A storybook starring your little one.
Every story needs someone at the middle of it. Yours is asleep down the hall.
Send us a photo. We draw your child into a twelve-spread adventure, print it as a hardcover and post it to your door.
Start with one photo34,90 € hardcover, excl. shipping
your photothe same child, drawn
Drag the edge across.
It has to look like them. Or it isn't their book.
We draw your child once, from your photo, and show you before anything else happens — from the front, from the side, running. Nothing else is made until you have said yes to that drawing.
Then it is the drawing on every page. The child on page eleven is the child on page one, in the same shirt, with the same hair.
“that's me. that's my rocket.”Dave, 4
Pick what the story is about.
Every Toto book is built around one idea. Take one of ours, or write your own in a sentence — a first day, a fear, a habit you have been working on since spring.
Something they are learning
- first day at nursery
- sleeping in their own room
- brushing teeth
- learning to ride a bike
- a new baby at home
Something they are becoming
- brave in the dark
- honest when it is hard
- patient
- kind to the smaller ones
- able to say sorry
- …or write your own
Four books. Four different stories.
Each one starts from a different child's photo, in the style their parent chose. And your child does not have to be the one at the centre of it — the family dog works just as well, and so does a drawing they made and refuse to throw away.
Learning to be brave
A treasure hunt that goes wrong first. Soft watercolour.
A first big walk
The bridge over the stream, and back before dark. Modelled 3-D.
The family dog as the hero
Made for a boy who wanted the book to be about his dog, not himself. Needle-felt.
Afraid of the dark
The monster turns out to have been lonely. Ink and gouache.
How it works. About ten minutes of your time.
1
Send one to three photos
Ones where you can see their face. A first name and an age. That is the whole form.
2
Pick the story and the style
One idea for the story, one of the art styles, and a look at your child drawn in it.
3
Read it tonight, hold it next week
All twelve spreads on screen in a few minutes. Order the hardcover and we print it and post it within seven days.
And then it is a real book.
“it's heavy”Dave, 4
Hardcover
Board cover, sewn pages, 21 × 21 cm. Thick enough to be read again. And again. And again.
Twelve spreads, all yours to change
Every picture and every line can be changed before you pay a cent. The art style too — this one is needle-felt.
What happens to your photos
We use them to draw your child and for nothing else. We never sell them or share them, and they are deleted the moment you ask.
“The first time he saw himself in the story he went completely quiet. Then he made me read it four times before bed.”Marta, Dave's mother · Lisbon
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