Legacy Stories
Hand down the stories that live in your head: the farm, the recipe, the summer everything changed.
Picture books starring the people you love
Every family has a book in it.
Grandpa’s lake summers, the first day of preschool, the dragon your daughter swears lives in the laundry: turn any of them into an illustrated book made for one child.
- Milestones
Preschool – A Princess Adventure!For Priya, from Mum and Dad - Values
Room Under My UmbrellaFor Juno, from Grandma 
“I was ten, and the lake was the biggest thing I’d ever seen,” said Grandpa Joe. Amara swung her feet over the dock. “Bigger than you are now?” He laughed. “That summer, it was.”
The Summer Grandpa Learned to Swim
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Pick a starting place
Start with a memory, or a moment.
Most families begin with one of these two. You shape every page along the way.
Milestones & Learning
Get ready for the big stuff together: a new baby, a first day, goodbye to diapers, with your child as the hero.
Values
Say the important things in a story.
Kindness, faith, sharing, calming the storm inside: put what your family believes into words a child will ask to hear again.
How it works
From “once upon a time” to a finished book.
- 1
Tell us the story
A memory, a moment or a wild idea, in your own words.
- 2
Make the characters yours
Faces, names, the dog, the red wellies: choose how everyone looks.
- 3
Read every page first
You review the words, then the pictures, and change anything.
- 4
Keep your finished book
A finished book to read together, again and again.
Sample books
No two books on this shelf look alike.
Every family, child and story here is invented. Yours will look like yours.
- Legacy
Nonna’s Sunday SauceFor Luca, from Nonna Teresa - Legacy
Before You Were Born, There Was a FarmFor Hana, from Halmeoni - Milestones
Sharing MommyFor Oliver, from Mommy - Milestones
Lights Out, Little LionFor Ezra, from Abba 
Priya wore her crown to preschool, because princesses are brave on new days. At the painting table a boy sat all alone, so she made him a crown too.
Preschool – A Princess Adventure!- Values
The Kitten and the Christmas Tree: Emmy’s First ChristmasFor Emmy, from Grandma and Grandpa - Values
How to Hold a ThunderstormFor Kai, from Mom - Adventures
The Dragon Who Collected Lost SocksFor Eli, made up with his big sister - Adventures
Seven Cats, One LighthouseFor Lucia, from Uncle Marco 
The laundry basket landed with a soft bump. Biscuit bounced, very slowly, all the way to the moon’s edge. “One small sock for Zadie,” said Zadie, and planted it.
To the Moon in a Laundry Basket
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Or dream up anything at all.
Space dogs, sock-hoarding dragons, a lighthouse run by cats. If they can imagine it, it can be a book.
Who’s the hero of your first book?