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A picture book with the grandchildren in it, a gift for granny and grandad

A picture book drawn in watercolour from family photos. One grandchild has the lead, brothers and sisters join in, and granny and grandad are in the story too.

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from £60 · Try it free first: the cover and three pages, before you pay anything

A page from the book: a boy makes apple cake with his granny in her kitchen.
Example pages, with made-up families.
  • Free previewthe cover and three pages, before you pay
  • Checked by a personevery page, before we print
  • Leaf through a whole bookall 24 pages of Oliver’s book
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  • Granny’s living room and grandad’s garden can be in it, drawn from your photos.
  • No photos of the grandchildren to hand? Send the parents a link; they send the photos and don’t need to make an account.
  • You see the cover and three pages free first. If it doesn’t look like them, you pay nothing.

What a page looks like

Example pages, drawn from the photos of an invented family.

Example pages, with made-up families.

From photo to page

Look at the kitchen cabinets, the corner sofa and the washing line.

  1. the photosPhoto of Oliver, a six-year-old with short ginger hair and freckles in a navy hoodiePhoto of Teddy, a light-brown plush bear with a red bow tiePhoto of Oliver’s bedroom, still empty: a white wooden single bed with a navy duvet in a starry pattern, a window seat with cushions under a sash window, a bookshelf of picture books, bunting on the wall and a cream rug on pine floorboards
    Page 1: Oliver sits up on his bed in his striped pyjamas, Teddy beside him, the sash window behind them. “Rattle, rattle, rattle!”
    Page 1. Oliver, Teddy and his own bedroom, from these three photos.
  2. the photosPhoto of dad: receding light-brown hair, clean-shaven, grey t-shirtPhoto of the kitchen: cream shaker cabinets, black worktop, wooden table with a bench
    Page 3: Oliver at the kitchen table, spoon in mid-air, as dad looks up from the other side of the kitchen with a mug in his hand. “Bang! What was that?”
    Page 3. Dad and the kitchen: the same cabinets, bench and window.
  3. the photosPhoto of OliverPhoto of the garden: lawn, brown fence, white shed, washing line, picnic table
    Page 4: Oliver holds up a pillowcase in the garden as it puffs up like a balloon. “The washing’s gone wild.”
    Page 4. The fence, the washing line and the picnic table from the photo.
  4. the photosPhoto of TeddyPhoto of the living room: grey corner sofa, coffee table, television on the wall, bay window with blinds
    Page 17: Oliver on the grey corner sofa under a blanket, head on one side, listening to the wind, Teddy lying close by on the floor
    Page 17. The corner sofa and the bay window, Teddy with his bow.
  5. the photosPhoto of mumPhoto of dad: receding light-brown hair, clean-shaven, grey t-shirtPhoto of Oliver
    Page 14: Oliver, mum and dad hold the kite string together while the yellow kite flies high above them, Teddy sitting at their feet
    Page 14. Mum, dad and Oliver, all holding one kite string.

Every book is drawn in watercolour with AI image tools, from your own photos, and checked by a person.

Oliver and his family don’t exist: their photos were made with AI, so we can show a whole book without a real child’s face. The pages are unedited, straight from a real production run.

Leaf through Oliver’s whole book

How it works

Three steps. We do the rest.

  1. Choose your favourite family photos

    Of your family, your pet and the rooms where the story happens. About ten minutes.

  2. See the cover and three pages free

    Usually ready in about 15 minutes. Doesn’t look like you? Then you pay nothing.

  3. Approve, print, deliver

    After you approve the whole book, it usually arrives within 7 to 11 working days.

Hardcover or layflat?

The same book, two kinds of paper, printed in Europe. You choose after the free preview.

The hardcover picture book open on a table: the pages curve towards the spine
curves at the spine

Hardcover

properly bound, paper pages

£60

Our pick
The layflat picture book open on a table: the double page lies completely flat
lies completely flat

Thick pages

thick pages that open completely flat

£80

Pages24 + cover24 + cover
Paperordinary paperthick photo paper
Double page lies flatnoyes
Our pick for the youngestnoyes
Second copy, same order£33£49
Deliveryfreefree

Free delivery in the United Kingdom.

A second copy for granny and grandad: add £33 to the same order — 45% less than ordering a second book on its own.

You can add the book as a colouring book, digital or printed, from £8.50. See an example colouring book

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Photo of Teddy, a light-brown plush bear with a red bow tiePage 10: Oliver kneels in the grass of the field putting his red bobble hat back on; Teddy sits beside him in his red bow tie
Teddy in the photo and on page 10: the red bow tie is back on, too.

A person checks every page

Before anything is printed, one of us lays every page next to your photos. Does Oliver look like Oliver? Is Teddy wearing his red bow tie?

  • You approve the whole book, with one free round of changes.
  • Your photos are deleted automatically, at the latest 60 days after delivery.

What parents ask us

What if it doesn’t look like us?

You’ll see the cover and the first three pages first, free. If it doesn’t look like you, don’t order and you pay nothing. Once you order, we’ll draw the rest and you’ll see the whole book; ask for a change on any page. Anything that doesn’t match your photos or what you told us, we always fix for free; a new wish can go in one free round. It goes to the printer once you’ve approved it.

How long does it take?

The first pages are usually on your screen in about 15 minutes, and you’ll get an email as soon as they’re ready. If you order, we’ll draw the rest: usually within a few hours, and within 24 hours at the latest, and we’ll email you as soon as the whole book is ready. Once you’ve approved it, it goes to the printer. After you approve the whole book, it usually arrives within 7 to 11 working days.

Where do you deliver?

To addresses in the United Kingdom, and delivery is free: it’s included in the price. After you approve the whole book, it usually arrives within 7 to 11 working days.

What happens to our photographs?

They’re used to draw your book and nothing else. They go to Google in the United States, which does the drawing and keeps what we send for up to 55 days to detect abuse, and one of us compares the drawings with the photographs before the book is printed — nobody else receives them. We never keep where a photograph was taken: that information is removed the moment it’s uploaded. Then they’re deleted automatically: 60 days after your book arrives. If you never order, they go 30 days after the preview. The whole route is on fablebook.co.uk/photos.

What age is it for?

One to about six. For the youngest, the thick layflat pages survive rather more.

Does the AI learn from our child’s face?

No. We don’t train any AI on your photos, and there’s no face profile. We draw with Google’s Gemini on a paid business account. Under those paid terms, Google doesn’t use what we send to improve its own AI.

All questions, including AI and privacy
The last page: Oliver asleep in his own bedroom, Teddy beside him and the red hat on the pillow. “Shh. Oliver is asleep.”
The last page: the same room, at the end of the day.

A book about your family, for every bedtime

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