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Every page unlocked and read aloud — plus download the whole book to keep forever. Credited toward that story's print.
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Create a storyUnlock and print from your story. After you make a book, use Keep this book or Order printin the reader — Stripe checkout opens there with your book's exact price. Longer stories have more pages to print, so they cost a little more. Your $7.99unlock is always credited toward that story's print.
Create and preview any story for free. Subscribe for full books every month — billed securely through Stripe. Printed keepsakes are priced close to cost, the same low price for everyone.
Try the magic tonight
A new book every week
The every-other-night ritual
A story every single night
Every plan includes a free preview, kid-safe moderation, and your data kept private. Paid plans renew monthly or yearly — cancel anytime from your account.
Turn any story into a real, premium hardcover — printed and shipped worldwide by our partners. Priced close to cost, the same low price for everyone. Longer stories have more pages to print, so they cost a little more — you'll see the exact price before you order.
Pocket-sized, made for little hands.
Size5.5 × 5.5 in
Metric14 × 14 cm
Our most-loved bedtime size.
Size8 × 8 in
Metric20 × 20 cm
Sweeping, storybook-tall pages.
Size8 × 11 in
Metric21 × 28 cm
Cinematic spreads for big adventures.
Size11 × 8 in
Metric28 × 21 cm
A coffee-table heirloom to treasure.
Size11 × 11 in
Metric28 × 28 cm
Premium, sturdy, safe
Thick silk pages, hardback covers and child-safe inks — built to survive a thousand bedtimes.
Not just a screen — a premium printed book delivered to your door, made to last for years.
Mia climbed onto Sheldon’s smooth, cool shell, and with a gentle splash they slipped into the silver water. The sea was as warm as a bath. All around them, little waves giggled and rolled, carrying them softly away from the shore.
Sheldon and the Sleepy SeaAn actual inside spread — a picture on one page, the words on the other.
Premium hardcover
Build a library
Made for bedtime
Hardcover · 28–48 illustrated pages · ships worldwide · from $41.99.
TurtleTime (some people write it Turtle Time) turns a photo of your child into a personalised, illustrated storybook where they are the hero. Preview the whole book free, listen to it read aloud, then keep it digitally or order a printed hardcover. Made by parents, safe by design.
You add your child's name, age and a photo. We generate an illustrated character that stays consistent across every page of the story.
TurtleTime reads each story out loud in a warm, friendly voice, so your child can listen and follow along — even when you can't be there to read it.
No. Preview any story free, keep a single book for $7.99 — yours to download as a PDF, eBook or Word file, and fully credited toward its hardcover — and order printed keepsakes without any subscription. Plus is there when the nightly ritual takes hold.
Yes. Every story is moderated, your photos are private and never used to train models, and you approve everything. No ads, ever.
We built TurtleTimefor our own children first. Safety isn't a setting here — it's the whole point.
Create your child's first story free — in about a minute.
Meet the turtles
Warm little moments with a dad turtle and his daughter. Then make a book for your child.
First Kite Lift
You reached for the sky today. And look at this special storybook I made about your big flight.
