The first book your child actually wrote.
Most personalized kids' books just print their name on a template. We hand your child the pen — then we print the book they made.
Your child's first book is almost ready. Are you?
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How littleAuthors works
Your child picks
From characters and animals to colors and words. They make the calls. You're there to help — not to decide.
We print it
A real hardcover book, in their hands within days. Their name on the spine. Their choices on every page.
They read the book they made
The one they ask for at bedtime — because they wrote it.
Personalization is putting their name on it. Authorship is letting them decide what's inside.
There's a difference. Most personalized children's books drop your child's name into someone else's story. The illustrations were drawn for somebody else's kid. The choices were made by an algorithm.
littleAuthors is built around a single mechanic: your child chooses what goes on every page. What animal. What picture. What word. What happens next. We meet them where they are — toddlers (2–3) use voice and pictures, early readers (4–6) type their own words, and the platform handles the literacy gap so the choices stay theirs.
Then we print it. A real hardcover. With their name as the listed author.
That's the difference. And once your child holds it, you'll see it in their face.
Two things parents always ask
“Is AI writing the story?”
No. We built littleAuthors because we were worried about the opposite — kids handing creative work over to AI before they build the muscle to do it themselves. It helps with the parts that get in the way: cleaning up a sketch, sounding out a word, offering image options. The choices stay with the child. The story is theirs. AI is a tool, not the author.
“What does it cost?”
Hardcover books will be $30–40 at launch. Founding subscribers — that's everyone on this list — get a discount we won't offer publicly.
About the founders
Hi — we're Jodi and Elie, the founders of littleAuthors. We started this because we watched our own kids get excited about storytelling, then watched that excitement fade the moment a screen or a template took the choices away from them. We wanted a place where children could make something real — something they could hold — and feel, page by page, that their imagination belongs to them.
littleAuthors is built on one belief: kids are authors the moment we let them choose.
What early families are saying
And they're just excited to see their favorite things on the page, and they still created a book that's for them.
If we just introduce AI to kids so early, they'll never learn to think and be creative. But if you learn to think and be creative in tandem with it, it could be really good.
While you wait
tinyStories
Once a month, we'll send you one short creative activity to do with your child. About 20 minutes. Almost no materials. Built around how young kids actually think.
It's designed for ages 0–6, but plenty of grandparents, aunts, and family members subscribe too. A grandmother and a four-year-old can sit down together and both feel like they belong here.
It's free. We won't email more than monthly. And it's the same creative process the littleAuthors platform is built on — so by the time we launch, your child will already know what to do with a blank page.