A Christmas book starring your child and your dog
The Lantern Walk on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve the whole street carries lanterns to the big tree. Your dog stops at the corner and will not turn, because one house at the end is dark. Your child has to choose.
A hardcover Christmas story drawn from your own photos, with your child and your dog as the heroes.
$49.99 + $4.99 shipping · Free preview first
Order by December 8 for the best chance of having it by Christmas.
Printing and shipping times are estimates, so we cannot promise a delivery date. Orders placed later are welcome; we print and ship them as quickly as we can.
The story
A whole street of lanterns, and one dark house at the end.
Your child has waited all year for the Lantern Walk. Then, at the corner, your dog sits down in the snow and faces the other way, toward the house with no lights on. Your dog has never forgotten that porch, or the biscuit jar that sits on it every summer.
The walk is moving on without them. Your child has to decide: the singing and the tree, or a knock on a door that might not want company. They knock. Nothing. They nearly give up. Your dog stays on the step, sure.
What happens next is the kind of Christmas Eve a family talks about for years. We will leave that part for the book.
These pages are from a sample copy. Your family's book stars your own child and dog, drawn from your photos.
What arrives
A book they are in.
- An 11 x 8.5 inch landscape hardcover, printed and bound to order.
- 24 interior pages plus the cover.
- Your child and your dog drawn from your own photos, so the faces on the page are theirs.
- Your dog’s real quirks shape the story, starting with how they dig in when they refuse to move.
- Written to read aloud from about age 5, and to read alone up to about 11.
Snow, lanterns, carols, and a tree. No Santa and no magic, just a dog who will not move and a child who finds out why.
How it works
About fifteen minutes, then a preview.
01Tell us about them
A short guided conversation: your child’s name, your dog’s name, and the small habits that make your dog yours.
02Share three photos
Your child, your dog, and the two of them together. Our studio draws their characters from those photos.
03Preview free, then decide
You see the cover and the first 14 pages before you pay anything. Checkout opens the rest of the book and the editor, where you can adjust the words and approve every page before it prints.
Order by December 8 for the best chance of having it by Christmas
A Christmas Eve story with their names on it.
Preview the cover and the first 14 pages free. Nothing prints until you approve it.