PageCub

What it does

Not a template. A fully custom illustrated storybook built around your child — original story, original art, delivered by email in about an hour. Hardcopy also available shipped to your door.

Original stories. Never templated. Commission one in minutes. Tell us who they are. PageCub writes their story from scratch, with custom illustrations to match, and delivers it to your inbox. A keepsake they will recognize themselves in. Free preview before you commit. No subscription. One payment per book. Usually ready in about an hour. Aurelia was NOT sleepy. Not even a little bit. She stood in her favorite yellow dress and her rainbow rainboots. Her brown hair tumbled past her shoulders, curling at the tips, half of it flopping right over one eye the way it always did. She bounced on her toes. She wiggled her fingers. She made a silly face at her stuffed bunny. "Bedtime, sweet girl!"…from pagecub.com

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