Big feelings personalized storybooks

Turn their drawing into a book about how they feel, kept exactly as they drew it.

They get a real printed storybook starring the character they drew, with the odd proportions preserved instead of corrected.

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DoodleTale personalized storybook about big feelings: The Small White Cloud, starring Mira's drawing
Mira's crayon drawing of a fat gray storm cloud with a cross face and short straight rain lines underneath, used as the hero of her DoodleTale storybook

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Mira · 5 years old

Adventure

The Small White Cloud

In the yard, Mira spots her bulging cloud. It wobbles above lunch.

She grabs a bucket and holds it high, but water splashes over everything.

In the afternoon yard, Mira looks at the soaked swings and sandbox. She looks up again.

By late afternoon, dry grass rustles below. Small and pale, the cloud floats home with Mira.

DoodleTale personalized storybook about big feelings: The Little Rattle, starring Tobias's drawing
Tobias's marker drawing of a lopsided blue teapot with a very long crooked spout and two dot eyes, used as the hero of his DoodleTale storybook

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Tobias · 7 years old

Adventure

The Little Rattle

In the bright kitchen, Tobias stood by the stove and stared at the teapot. His lips were already making a small O, and before even one note came out, the lid gave a quick tick.

From the chair by the table, he tried again, this time covering his mouth with both hands. Still the teapot answered first, knocking its own lid in nervous little jumps.

He looked from the burner to the wooden board on the counter, and a new idea came to him. The teapot only went wild while it sat over the heat.

Tobias stood taller than before beside the teapot, now only warm on the wooden board. The lid was still, and his single whistle drifted in the air after he blew it on purpose.

DoodleTale personalized storybook about big feelings: The Crooked Way, starring Halle's drawing
Halle's crayon drawing of a round green beetle with six short stick legs and one wing much bigger than the other, used as the hero of her DoodleTale storybook

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Halle · 4 years old

Funny

The Crooked Way

In the garden, Halle wants straight flight. She zooms up after other beetles.

She flaps fast, very fast, WHOOSH. Boop, she tumbles through petals.

Halle sits still on warm dirt. Then she tilts wide, and sideways.

By evening, her circle reaches home. Halle grins in her crooked doorway.

DoodleTale personalized storybook about big feelings: What Stayed on the Wall, starring Osei's drawing
Osei's colored pencil drawing of a brown suitcase with two thin legs, a handle on top and a worried mouth, used as the hero of his DoodleTale storybook

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Osei · 6 years old

Bedtime

What Stayed on the Wall

In Osei's room, the suitcase gapes open, too full to close. Osei tugs it into the hall, and shirts puff up again.

He pushes the lid lower, but a bright sweater peeks out again. He walks on, more slowly now, while the suitcase waddles beside his shoes.

Osei holds up a heavy toy drum, then leaves it with the books. He folds the soft sweater back in and tucks the drawings underneath.

He hurries on through the late light, carrying the lighter suitcase carefully. At last he arrives, late but smiling, with his closed suitcase in hand.

Children put things on paper long before they can say them, and the strange parts are usually the message: the body too big for the legs, the eyes far too large, the color that belongs to nothing real. Every AI model we tried wanted to fix those. Ours is built to keep them, because a corrected drawing is not your child's drawing anymore. Upload the creature they made and it becomes the illustrated hero of an original story with your child as the named lead. You will see the whole book free in a few minutes. A digital download is $9.99, and a printed softcover is $29.99 with free shipping.

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The same drawing works for any of these. There are occasion pages too, for when the date is the reason.

Questions, answered

Books about feelings from kids drawings, explained

Three reading levels, ages 3 to 8. Adventure, Funny or Bedtime.

Let the strange proportions stand.

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