$7.99
- 12 illustrated double-page spreads + cover and dedication
- Interactive page-flipping in your browser + downloadable PDF
- Text edits and illustration regeneration included
- Available in 30 languages
- Usually ready within 15 minutes
A made-to-measure book
Say Mia out loud and you're halfway to a lullaby — a name made for bedtime finally gets its own book
Mia takes one breath to say and a whole story to do it justice. Make her the heroine of a personalized picture book: her name on the cover, her real likeness in the illustrations, and an adventure that belongs to her from the first page to the last.
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Here's how a book for Mia could look
Pick a theme, upload a photo, and your child becomes the hero of the story — with their name on the cover and inside.
The covers above are samples — the illustrations were created by artificial intelligence and the children in them aren't real. Your book is made from the photo you upload.
A name this small deserves a title page this big
Some names have to be trimmed, squeezed or turned into initials before they fit a book cover. Mia has the opposite problem — a cover can feel almost too big for it, until you see those three letters set in large type with a whole illustration underneath, holding the space effortlessly. The name opens with the softest sound in the language, the one babies find before any other, and finishes on two bright vowels that make it nearly impossible to say sternly. Try it: you can call Mia across a playground, but the name itself refuses to sound cross. That is exactly why it works so well read aloud. Mia fits into a single breath — and at seven in the evening, third story in, one breath is precisely the size a name should be. It behaves beautifully inside a story, too. Mia's shoes, Mia's plan, Mia's dragon — the possessive rolls off the tongue without a single awkward letter, and the name scans so cleanly that it slips into the rhythm of a sentence the way longer names never quite do. In this book she is not a side character who happens to share her sound; the story is written around her. Her name stands alone on the cover, she appears in the pictures with her own likeness taken from a photo you upload, and every turn of the plot is hers. A girl who hears her own name carry a story tends to ask for that story again — which is, after all, the highest praise a bedtime book can earn.
Where Mia comes from
Mia began life as a pet form of Maria — and through it reaches back to the ancient name Miriam, whose oldest traditional readings include 'wished-for child' and 'beloved'. For a long time it stayed a private, at-home name, most common in Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, until families started putting it on birth certificates in its own right. The actress Mia Farrow — born Maria — carried it onto the world's screens in the 1960s, and the name never went back to being merely short for something. A generation later, the American footballer Mia Hamm gave it a second, sportier claim to fame, and a whole wave of girls born around the turn of the millennium were named after a striker rather than a film star. Over the past two decades the name has climbed into the top ten for girls in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia, which makes it that rare thing: a name at once fashionable and genuinely old. It also hides a small joke for travelling families — in Italian and Spanish, mia is simply the word for 'mine', so ordering a book for Mia in Rome sounds like claiming it for yourself, and every rendition of a certain ABBA chorus turns into a family anthem. And because the name is pronounced almost identically in English, Spanish, Italian, German and Czech, it crosses borders without ever needing a translation — wherever this book gets read aloud, her name will sound exactly like itself.
What families call a Mia at home
- Mia — The rare name that is its own nickname — short enough for the playground, complete enough for the front of a book. Many families never need anything else, which is why it appears on the cover unchanged.
- Mimi — The doubled, sing-song version, usually born the moment a younger sibling first tries to say the name — and it tends to stick for family use long after everyone can pronounce the original.
- Mim — The clipped, matter-of-fact form for everyday logistics: shoes on, Mim, we're late. Affection disguised as efficiency, mostly used by parents mid-morning.
- Mi — A single syllable saved for lights-out — the quietest possible version of the name, said from the doorway after the last page has been read.
How it works
How a book with your child's name comes to life.
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Create your hero and other characters
Upload one photo and it becomes a hero with your child's real likeness. Add up to 5 characters — siblings, friends, even a pet.
- A name, age and one photo
- Their real likeness in the illustrations
- Up to 5 characters: siblings, friends, a pet
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Build the story and illustration style
Pick a ready-made plot from many worlds, or write your own. Choose the illustration style, the book's language and a dedication — you'll see a title suggestion and a story preview right away.
- Lots of worlds and plots — or write your own
- Choice of illustration style and language
- A personal dedication at the front
- Instant title suggestion and story preview
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Get an e-book you can fine-tune
Ready within 15 minutes. Flip through the book online, fine-tune the texts, have any illustrations you pick regenerated, then view the e-book.
- Usually ready within 15 minutes
- Interactive page-flipping online
- Edit texts + regenerate illustrations
- Downloadable PDF + optional audiobook
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My daughters love the book! We read it every evening before bedtime. The story is so sweet and lovingly written, and the pictures are beautiful. My girls feel really special because their own name appears in the book. A great keepsake forever! Absolutely recommend. ❤️
We got the book as a birthday present and it turned out perfectly. The print quality pleasantly surprised me – hardcover, nice paper and illustrations printed in fine detail. The characters are drawn so well that my daughter recognized her sister, me, the giraffe and herself :) She really likes the story and now it’s her favourite book, we read it almost every evening. On top of that, it will remain a lovely keepsake that she’ll come back to even in a few years. I definitely recommend it.
The book was a gift… I’ll find out how happy it makes them… but it’s very beautiful
I have the books ready as a gift, so I’m already looking forward to handing them over
An absolutely stunning book made to order. It's not only a beautiful gift, but a keepsake for a lifetime. Our sons are thrilled. Not only did they find “themselves” in the book, but the whole story also takes place in their favourite place, which is the ice rink. The whole book is accompanied by wonderful pictures, and the dedication from us, the parents, is just the cherry on top. I warmly recommend it. Not only will all the “heroes of the book” be thrilled, but so will you, as soon as you see the book with your own eyes :)
Our daughter was absolutely thrilled, she looked through it several times in a row and declared that it's pretty, she hasn't had enough of it yet and we read it every day before bedtime.
The book is very nice. The pictures look very nice, they're not blurry. The book really made us happy.
Very beautiful book, I always have trouble choosing in a bookshop, something bothers me about every one, or I can't find a theme I'd want.. here I can make up anything
A great, sweet and inspiring book that won us over from the very first pages! ❤️ The story of Алекс and Марая inspired us to go to the forest together, to enjoy the autumn beauty, to learn more about the animals and their food, to collect pine cones, hazelnuts, acorns and chestnuts and to create a wonderful autumn decoration at home. 🍂🍁 We love books that we don’t just read, but turn into real family adventures! Thank you for this magical experience! 🥰
The book is just as I imagined it. It's a present for under the Christmas tree, so we'll see how the grandkids like it ♥
The book for my grandson’s christening arrived and I’m thrilled with it. I’m already looking forward to us flipping through it together as soon as he grows up a little. It’s great that you can also add a favourite thing or toy and it gets worked into the story. It’s great!!!
The book is very nice, it was bought as a gift, so Maťko hasn’t seen it yet
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All the way through. The story is written directly in English with her name woven into the telling, so Mia appears naturally in the narration and the dialogue — not pasted into blanks in a template.