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Brave Hearts · Ages 2-6

What the Dark Keeps

The dark stops being the thing to get past and becomes the thing worth seeing.

Start this book

Every book is written fresh. Two families choosing the same template get two different stories.

An example book

Nell and the Lantern of Quiet Wonders

A real book this template produced. Every illustration and every line made by the same pipeline, nothing mocked up. It is an example, not your book: yours will star your child, in a story written for them.

Cover

This sample stars a made-up child called Nell.

The brief we start from

A story for a child who is afraid of the dark. I want the dark to become somewhere full of quiet, beautiful things that only happen when the lights go out, rather than something they are told not to be scared of.

This goes to the storyteller exactly as written, as though you had typed it yourself. Everything after it is about your child.

What we'll need from you

  • Your child's name and age
  • A photo, if you have a good one. It's what makes the illustrations look like them
  • Who the book is from, for the cover

Where it lands

the dark is where the best quiet things happen