A field guide to your kid’s imagination
Turn your kid’s drawings into a book
Pick a themed booklet. Your child draws twelve ideas on paper. You photograph them. We lay them out as an encyclopedia of creatures they invented, with every original line kept exactly as drawn.
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Entry 1 of the Monsters booklet, drawn by a five-year-old.
The one rule
We never redraw a single line
Plenty of tools will turn a child’s drawing into a slick cartoon. That is not this. We clean the paper, not the drawing: the shadow from your hand goes, the yellow from the kitchen light goes, the wonky leg stays. You are keeping your child’s actual handwriting, not a machine’s opinion of it.
What you photograph
Crumpled paper, shadow, kitchen-light yellow.
What comes back
Clean white paper. Same lines, untouched.
Paper first. Screens last.
The only person who touches a screen is you, and only twice.
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Pick a booklet
Twelve drawing ideas on a theme, and whether the pages read as an encyclopedia or a comic.
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Print and draw
Each page prints as an outline sheet with a space to draw inside. Crayons, pens, whatever is on the table.
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Photograph it
One photo per drawing. Crop it, we straighten it, and the paper comes out white.
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Design the cover
Pick a hero drawing, type a title and your child's name, choose an art direction. Then download the book.
Six booklets
Every idea describes something that does not exist yet, so there is no right answer and nothing to copy.
- MonstersThe twelve monsters living in your houseThe original Doodlepedia. Twelve monsters that have been in the house the whole time, finally catalogued.See the 12 ideas
- SuperheroesHeroes with slightly disappointing powersTwelve heroes nobody has invented yet, and not one of them can do everything. The powers are the funny part.See the 12 ideas
- Space ZooAnimals from planets nobody has visitedA zoo with twelve enclosures and no Earth animals in any of them. Gravity is optional.See the 12 ideas
- Robot CityA city where everything is a machineTwelve robots with twelve jobs, and a city built around them. Some of the jobs are ridiculous.See the 12 ideas
- Deep SeaThe part of the ocean with no lightTwelve things from the bottom of the sea, where it is too dark for anyone to check your work.See the 12 ideas
- Dino DinerA restaurant for dinosaursTwelve pages of a diner where every customer is enormous. The chef is having a hard week.See the 12 ideas
You choose how it reads
Same drawings, two layouts. Switch the whole booklet whenever you like — it never costs anything.
Encyclopedia
A catalogued entry: name it, give it one fact, add a field note.
Comic
A panel and a speech bubble, with the idea printed underneath.
Pay only when you want the file
Prompts, printing, uploading, cleanup, layout and every customisation are free. You see the finished book before you decide.
One booklet
$14
- A 12-page booklet as a PDF
- 5 cover designs included
- Re-download free for 30 days
Every month
$9/month
- A new themed booklet each month
- 50 cover designs a month, rolling over to 150
- Cancel any time, keep every file
Extra cover designs, if you want them: 20 for $5, 50 for $10, 120 for $20. They never expire.
Questions parents ask
- Does the AI redraw my child's drawing?
- No, and this is the one thing we will not compromise on. The only thing done to a page is removing the shadows and the colour cast from your kitchen light so the paper reads as white. Every line stays exactly where your child put it, wobbles included.
- What do I actually need at home?
- Paper, something to draw with, a printer if you want the outline sheets, and a phone camera. Nothing else. Children draw on paper, never on a screen.
- Is it an encyclopedia or a comic?
- Whichever you pick. Encyclopedia lays each drawing out as a catalogued entry with a name and a fact. Comic gives it a panel and a speech bubble. You can switch a whole booklet between the two at any time, and it costs nothing.
- Does my child need an account?
- No. The account is yours. We ask for your child's first name only if you want it printed on the cover, and nothing else about them is ever collected.
- What does it cost?
- One booklet is $14 and includes five cover designs. A subscription is $9 a month for a new themed booklet plus fifty cover designs monthly. Everything up to the download is free, so you can see the whole book before paying.
- How long does a booklet take?
- Most families do two or three pages at a sitting and finish in a couple of weeks. There is no timer, nothing expires, and pages can be drawn in any order.
- Can I get it printed as a real book?
- Not yet. There is a waitlist for a printed hardcover after you download your PDF, and we are using it to decide whether to build it.
Start with the sock monster
Entry one of the Monsters booklet. It takes about ten minutes and costs nothing to find out whether your child is into it.