Personalized books & coloring pages
Some weeks it's dinosaurs. Some weeks it's harder than that.
Picture books written for one child in particular — painted, or in plain outline for them to color in. Ready-made ones land in your inbox in seconds, custom ones within a day.
From $9.One payment, no subscription.
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What's this week?
Choose your book
A story of their own, or pages to color in.
Your Own Story
You tell us about them, we write the book. Their name, their age, the thing they're obsessed with this month, the friend or the...
- Twelve pages, or twenty if you want a longer story
- Written from your brief, not a template
- Painted, simple, or plain outline to color in
- Emailed within 24 hours — usually sooner
Ready-made Story Books
A finished 12-page picture story, ready to read tonight. Choose how you want it: in full color to read at bedtime, or in black...
- Twelve pages. About fifteen minutes at bedtime.
- Full color, or the same pages to color in
- Emailed the second you pay
- US Letter — ready for your printer
Your Photo as a Coloring Page
Send us a photo and we'll turn it into a coloring page. The dog. The grandparents. The whole family squashed onto the sofa at...
- Clean cartoon line art
- Pets and grandparents welcome
- Print-ready US Letter
- Emailed within 24 hours — usually sooner
Coloring Packs
A themed set of coloring pages, ready to download and print the second you pay. No forms to fill in — pick a world...
- Twenty pages. Enough for a long afternoon.
- Thick lines for small hands
- US Letter — ready for your printer
- Print it as many times as you like
No shipping, nothing to track
It's in your inbox before you've closed the tab.
Ready-made books land in your email the moment you pay — no waiting, no delivery date, nothing to track. The made-to-order ones come within 24 hours, usually much sooner.
Print it at home on regular paper, or just read it off a phone or tablet at bedtime. Some nights that's what happens, and it works fine.
It's yours forever. Lost the file? Email us and we'll send it again.
Look inside
This is the whole book, before you pay for it.
Put a name in and flip through. These four worlds are examples — write any world into the brief and the book happens there.
Now color one in yourself.
Pick a crayon, then tap any part of the drawing. These four worlds are just examples — your book can be set anywhere you can think of.
Three steps, one printer
Two kinds of book. One printer.
Pick ready-made or made-to-order
Finished stories download the moment you pay. Custom books ask for a short brief — or a photo — first.
We make it
Custom stories are written from your brief and photo pages are drawn from your picture — ready within 24 hours, usually far less.
Print it at home
Everything arrives as a print-ready PDF sized for US Letter (A4 included). Print one page or the whole book, tonight and forever.
The bit parents ask about
Yes, AI helps make it. No, we don't let it near your child unsupervised.
You've seen the six-fingered, melty-faced books on the marketplaces. That's not what this is.
Read how we actually use AI-
Checked before it's sent
Every coloring page is checked for stray color and heavy ink before it goes out, so it prints clean on any home printer.
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Your child's details stay yours
The name and interests you type exist only to build your book. We don't store them anywhere else, never sell them, and never train anything on them.
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Written around your child
Their name, their age, the world they picked — the whole story bends around them, not a template with the name swapped in.
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Wrong? We remake it free
Tell us within 14 days what missed and you get a new version, usually the same day.
We're new, and we're not going to pretend otherwise.
No invented review counts here. Paper Star is new, and you'd be one of the first twenty families to use it.
Which is why, if the book misses, we remake it free.
No card, no trial, no catch
Get a free page to print tonight.
Leave your email and the page downloads straight away — no waiting on an inbox. There's $5 off your first book on it too.