For long-distance grandparents · Ages 3–8
Miles away, you only get a few minutes on a screen. A Booku book puts you inside their bedtime — your face in the pictures, your name in the story — read again and again, until you're not the grandparent far away. You're part of their world.
Watch yourself become part of their bedtime in minutes — free, before you pay a penny. No sign-up. No card.
Free to see it. €6.99 for the digital book.
Peek inside a Booku
Inside spread❤️ The idea is simply wonderful — giving a child not an ordinary present but something special that will stay with him for many years. I think our grandson will find it very enjoyable and interesting to read, and for us it is also a fond memory of his birthday. 🌷📖
Booku and Nadezhda, thank you for creating a fairy tale where my grandchildren are the main characters! ❤️📚🦖
When I received the book and opened it, I simply couldn’t put my emotions into words! This is no ordinary book, but a whole magical world where my boys, Kirey and Alexey, became the heroes of their very own adventure in the Valley of Dinosaurs! 🦕💚…
This book became a real gift for our family. It has kept for us what is dearest of all in the world. The author managed to capture, subtly and vividly, those happy moments we spent together. This book will now be our family’s most treasured possession.
It turned out to be a wonderful book! Interesting, kind, and pitched just right for the age! I am very grateful to the publisher, and I will definitely order more for my older grandchildren. They were thrilled and asked for books about themselves too))
The very highest recommendation!
The book was a present for Kolya. In the story he ends up at a school of wizards together with his brother and a friend, and becomes the main hero of the adventure. The best moment of all was when Kolya recognised himself on the pages. He loved the book so much that he even took it with him on holiday. A really unusual and personal present
This was the most unexpected present imaginable!
First you are surprised that it is a book about a girl (our child cannot stand fairy tales or anything magical, she wants realism in everything); then you refuse to believe the coincidence that it is about a girl who dances (we had only just started dance classes); then you notice that the heroine has your child’s name; and at the end you realise that even the picture looks like her!…
Choose the look
Two real photos — a grandmother and her grandson — drawn in each of our three polished styles. You pick the style, and we work hard to keep both of them recognisable page to page.
One pair, three polished styles
Digital Illustration
Tap a style to see it. The illustrations are AI-drawn, so likeness can vary a little between pages — any picture can be redrawn.
What you get
A full illustrated children's book — a bedtime story starring your grandchild, with you woven in, built from the details you share. Not a template with a name pasted in.
Upload a few photos and you appear in the illustrations alongside your grandchild — so every night they turn the pages, they see you.
Pick from three polished styles: soft watercolour, warm digital illustration or a true-to-life photo look. Whichever you choose, your grandchild (and you) stay unmistakably recognisable — in one consistent look across all 26 pages.
I'm a book and magazine designer. Before a hardcover goes to press I prepare the illustrations for print and proofread the whole thing myself — so what arrives on the shelf is a book, not a print-out.
It makes a birthday gift, a holiday present, or simply something to send your grandchild when you live far apart.
Two ways to read it
Ready today€6.99one-off
Yours to keep, on any device
Ready about 10–15 minutes after you pay. We email you a link to your book — download the PDF and read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or forward the file to anyone in the family.
+€33.00one-off
On top of the digital book · shipping included
Add it later and the price is the same — €39.99 all in.
Thick matte pages, their name on the cover, and you inside the story. Add it when you buy, or any time after you’ve read the digital book.
Ordering for a birthday or holiday? The digital book arrives the same day; printing and shipping a hardcover takes about 2–3 weeks — so start early.
The digital book is a PDF — you can download and read it anywhere in the world.
We post printed hardcovers to 43 countries — most of Europe, the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, India and Türkiye.
The digital book downloads anywhere. And the hardcover can go straight to your grandchild instead, if they live somewhere on the list.
How it works
Four simple steps, about five minutes. Have photos ready of everyone who should be in the book.
Name, age, and who should be in the book — plus a few photos of them and of you, so we can capture the likenesses.
We work hardest on one thing: that a child looks at the page and knows it's them, and knows it's you. Judge that for yourself before you pay anything.
We email you the finished book. You can still change the text and regenerate any illustration afterwards.
Love it? Order a printed hardcover to your door — or straight to the child. Printing and shipping take about 2–3 weeks.
Sample books
These are books we made for our own family and friends, so you can see the style and quality. Yours will star you and your grandchild, built from your own photos and details.
Grandparents & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, with Grandma and Grandpa
Style & details
Grandma & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandma
Style & details
Grandma & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandma
Style & details
Grandpa & child
Real photos real book
Oliver, age 4, and Grandpa
Style & details
Real books, on camera
Why this exists
I live in Prague. My mum is 4,000 km away — we see her twice a year.
My son isn't a phone talker. He's always busy. The books are how he keeps up with his grandparents.
The boy in them is my son, the grandparents are our parents, the photos are ours.
I have worked on Booku for more than a year. I made 340 test books to get three things right: the child knows it is them and their family, the pictures stay the same from page to page, and there is a funny bit that makes them ask you to read it again.
— Nadya Tsech, I make personalised books for little readers
Before you decide
That's exactly why the preview is free — you judge the real art before you pay anything.
Build the whole thing and look at the actual cover for your grandchild. No card, no sign-up.
If the finished book isn't right, you get your money back. The risk is ours, not yours.
I'm a book and magazine designer by trade. Before any hardcover goes to press I prepare the illustrations for print and read the whole book through myself. The digital book is delivered straight away, without that pass.
Used only to illustrate your book — never sold, never shared, never used to train AI. Delete them anytime.
Read the digital book today, or have a hardcover printed and posted — to you, or straight to their door in a different country from the one you're ordering from.
See the countries we ship toEvery book is put together for one child from what you tell us — never batched, never templated. Write to us and a person answers, not a bot.
Before you decide
That's what the free preview is for: add a few photos and you'll see both of you before you decide. Likeness isn't perfect every time, so if a picture misses you can tell us what's wrong and have it redrawn — before or after you pay. If it's still not right, you don't pay.
There's one main character, but you can add up to seven more: siblings, grandparents, parents, friends, even pets — each drawn from their own photo. How many of them appear in the story depends on the plot: some of our ready-made stories have room for only one or two.
We use your photos only to illustrate your book — never sold, never shared, never used to train AI. We keep them so you can redraw art or reorder a print, and we delete them whenever you ask.
You see the preview free before paying anything, and there's a money-back guarantee on the full book. There's no way to lose money finding out.
If you can send a photo by phone, you can make the whole book. It's a few short questions and a photo, and we do the rest. Most people finish in about five minutes.
Tell us about your grandchild, add a few photos of them and you, and in a couple of minutes you'll see the cover of your own book.
Takes about 5 minutes. No sign-up, no card — you only decide once you've seen it.
Every book is drawn from scratch for one child: 14 original illustrations, including the cover.
