Turn the story you wrote into a picture book you can still edit.
For children’s authors, teachers, and small studios
Your manuscript, bound.
Paste your finished manuscript. Illustrate My Story suggests natural reading beats for you to review, keeps the same character on every page, and returns a book that stays editable—words, crops, page order, and every saved version.
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The daylight bindery · a scene from the studio
From manuscript to finished book
Paste your story. Review a suggested plan. Approve the character first.
Bring your story
Paste or upload the story you already wrote.
Suggested reading beats
Review a browser plan, then refine the recalculated plan in your private workspace.
Your character
Check the face, outfit, and palette established on the cover and the first inside page.
Approve two images first
The cover and one inside page are drawn first, each quoted before it starts; a failed image returns its credit.
Published sample
The book is the page.
This is a finished sample, not a mockup. Grab the corner, use the arrows, or roll the wheel.
Lina and the Lantern Library · Independent author · watercolor · 12 pages · Published sample
At dusk, Lina and Pip watched the story boat return through the harbor mist.
Lina carried that last warm glow up the cliff before the fog swallowed the path.
The keeper had one lantern left—and no light for the library shelves.
Keeper Vale pulled with Lina while Pip guarded every rescued story.
In the lantern room, the bell rope was knotted tight around the book chest.
At last Lina stepped into the round library, where one enormous book waited in the blue dark.
One clear bell called the village to pass the lantern books hand to hand.
With each step, another curved shelf remembered how to shine.
When she opened it, a small gold light rose from the silent pages.
The beam crossed the rough water and showed three boats the way home.
Lina placed the glowing story beneath the lens, and the lighthouse found its beam.
From then on, Lina read there each evening while Pip slept at her boots.
The editable difference
The same character on every page
Approve the face, outfit, and palette once. Every page keeps them.
Published sample · Lina and the Lantern Library
What the studio is doing now
You watch it being drawn.
Five named steps, each one a real step of the pipeline, each one saying what it is doing for you.
- Reading your sentences
- Settling the character
- Sketching the page
- Painting it in
- Setting the words
No progress bar, no percentage, no estimated seconds.
Twelve different source stories
Three finished books. Nine early concepts, labeled honestly.
Try it with your story
Bring the story you already wrote.
Change anything at any time. Nothing here is a step: the plan always shows the current answer.
Reading age
Illustrated pages
Art direction
Manuscript
Paste the manuscript or upload a plain-text file. Nothing is generated in this step.
Page plan
Add a sentence or paragraph.
This plan comes from the text here. Your private workspace recalculates it from the complete manuscript before paid art is made.
About … per illustrated page
One credit, one page.
Planning and editing are free. A 12-page book generated from scratch uses 14 credits, about … at the Starter rate. Credit packs start at …; unused balance stays in your account.