Personalized hardcover fairytales
Make the child you love the hero of a classic fairytale - their name, their face, a premium hardcover made for no one else. See your free preview before you pay.
Free preview · Premium hardcover · One photo is all it takes
Faithful to the classics
We don't rewrite the tales. Your child doesn't visit Cinderella's story - your child is Cinderella. The same adventure, the same lessons of bravery, kindness and family. Every book credits the classic it's built on.
From your photo to their fairytale
Upload one photo, and the child you love steps into the illustrations.
Why Bookarino
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Not a name swap, not a side character. Your child becomes the protagonist - your child is Cinderella, Thumbelina, Mowgli or many others - illustrated as themselves, so they recognize the hero on the page.
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Premium hardcover, properly printed, made to outlast the toys. Still on the shelf in twenty years, still carrying the lessons worth passing on.
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Your free preview shows exactly how they'll look, page by page. Nothing is printed until you're happy.
Three steps, about five minutes.
Pick a fairytale. Add their first name and one clear photo. That's everything we need.
Look through preview of the book, your child in every illustration. You only order if you love it.
“That’s ME!” - and then you read it again, every night, for years.
For grandparents, godparents and favourite aunts
A christening, a birthday, a first Christmas - whatever the occasion, this is the gift that gets kept. The child you love, the hero of a timeless fairytale, beautifully printed and built to last. One photo is all it takes.
Honest delight
Real reactions from real families are on their way - we share every genuine review, unedited, as our first books arrive.
Why we made this
We're two friends in our twenties. We're at the age where, suddenly, everyone around us is having a baby - and every time another little one arrived, we wanted to give something that wasn't just another toy headed for the bin.
So we invented this: a book where your child isn't a side character in someone else's fairytale - they're the hero of it. The brave one. The one who saves the day.
Because we think kids deserve precisely that.
One clear photo and their first name. They become the hero of the story, illustrated as themselves rather than a name printed on a stock character. You look through the whole book before you order.
See for yourself before you pay. Your free preview shows exactly how they appear across the whole book - every page, not just the cover. Nothing prints until you're happy.
Tell us at the preview stage and we'll change it. If a delivered book ever disappoints - a print fault, a name we got wrong, a likeness that misses - we reprint it or refund you. Your choice, no argument.
A premium hardcover, 30-32 illustrated pages depending on the tale, printed to be read a thousand times rather than looked at once.
Printing takes 3-5 business days and delivery 2-5 more - most books are home within 5-10 business days, and delivery is free during our launch. Ordering for a christening or a birthday? Email us first and we'll tell you honestly whether it will arrive in time.
The free preview catches most surprises before anything is printed. If a delivered book still isn't right, we reprint it or refund you - no fight. A keepsake brand can't ship a flawed keepsake.
Bookarino
One photo, a few minutes - and you see the whole book free. Order only if you love it.
