They get a real printed storybook starring the character they drew, AI-illustrated from their own artwork, written in minutes and shipped in time for Christmas morning.
Example books made by the DoodleTale team. Use one as inspiration, or start fresh with your own drawing →
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Juno · 4 years old
BedtimeBy the tree, a snowman stays awake. At the window, he watches stars.
Doors click shut. The house grows quiet. He stands more straight by the tree.
His head dips. He blinks quickly. He grips his scarf and waits.
Then, jingle jingle, on the roof. One red boot swings past. Morning shines, and he still stands guard.
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Rafi · 6 years old
AdventureOn Christmas Eve, a present drops beside Rafi's penguin. Across the icy bay, the tag names one far house.
He skims past sleeping seals, then darts onto rough ice where cold cracks zigzag ahead.
He reaches the snowy shore and charges up a steep hill, but the box starts slipping.
At pink dawn, he sets the present down and waves, and the gift waits as bells grow faint.
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Elsie · 3 years old
FunnyChristmas kitchen. Gingerbread man bolts away. He dives into Elsie's red stocking.
He peeks out. Dog nose sniffs. WOOF! He pops from the stocking.
He scoots into somebody’s slipper. Uh-oh. A warm toe wiggles.
Up the branches he scrambles, higher, higher, beside the star. Best spot yet, atop the tree.
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Nico · 7 years old
AdventureIn the quiet living room, Nico's nutcracker stood stiff on the shelf beside the dark Christmas tree, the brass music box below him with its keyhole empty.
Down from the shelf he scrambled, and two toy soldiers rushed from behind a stack of presents, their painted faces wide with worry.
Under the fridge he found the key at last, guarded by a mouse who only wanted to hear the music too.
With the last hard push the key slid in, the music box woke with a silver tune, and the star at the top blazed above them all.
Christmas morning is a volume problem. Fifteen things get opened in ninety minutes and almost nothing gets more than a minute of real attention. A book built from a drawing your child actually made is one of the few gifts that survives it, because they are not being handed a story with their name dropped into it. They are seeing what happened to something of theirs. Upload the snowman or the gingerbread man or the wonky nutcracker they drew, and DoodleTale turns that exact drawing into the AI-illustrated hero of a Christmas story. The character, the full story, and the cover are free to preview. A digital download is $9.99 and a printed softcover is $29.99 with free shipping. Order the printed book by December 1, because December is not a normal shipping month.
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Questions, answered
Photograph a drawing they made on plain paper, upload it, and DoodleTale builds an AI-illustrated character from that exact drawing and writes an original Christmas story around it with your child as the named hero. You see the character, read the full story, and see the cover free before paying. A digital download is $9.99 and the printed 8×8 inch softcover is $29.99 with free shipping in the US and Canada.
December 1 for a printed book. Processing is 1 to 3 days and delivery is 3 to 7, which would ordinarily leave you plenty of room, but the carrier network slows badly from the second week of December. December 1 buys roughly two weeks of slack for a job that nominally needs a week. After about December 15, order the $9.99 digital edition instead.
No, and asking for one in December is usually a downgrade. A reindeer produced on request is a performance; the dinosaur they drew in March because they felt like it is the one they will actually recognize on the cover. Any invented character works, in crayon, marker, paint or pencil.
Best for children aged 3 to 8 who draw on their own, since the whole gift rests on them recognizing their own character. A 4-year-old’s circle-head figure makes a perfectly good hero. Under 3, a name-based personalized book is usually the better fit, because most toddlers are not yet drawing distinct characters.
Yes, and it is one of the few gifts that works better at a distance. You only need a photo of a drawing, so a text to the parent in November is enough to place the order, and the printed book ships directly to the child.
Order printed books by December 1. After December 15, digital is the honest answer.
Upload their drawing today. See the character, story, and cover free in minutes, then print and ship.
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