The cover of a sample book. Zoë is an invented child, made with AI for this sample book, not a real customer. On yours it’s your child, painted from your photo.
Ages 4–6. Retold from the American folk tale “The Gingerbread Boy” (1875).
The Gingerbread Child
Printed as “Zoë and the Gingerbread Child”, with your child’s name in place of Zoë.
Your child helps bake a gingerbread child, and it jumps straight out of the oven and runs. Past the cat, past the goose, past the horse, and into the snowy woods, where a fox is waiting by the brook. This time nobody gets eaten, because your child has a plan.
In this one
- Baking day in the snow
- A chase that keeps growing
- A fox who catches only air
Two ways to have it
- Softcover$39.99Lighter, and easy to post.
- Hardcover$49.99Best for keeping. A sturdy cover for read-it-again nights.
Shipping included. You choose the cover after you’ve seen your preview, and can add the digital edition for $9.99.
Arrives in 11–19 days
- You see every page and approve the finished book before we print it.
- If the printed book doesn’t match what you approved, tell us within 30 days. We print a new one and you keep the first.
- Your photo is used only for your book and deleted within 72 hours of upload, or sooner when you approve the drawing. We never use it to train AI.
The book itself
A square picture book, the kind that gets read at bedtime and then lives on the shelf.
Our stories are retold from the old public-domain tales. AI helps with the first draft, and a person edits every line. The pictures are made with AI from your photo, and we check them before print.
- Who’s in it
- Your child, painted from your photo, all through the story.
- Dedication
- Your own message, printed at the front of the book.
- Size
- 8.5" × 8.5", 32 full-color pages: 14 story spreads, plus a title page, a gift page, your dedication and “The End”.
- Ages
- Ages 4–6. Best read aloud together.
- Printing
- Made to order, printed in 3–6 business days after you approve (7–10 in the holiday rush).
- Checking
- We look over every page before it goes to print, and you approve the finished book.
Look inside
Turn every page of a finished sample book. Zoë is an invented child, made with AI to show what the finished book looks like, not a real customer. Your copy has your child’s name and face, painted from your photo, so your pictures will differ.
Front cover
Tap a page, swipe, or use the arrow keys to turn.
What families say
No reviews of The Gingerbread Child yet. After a book arrives, we ask every family once how it went, and we publish what they say, good or bad, word for word.
Questions about this one
Does the gingerbread child get eaten?
No. In the old tale the fox eats it. In ours, your child gets to the brook just in time, with a plan: a scarf for a bridge. The gingerbread child runs back across it, the fox snaps at thin air, and nobody is eaten.
Is it a Christmas book?
It’s a winter book: snow, baking and a warm kitchen, with no Santa in it. That makes it a good December present for any family, and it still works in February.
Who are the little old woman and the little old man?
The bakers from the 1875 story. Your child is their helper, and bakes the gingerbread child with them. The grown-ups handle the hot oven.
Can siblings be in the same book?
Not yet. Each book has one child in it for now. Plenty of families order one book per child, and you get 25% off each additional book in the same order.
Can I change the dedication later?
Yes, right up until you approve the finished book. After that it goes to the printer.
Also on the shelf
See every story- Goldilocks and the Three BearsAges 4–6. Three bowls, three chairs, three beds, and one very sticky mend.
- The Night Before ChristmasAges 4–6. Christmas Eve, a clatter on the roof, and your child creeping down the stairs.
- The Ten Lost StarsAges 4–6. Ten stars fall into the garden. Your child counts them home.
- The Three Little PigsAges 4–6. Straw, sticks or bricks, and your child draws the plan.
- Little Red Riding HoodAges 4–6. A red cape from Grandma, and a wolf in her nightcap.
