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A personalised Christmas gift for a child, made only for them

Christmas morning produces a great deal of wrapping paper and a surprisingly small number of things anybody remembers by February.

A book with the child in it is one of the few presents that gets better after the day, because it goes into the bedtime rotation and stays there.

Why it works as a present

It is the one nobody can duplicate

Every other present at Christmas exists in a warehouse somewhere. This one does not.

It reads well aloud on the day

A story you can read to a child while the room is still full of paper is worth more than a toy that needs setting up.

It becomes the thing they keep

Personalised books tend to survive every subsequent clear-out, which is not true of much else opened that morning.

When to order

Order printed books by the first week of December. Christmas is the busiest period of the year for every print network, and last-minute international shipping is the one thing nobody can promise. The digital edition has no such deadline — it arrives by email within minutes.

Getting it right

→Buying for several grandchildren? Make each book separately rather than reusing one. Two children with two books get two different stories, which is the entire point.
→A story about family or belonging reads particularly well at Christmas — it is one of the lesson options on the form.
→If you are shipping to a different household, order early enough that it does not arrive on the 27th.

Questions people ask

What is the last date to order for Christmas?

For printed books, aim for the first week of December. Printing and dispatch take 2-4 business days and December delivery times are unpredictable everywhere. The digital edition can be ordered on Christmas Eve.

Can I order books for several children at once?

Yes, and you should make each one separately. Each book is written from scratch, so two siblings get two genuinely different stories rather than the same book with different names in it.