MyLittleStories
Personalised illustrated storybooks

Where your child becomes the hero of their own story.

Personalised illustrated storybooks across three story worlds — magical adventures, real-life moments, and the big moments that matter.

Hardcover from £26.99 · Instant ebook from £6.99

Begin their story

✨ Loved by our first families · 🇬🇧 Made in Manchester

How it works

Minutes from your photo to your child’s first adventure.

Four polaroid photographs of a family laid out on a soft cream surface, ready to be turned into storybook characters
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Upload your photos

One for each character you want in the story — your child, siblings, grandparents, even the family dog.

Four polaroid cards showing watercolour storybook character portraits of a family
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Meet your characters

Choose your illustration style — classic watercolour or vivid 3D — and we'll bring each character to life for your approval.

Three labelled hardcover storybooks representing themed adventures, real life moments, and big moments
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Choose your adventure

Pick from a magical theme, capture a real-life moment, or guide them through a big moment.

A beautifully bound personalised hardcover children's storybook with the family illustrated on the cover
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Receive your book

Instant ebook from £6.99 or printed hardcover from £26.99, delivered in 5-10 working days.

See your child in a story — before you start

Curious how your child will look as a storybook character? Create a free account and try our Playground — upload a photo, pick a style, and see them illustrated as a hero. When you’re ready, bring that character straight into their first story.

Try the Playground

Three story worlds

Choose where your child’s adventure takes place.

The Enchanted Forest themed storybook with a family illustrated on the cover

Themed Adventures

Magical journeys with our story friends. Ember the dragon, Marina the mermaid, and others — each adventure starring your little one alongside a magical companion.

Begin a magical adventure
Olive's Adventures storybook showing a child swimming in a pool

Real Life

Capture a real moment in their life — a holiday, a birthday, a first day. You describe each page, we illustrate your child as the star.

Capture a real moment
Big School storybook showing two sisters at the school gates

Big Moments

A gentle story for a life moment that matters — starting school, a new sibling, moving home, a sleepover, a holiday.

Mark a big moment
Bubbles, a friendly purple dragon character with green eyes, pink wings, and a spotted belly — an example of an imaginary character a child might create

Build your child’s own cast of friends

Grab your child and let them dream up someone all their own — a dragon in slippers, a brave little fox, a fairy with a sparkly tail. Whatever they can imagine, you can bring it to life as their very own character, ready to come along on the adventure.

And imaginary friends aren’t just for one book. Once a character has joined a story, it comes to life on Imaginary Island — a place where the characters your child created live on, going on new adventures and meeting creations from other families. Like toys that never stop being played with, every imaginary friend stays busy, finding new stories to live in.

Create your first character

Your child’s photos, your peace of mind

We know trusting anyone with your child’s photo is a big deal. Here’s exactly what happens to it.

  • Deleted within minutes.

    As soon as we've created your child's illustrated character, the original photo is gone from our systems — usually within seconds.

  • Never used for anything else.

    Photos are only ever used to create your child's character. They're never used for AI training, marketing, or shared with third parties — ever.

  • Encrypted end-to-end.

    All photos are encrypted in transit and at rest from the moment they leave your device.

  • Wiped automatically if you don't finish.

    If you start the process and don't complete it, everything is wiped within 24 hours — no exceptions.

  • UK GDPR + ICO Children's Code compliant.

    Built to the strictest UK and EU child privacy standards from day one.

Mr Bramble, a friendly badger storyteller, sitting at his writing desk in a cottage workshop, quill in paw, working on a children's storybook

Made by Rob and Mr Bramble

MyLittleStories is a small family-run brand based in Manchester. Every story is shaped with care, beautifully illustrated in your choice of classic watercolour or vivid 3D style, and printed in the UK on premium paper.

I built this because I wanted my own children to see themselves as the hero of stories worth keeping. Mr Bramble is the storyteller who lives at the heart of every book — quill in paw, working away in his cottage workshop, helping each story find its way onto the page.

— Rob, founder of MyLittleStories

What’s in every book

  • Hardcover printed in the UK on premium paper
  • Choose your illustration style — classic watercolour or vivid 3D
  • Approve your character before you pay
  • Delivered in 5-10 working days
  • Read instantly as an ebook, or keep a printed hardcover
  • Up to 4 characters per story
  • Printed on FSC-certified paper
  • Photos deleted within minutes of character creation
  • Reprint or refund if anything's not perfect

Frequently asked

The questions we hear most often.

Choose a story world, pick your illustration style — classic watercolour or vivid 3D — and upload photos of your characters. We illustrate your characters in your chosen style and show you the character avatar to approve before anything else. Once you're happy with the likeness, we write and illustrate a personalised storybook starring your child. The ebook is £6.99; if you love it, you can order a printed hardcover from £26.99 (plus £3.95 UK delivery).