YourParables

Turn the story you carry into a narrated picture book.

A family memory. A love story. A company origin. A child’s whole world. Say it once, in your own words, and it comes back as an illustrated book that reads itself aloud.

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An illustration in warm storybook style: a woman holds a small golden glow close to her chest, and a trail of golden light arcs from her hands into an open picture book that a grandmother and two children are reading together on a sofa
the story you carry, and the book they hold

stories made here

This one is finished. Read it right here.

Turn its pages. Tap Listen along and it reads itself to you, page by page, the way every book made here does.

The cover of It Only Has to Fly, a finished picture book made here: a girl on a garden wall reaching up into a sky full of paper planes, a small robot at her side

Every family has a story it keeps meaning to write down.

You tell it at dinners. You promise yourself you’ll save it properly someday. Years pass, and the details soften. A story that shaped your people deserves better than living only in your memory.

We know how it feels to carry one and never find the month it would take to make the book. So we made the month unnecessary.

An illustration in warm storybook style: a grandfather mid-story at the kitchen table after dinner, a daughter and grandson leaning in to listen, an open shoebox of old photographs between them, and at the table's edge a closed notebook with a pen resting on top, untouched
the story, told again; the notebook, still closed

How it works

  1. Say what's on your heart, in your own words.

  2. We craft a narrated picture book while you do anything else.

  3. You give the final say; we refine until it's yours.

From a story you carry to a book they hold.

Read it at bedtime. Play it at an anniversary. Send it to the person it’s about. Here is a second finished book, about a dad who carried exactly that feeling, made and narrated the same way yours will be.

The cover of What a Book Is Made Of, a finished picture book made here: a father at a warm desk in the evening, the story taking shape in the glow before him

The story is already yours. The book can be too.