The atelier
Step Into the Studio Where Your Book Gets Made
Our Little Book is a small studio for building a personalized, illustrated storybook starring the real people and pets you love, in a warm watercolor-and-ink look. Here’s the whole path, start to finish, with every choice that’s yours along the way. A couple of stops you can try right now, with no account and nothing saved.
Free to start. Read a whole example book before you buy.
Want the full picture? Take the studio tour to walk the whole arc and try every editor.
What you’ll make
A keepsake storybook, built to look like the people in it.
Two benches, one studio
Pick Your Pace at the Door
It’s one create flow, and you choose how hands-on to be. Let us do the making, or build and shape every detail yourself. You can start one way and shift to the other anytime.
Easy mode
Type a Sentence, We Draft the Whole Book
Share who it's for and a moment worth keeping, or just type the gist, and we draft the cast and the story for you. You bring the cast to life and can shape anything before a page is drawn.
- Name the person and the moment, or type one line
- We draft the cast and the story for you
- Bring the cast to life, then page through and keep it
Creator mode
Build and Shape Every Detail Yourself
Build your characters, shape every story, and review and edit every page until it's exactly right. It's yours, top to bottom.
- Design each character and save them to reuse
- Guide the plot, page by page
- Rewrite the words or redraw a picture anytime
Underneath, it’s one studio you can step into at three depths, all here now. Spark drafts from a single sentence, Studio guides you through a few choices, and the Atelier hands you full control. Pick one at the door, and you can switch as you go.
Spark
Type the gist, and we draft the cast and the story for you.
Studio
The guided way: a few choices, and your book takes shape.
Atelier
Full control: shape the whole plan and sign off before a page is drawn.
To begin
Who’s It For?
Every book starts with a person and a reason to make it.
For someone you love
A gift, a surprise, a way to say you were thinking of them.
Together, side by side
Make it with them, choosing each piece as you go.
Start a Book
Start by telling us who this book is for.
Choose its shape
One Story, or a Collection
How much of their world do you want to hold in one book?
A single story
One tale, written and illustrated start to finish.
A collection of five
Five stories bound together into one keepsake anthology.
Build the cast
Everyone Who Belongs in It
Build each character once, and they look just like themselves on every page. Have a go with the real builder below.
The people you love
Family, friends, the whole crew.
Pets, real and adored
The dog, the cat, the goldfish who runs the house.
Anyone you dream up
A dragon, a fairy, a brave little robot. If they belong, they’re in.
New Character
- Basics
- Age
- Body
- Face
- Hair
- Finish
The basics
Start with who they are. Skip anything that doesn’t fit.
This is the real builder, just without an account. Nothing here is saved.
Shape the story
As Guided as You Like
Tell us the story you want, or tell us the feeling and let Quill find it.
Name the moments
The first day of school, the big move, the wobbly tooth. We write right to them.
Give us the feeling
A sentence about what you’re after, and Quill takes it from there.
Look it over
Approve the Outline First
Before a single page is painted, you see the plan laid out. Change anything that isn’t right, then give the nod.
Make it yours
Every Page, in Your Hands
A whole draft arrives, written and illustrated. Page through it and change anything: rewrite the words, or redraw a picture, until each page is just right. Here’s a finished book to page through now.
A real finished book
The Big Trip with Mimi and Papa
2 stories, 11 pages, written and illustrated start to finish.
A magical day at a great theme park with Mimi and Papa: a castle, a carousel, a parade, and fireworks worth remembering forever.
Read the Whole Anthology
Keep it
A Keepsake, Your Way
Every book is digital first, yours the moment it's done and ready to download print-ready. A hardcover book is coming.
A digital keepsake
Yours to download print-ready and keep the moment it’s done.
A hardcover book
Want one in your hands? Your finished book downloads print-ready, and a hardcover book is on the way.
You've seen the whole path: who the book is for, the characters who fill it, and a finished book to page through. Your own is a few quiet minutes away.
Go on, give it a press.
The cast shelf
Build a Character Once. Keep Them Forever.
Every character you build is saved to your own library, ready to star in the next book without building them again.
Your character library
Build a person, a pet, the whole family once. Each one waits in your library, ready to drop into any book you make next.
Share with family
Send a character to family and it shows up in their account too, so cousins can co-star in each other’s books, all looking just like themselves.
Use it, or make it your own
A character shared with you can be used exactly as it is, kept current by its owner. Or you can make your own version and take it somewhere new.
On the workbench
Crafted, Start to Finish
The big steps are simple. It’s the small things, all the way through, that make a book worth keeping.
Consistent on every page
Each character is painted once, then that same art carries onto every page, so they look like themselves from the first to the last.
Every page is quietly checked
Before you ever see a page, it’s checked for the small things that break a book: a slipped face, a stranger who wandered in, an extra finger, stray text. Anything off is redrawn and checked again until it’s right.
Two ways to build a character
Pick from guided, illustrated traits, or just describe a pet or a creature in your own words. Whichever way fits.
Your whole cast, welcome
People, pets, a well-loved stuffed animal, even a dragon. If they belong in the story, they belong in the book.
Watch Quill paint, page by page
Quill writes and illustrates the book page by page, and you can watch each one appear as it’s made.
Ink redraws what you ask
If a page isn’t quite right, tell Ink what to change. It studies the painting, listens to your note, and redraws just that page.
The file is yours
The moment your book is finished, it’s yours to download and keep, print-ready. A hardcover book is coming.
Saved as you go
Step away whenever you like. A free account holds your place, and you pick the book back up right where you left it.
Step Inside and Start Building.
Easy or hands-on, it’s the same studio. Free to start. Read a whole example book before you buy.
Start a Book
A book, just because
A Personalized Birthday Book
Someone you love always has a birthday coming.
