Tap to expandOne sunny morning, Lane, with pale flaxen close-cropped hair and pale blue-grey eyes, was playing in the garden when they noticed something new. Tiny, shimmering bees, no bigger than their thumb, buzzed gently around their head.

One sunny morning, Lane, with pale flaxen close-cropped hair and pale blue-grey eyes, was playing in the garden when they noticed something new. Tiny, shimmering bees, no bigger than their thumb, buzzed gently around their head.
Premium Print Quality
This isn't a print-out — it's a real, professionally bound storybook that starts as tonight's bedtime favourite and ends up in the box of things you kept. The kind of book that gets passed down, not thrown away.
Bound like a real book, because it is one — a sturdy softcover or a hardcover with a rigid protective case, made to stand up to years of eager little hands.
A substantial 200 × 200 mm (8" × 8") square book that sits beautifully in small laps, with the artwork running edge-to-edge across every spread.
Rich, full-colour pages on heavyweight coated stock, so the illustrations look as vivid in their hands as they did on your screen — on the hundredth reading as much as the first.
Every copy is made fresh for one child only — never mass-produced, never pulled from a warehouse shelf. There is exactly one book like it in the world.
Expect it on high rotation at bedtime first — then keeping its place on the shelf long after they can read it to you.
The book they'll rediscover in a box of childhood treasures at eighteen — their own name on the cover, their own face on the pages — and one day read to their own kids.
Bound like a real book, because it is one — a sturdy softcover or a hardcover with a rigid protective case, made to stand up to years of eager little hands.
A substantial 200 × 200 mm (8" × 8") square book that sits beautifully in small laps, with the artwork running edge-to-edge across every spread.
Rich, full-colour pages on heavyweight coated stock, so the illustrations look as vivid in their hands as they did on your screen — on the hundredth reading as much as the first.
Every copy is made fresh for one child only — never mass-produced, never pulled from a warehouse shelf. There is exactly one book like it in the world.
Expect it on high rotation at bedtime first — then keeping its place on the shelf long after they can read it to you.
The book they'll rediscover in a box of childhood treasures at eighteen — their own name on the cover, their own face on the pages — and one day read to their own kids.
From the cover to the very last page, every detail is chosen so the story of your child feels as magical in their hands as it looks on screen — a tangible piece of childhood you'll both hold onto.
Perfect for: children ages 3-5 — and anyone who loves seeing themselves in a story
What you get: 28 illustrated pages, with your child starring on 24 plus both covers
Printed locally: in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada — with free standard shipping, no international postage
Our guarantee:
Add your child. Upload a couple of clear photos and tell us their name — this story has one starring role, written just for your child.
We illustrate them in. Your child is illustrated into every page of "The Busy Bees" in the book's own art style — same hair, same smile, unmistakably them.
Preview it, then make it yours. See a free preview of your personalised book before paying anything. Love it? Order the softcover or hardcover — the digital copy is included and saved to your library.
“Took me about ten minutes on my phone. Three kids, three books — and no more arguments about whose turn it is at bedtime. Money well spent.”