Celebrate your unique family with a custom storybook that features everyone as characters in an original adventure, drawn from your photos. Perfect for bringing families together through the magic of personalized storytelling.
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Every family has its own dynamics, traditions, and adventures. A custom family storybook captures what makes your family special, featuring parents, children, siblings, and grandparents, drawn from your photos with their names in the text, in a story that reflects your real relationships and inside jokes.
The same page at every reading level. Pick one to see how the story reads.
Look at the pond! Quack, quack, splash! Little ducks swim fast. Daddy points down. Mommy points too. Jaxon claps his hands. He points at them! Hello, green duck!
Dad rolled the stroller toward the pond. "Look at that parade!" Dad cheered. Feathered ducks paddled across the water. Mom made funny quacking sounds. "Say hello, Jaxon!" Mom laughed. Jaxon pointed his tiny finger. A green bird splashed right nearby. Jaxon squealed with pure joy!
Dad wheeled the stroller right up to the pond's warm stone edge. Sunlight danced across the gentle ripples as ducks drifted closer. "Look right there, buddy," Dad whispered, pointing toward an emerald-headed mallard. Mom crouched down beside them, gesturing toward the sunlit water. Jaxon leaned forward eagerly against his safety harness. He jabbed his tiny finger at the bobbing birds, bubbling over with adventurous glee.
Jaxon leaned forward against the harness, extending one small finger toward the water where mallards carved silent silver wakes. "Look how easily they share the current," his father whispered, crouching close while his mother smiled through the afternoon glow. The stone bank held the day's warmth, grounding the family against the distant, unyielding rumble of metropolitan traffic. In that gilded pocket of green, the city paused, allowing a child to discover that wonder was already woven into home.
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Pick a theme for your crew, or describe the trip, tradition, or inside joke you want it built on:
From a single photo to a professionally printed book — about 15 minutes of your time.
Upload photos
Pick your style
Approve characters & story
Approve illustrations
Printed & shipped
Most personalized books put one child in a story and stop there. A family book puts the whole household in it: the parent who always drives, the kid who always asks the questions, the grandparent who knows the way. It reads like your family because it was written from your description of your family.
Families use them as a keepsake of a specific year, a gift for the grandparents with everyone in it, or a reunion memento with the cousins. Order it once and it becomes the book that gets pulled out when the whole family is in the room.
“I love how u can have many people and build ur own story! U can even choose the animation and text style.”
Julie
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“Such a fun way to make bedtime stories a little more exciting! I got it for my youngest but it quickly became a hit with all 3 of my kids.”
Tugboat Boards
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“I used Genie in a Book as a gift to various family members – they all loved it!”
Patrick A.
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Choose how their custom story comes to life.
Personalized Coloring Book
A full storybook they can color.
Same custom story and cover, printed in black & white on coloring-friendly paper.
Paperback Storybook
A full-color story to read together.
The same custom story and illustrations in a lightweight, softcover format.
Hardcover Keepsake
The keepsake families choose most.
A premium, durable hardcover made to be loved and saved for years.
You review your book before it's printed.
No printing happens until you approve every page.
How many people, who counts, who is the hero, and timing for a gathering.
Upload photos of everyone and turn your family into the heroes of an adventure you'll read together for years.
Create your family's storyTakes about 15 minutes · Up to 4 characters
