MyMagicalStory is a small, family-run business from Australia with one simple obsession: the look on a child's face when they open a book and find themselves inside it.
Like most parents, we'd read the same bedtime books so many times we could recite them with the lights off. The stories our kids actually begged for were the made-up ones — the ones where they were the hero. So we set out to build the book we couldn't buy: one where the child on the page isn't a generic cartoon with your kid's name pasted in, but genuinely, recognisably them — in a story worth reading long after the novelty would have worn off.
Today, families across Australia and around the world read books starring their own kids — birthday books, new-sibling books, first-day-of-school books, and completely custom adventures written from a single idea. Every one of them starts the same way ours did: with a couple of photos and a story to tell.
Plenty of personalised books swap in a name and call it done. We illustrate your actual child — their hair, their smile, their whole look — into every single page, in the art style of the book you choose. The reaction we're chasing is the gasp when they see themselves on the cover.
You can preview the entire personalised book for free before spending a cent. If the illustrations don't feel like your child, you simply don't buy. We think that's how it should work everywhere.
The photos you upload are used to create your book — that's it. They're never shared, never used to train anything else, and you can delete them whenever you like. We're parents too; we built the privacy rules we'd want for our own kids' photos.
Books ordered in Australia print in Australia. US orders print in the US, UK orders in the UK, and the same for New Zealand and Canada — premium paper and binding, without international postage or customs delays.