Room for Two Stars
starring Ava
A personalized hardcover picture book for a child, a grandparent or the whole family. The story and illustrations are created from your description. Review the characters, manuscript and finished pages before ordering.
Hardcover from US$49, postage included to Canada, the US and the UK. Tax added where it applies.
Free to create and preview. AI-generated story and illustrations. No photo upload.
See how written descriptions become characters and stories. These fictional examples show the complete book, with readable story text. Your book starts with your own people and ideas, and you review the whole preview before deciding to buy.
Ava, her mum Carmen, her dad Luis, and baby Diego
Ava had a lap to sit in and a book with a bent corner. Then the baby came, and she had to work out where she fits now that someone smaller needs it more.
36 pages · 8 × 8 inches square
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Don Quixote and his servant Andres
An old knight in dented armour sees three white towers on the ridge that were not there before, puts a washbasin on his head because a helmet helps you think, and rides out.
36 pages · 8 × 8 inches square
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Kai and his mums, Mama and Mum
Kai's first night in a tent, by a lake, with Mama and Mum. The walls are only cloth and every sound comes through, until they find the star they look for every year.
36 pages · 8 × 8 inches square
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Their favourite boots, their curiosity, the companion they want beside them. Describe what matters to you, then review how those details shape the characters and story.
Their interests, relationships and the kind of adventure you choose can shape the plot. Read the manuscript and request changes before the pages are illustrated.
A sister, a grandparent, the dog — describe the companions you want in the adventure. Review their character designs before the story is written.
A dragon to befriend, a mystery to solve, a new baby or a first day. Ask for an original fantasy adventure or a story about everyday family life. Use the preview to check details and request changes before ordering.
Describe the characters, their interests and the adventure you want. Choose who will be in the story and the reading level it should use.
We draw everyone and show you. Don't like a face? Ask for a change in your own words — shorter hair, a red coat — and we redraw just that one.
The whole story, written for the reading age you choose, before a single page is illustrated. If it isn't right, say what to change.
Every page, illustrated. Change any page you like and we redraw that one page — free, like the rest of making the book. Only then do you decide whether to have it printed.
It takes about twenty minutes, and you can close the tab and come back.
Drawn the way they are this year — the hair, the glasses, the dog.
Printed on 170 gsm silk paper and bound into a matt-laminated printed case, so it stands on a shelf like any picture book.
Facing pages share one illustration, so each opening is a single wide picture rather than two half ones.
Square, which suits a picture that spreads wide, or portrait, which suits a taller scene. Both are hardcover.
A longer book has room for more of the story before it has to resolve.
US$49 for 36 pages, US$59 for 48. Extra copies of the same book cost less — US$29 and US$34. Postage included to Canada, the US and the UK; tax added where it applies. Base prices are in USD; checkout can offer a local currency price.
| Destination | Production / handling | Delivery after dispatch |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 0–2 | 10–15 |
| United States | 0–2 | 7–10 |
| United Kingdom | 0–2 | 7–10 |
Creation and review happen before these estimates begin. These are estimates, not guaranteed arrival dates. Allow extra time for holidays or a date that matters.
The writing and the drawing are done by AI. Every word and every picture is then put in front of you, and nothing is printed — or charged — until you say yes.
The characters, before there is a story. The whole story, before anything is drawn. Then every illustrated page. Don't like one? Say what to change in your own words and that page is redrawn, free — that one page, not a new book.
Each illustration is inspected automatically: the right people, drawn the same way they were on the last page, anatomy that makes sense, and no stray lettering. Pages that fail are drawn again.
Characters are drawn from what you write — curly hair, glasses, a hearing aid, a wheelchair — never from a picture. There is no upload button anywhere in this service, because there is nothing behind it: no photograph of your child is collected, stored, or used to train anything, and no real face is ever reproduced.
Choose the language when you make the book, and the whole thing is written in it — the story, not just the name. So a grandparent can read it aloud in the language they think in.
One language per book — whichever one it will be read in.
Penwynn makes personalized hardcover picture books. The story and illustrations are created with AI from your written descriptions. Review the characters, manuscript and finished pages before ordering.
A 36-page hardcover is US$49 and a 48-page hardcover is US$59, in either size: 8 × 8 inches square or 8 × 11 inches portrait. Extra copies of the same book cost less: US$29 and US$34. Base prices are in USD. Postage is included to Canada, the US and the UK; checkout can offer a local currency price, and sales tax is added where it applies.
No. Making a book is free. You read the whole story and see every illustrated page before you decide whether to have it printed, and nothing is charged until you do.
Yes. Penwynn writes the story and draws the illustrations with AI, and we would rather say so plainly than have you wonder. What makes that work is that you check it: you approve the characters, then read the whole story before anything is drawn, then see every illustrated page — and you can have any page redrawn by saying what to change. Every illustration is also checked automatically before you see it, for whether the right people are in it, drawn the way they were on the last page, with no stray lettering. Nothing is printed or charged until you have seen the finished book.
Paediatricians recommend reading with children from birth. And when an AI can answer almost anything, the slow habit of a story read aloud is one of the few things that still has to be done the long way.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends shared reading beginning at birth and continuing at least through kindergarten, for language, thinking and the relationship it builds.
A child read one book a day hears an estimated 290,000 more words by age five than a child who is never read to.
In 2025, just 32.7% of UK 8- to 18-year-olds said they enjoyed reading in their free time, the lowest level in twenty years.
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In small studies, toddlers and their parents smiled and laughed more with a book made for the child, and preschoolers learned more of the new words in a book's personalized pages. Hearing the same story again and again is also how new words stick. In our view, a book about them, their people and what is happening in their life is the one they bring back to you.
Kucirkova, Messer & Whitelock, 2013Kucirkova, Messer & Sheehy, 2014Horst, Parsons & Bryan, 2011What the studies found, and their limits →
Start with their name. You can stop at any point — nothing is charged until you say so.
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