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YOUR CHILD IN A CLASSIC

The story you grew up with, and this time they are in it.

Pick a tale or a poem that belongs to everyone, from Grimm to Goethe. The old words stay where they are, your child walks in between them, and the pictures put them on every page.

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

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.The boy stares at two brooms, each with a bucket, beside a copper tank filled to the brim.Grandma comes back through the door in her headwrap and yellow cardigan; the boy stands on a stool above the wet floor and the two brooms lean quietly by the wall.
Three pages from a book made in Infinight from Goethe's Der Zauberlehrling (1797). Tobi and Grandma Ify are the tower family's saved characters, stepping into the old poem.

  • The old words, kept

    Rhymes and refrains stay as they were written. Your child's lines are woven in around them, not over them.

  • Stories that belong to everyone

    Fairy tales, fables and poems old enough to be free for anyone to retell: Grimm, Andersen, Aesop, Goethe.

  • Your cast steps in

    The children, grandparents and friends you have saved walk into the classic as themselves, drawn from the same sheets as every other book.

  • Read aloud, sent, kept

    Like every book, a classic can be read aloud by a narrator or a family voice, sent to a grandparent with a link, and downloaded as an EPUB or a PDF.

From the book, in Goethe's German

„Willst's am Ende gar nicht lassen?“

Tobi packte den Stiel mit beiden Händen und knickte ihn entzwei. Krack!

Einen Augenblick war es still. Dann standen da zwei Besen. Und jeder nahm sich einen Eimer.

Reference sheet for Tobi: front, side and back views in his red bicycle helmet, blue hoodie and orange trousers.Reference sheet for Grandma Ify: front, side and back views in her orange headwrap, grey shawl and blue patterned dress.
Tobi's and Grandma Ify's reference sheets, saved for The Thirteenth Floor. The same sheets drew them into Goethe's poem.

Worth knowing

You name the classic yourself in your idea; there is no shelf of fairy tales to pick from yet, and it works best with a story that is well known. Keep to stories old enough to be free for anyone to retell: a modern favourite is somebody else's book.

Other ways into a story

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

    THEIR OWN ADVENTURE

    A story nobody has told yet

    A lighthouse with a nest in it, a lift that stops at floor thirteen. You give one line, and they get the starring role.

    About adventures
  • 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
    • 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.