, and every box that ships gets one person's full attention.
I work with a network of regional print partners rather than one central facility, so books print close to you and arrive faster. When one comes back wrong (occasionally it does), I catch it and reprint it, no questions asked.
The moment I build for is the same one every time: a kid opens the box and says, "that's my drawing."