Personalized books & coloring pages

Some weeks it's dinosaurs. Some weeks it's harder than that.

Picture books written for one child in particular — painted, or in plain outline for them to color in. Ready-made ones land in your inbox in seconds, custom ones within a day.

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Choose your book

A story of their own, or pages to color in.

Made for your childemailed within 24 hours
Ready nowemailed instantly
To read
A painted custom picture book cover and an illustrated story page
To readMade about your child

Your Own Story

You tell us about them, we write the book. Their name, their age, the thing they're obsessed with this month, the friend or the...

$24.00one-time
  • Twelve pages, or twenty if you want a longer story
  • Written from your brief, not a template
  • Painted, simple, or plain outline to color in
  • Emailed within 24 hours — usually sooner
Start their storyWithin 24 hours
Three pages of a Paper Star full-colour picture book, showing the cover and two illustrated story pages
To readReady now

Ready-made Story Books

A finished 12-page picture story, ready to read tonight. Choose how you want it: in full color to read at bedtime, or in black...

$14.00one-time
  • Twelve pages. About fifteen minutes at bedtime.
  • Full color, or the same pages to color in
  • Emailed the second you pay
  • US Letter — ready for your printer
See all 8 storiesDownloads instantly
To color in
A Paper Star coloring page: a family and their dog drawn in clean black outlines on a US Letter sheet, ready to print and color in.
To color inFrom your photo

Your Photo as a Coloring Page

Send us a photo and we'll turn it into a coloring page. The dog. The grandparents. The whole family squashed onto the sofa at...

$12.00per order
  • Clean cartoon line art
  • Pets and grandparents welcome
  • Print-ready US Letter
  • Emailed within 24 hours — usually sooner
Upload a photoWithin 24 hours
Three black and white colouring pages with thick clean outlines, showing a boy and a dragon
To color inReady now

Coloring Packs

A themed set of coloring pages, ready to download and print the second you pay. No forms to fill in — pick a world...

$9.00per pack
  • Twenty pages. Enough for a long afternoon.
  • Thick lines for small hands
  • US Letter — ready for your printer
  • Print it as many times as you like
Pick a packFour themed worlds
12 pagesabout fifteen minutes at bedtime
Instantready-made books, emailed
US Letterprint at home or read on screen
30 dayslove it or it's free

No shipping, nothing to track

It's in your inbox before you've closed the tab.

Ready-made books land in your email the moment you pay — no waiting, no delivery date, nothing to track. The made-to-order ones come within 24 hours, usually much sooner.

Print it at home on regular paper, or just read it off a phone or tablet at bedtime. Some nights that's what happens, and it works fine.

It's yours forever. Lost the file? Email us and we'll send it again.

Look inside

This is the whole book, before you pay for it.

Put a name in and flip through. These four worlds are examples — write any world into the brief and the book happens there.

Pick an example world
Make one for your child

Now color one in yourself.

Color it

Pick a crayon, then tap any part of the drawing. These four worlds are just examples — your book can be set anywhere you can think of.

Three steps, one printer

Two kinds of book. One printer.

1

Pick ready-made or made-to-order

Finished stories download the moment you pay. Custom books ask for a short brief — or a photo — first.

2

We make it

Custom stories are written from your brief and photo pages are drawn from your picture — ready within 24 hours, usually far less.

3

Print it at home

Everything arrives as a print-ready PDF sized for US Letter (A4 included). Print one page or the whole book, tonight and forever.

The bit parents ask about

Yes, AI helps make it. No, we don't let it near your child unsupervised.

You've seen the six-fingered, melty-faced books on the marketplaces. That's not what this is.

Read how we actually use AI
  • Love it or it's free

    If a book isn't right, tell us and we'll remake it — or refund you. A full 30 days, no arguments.

  • Your child's details stay yours

    The name and interests you type exist only to build your book. We don't store them anywhere else, never sell them, and never train anything on them.

  • Written around your child

    Their name, their age, the world they picked — the whole story bends around them, not a template with the name swapped in.

  • Wrong? We remake it free

    Tell us what missed and you get a new version within a day. Still not right and we refund you and you keep the files.

We're new, and we're not going to pretend otherwise.

No invented review counts here. Paper Star is new, and you'd be one of the first twenty families to use it.

Which is why you get a real page from your book before you pay for it, and why if the book misses, we rewrite it free or refund you and you keep the files anyway.

See a free page first

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