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THEIR OWN ADVENTURE

They are not reading about a hero. They are on page one.

Say who is in it and roughly what happens. Infinight writes a story nobody has read before, at their age, and draws it with the people and pets they know.

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No card, no password. One book to keep, whatever you decide after.

Rosie and Lucas stand in a wet street at dusk in their raincoats and wellies, Comet beside them, the harbour lights glowing behind.

  • One line is enough

    A green light at the end of the pier. A lift that goes to a floor that is not there. Give one line, or pick a kind of story, and the rest is built from it, with your child at the centre and not in the background.

  • Their people, their places

    Brothers, best friends, grandparents, the dog with one ear up, the street they live on. Everyone you save can be cast, and comes back with the same face in the next book.

  • A shelf that becomes a series

    The cast is kept, so the second adventure starts with everyone already in it. Children notice when the same dog turns up again.

  • Pitched for their age

    Tension, length and vocabulary follow the age you set. A three year old gets a gentle wander, a nine year old gets chapters and a proper mystery.

From page one

Then Comet stopped scratching. His crooked ear went straight up, stiff as a mast.

"Listen," said Rosie.

Nobody in that family ever argued with that ear.

Tobi in his red helmet and Ada in her denim jacket wait by a lift on a tower-block walkway at dusk, a small brass crab between them.Ada kneels at an open panel of old wires, Tobi lights it with a torch, and the brass crab looks up.At night on the roof of the tower block, Tobi leans on the wall above the city lights while Grandma Ify and Ada stand by the open hatch, the crab at their feet.
Three pages from The Thirteenth Floor, a second demo book made in Infinight: Ada, her little brother Tobi and Grandma Ify, written for an eight year old.
The last step of making a book: four art styles to choose from, watercolour, cartoon, papercut and coloured pencil, then how long the story should be.

What this is not

A portrait. Your child will recognise the coat, the hair and the dog, but the drawing is of a child like them, not of their face. That is deliberate: copying a child's face raises consent questions we would rather not answer badly.

Other ways into a story

  • The same moment as a watercolour page: the girl mid-jump above the splash, her mum laughing in the water, her brother and the dog beside the cool box on the jetty.

    MEMORIES KEPT

    A real day, kept as a book

    Your photos of the summer, the first day at school, the dog, drawn as pages in your order and your words.

    About memory books
  • In a stone workshop at the top of a tower block, a small boy in a red bicycle helmet cheers as an old broom sprouts twig legs and picks up a bucket.

    YOUR CHILD IN A CLASSIC

    The tale you grew up with

    Goethe's broom, Grimm's forest, Aesop's hare. The old words stay, and your child walks in between them.

    About classics
    • Starting at the big school on Monday
    • A baby sister is coming in the spring
    • Moving to a house with a red door

    A BIG MOMENT

    For the week everything changes

    School on Monday, a baby on the way, a move, a goodbye. A gentle story to walk through it once first.

    About life moments

What every book gets

Tonight's story could have your child in it

It takes about ten minutes to make the first one, and you keep it whether or not you ever pay us a cent.

Make your first book, free

No card, no password. One book to keep, whatever you decide after.