FableFann · personalised storybooks
The book they'll ask for every single night.
A personalised storybook starring your child, set in your heritage. First one free.
A FableFann story
Your child and the Trail of the Wandering One
FableFann
- Their name, their world, their hero
- Right to left, natively
- The first book is free
How it works
Three things from you, and the book is theirs.
01
Type their name
It lands on the cover as you type it, and it runs through the sentences inside: their name, their pronouns, the toy they will not sleep without.
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Choose their world
Eid, Ramadan, Diwali, Christmas, a birthday, an ordinary school day. Arabian Heritage, Hindu Mythology or Indian Folk Art, or none of them at all.
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Read it tonight
We write and illustrate the whole book: a cover, a dedication, then eight, twelve or sixteen pages, with your child drawn as the hero on every one. The first one is free and reading it never costs anything.
You choose the world. They are the hero in it.
Their book is set somewhere real enough to walk into: an Eid street strung with lanterns, a river where the lotus opens, a bedroom with glow stars on the ceiling. You decide which one, and your child is drawn into it.
A palace with a thousand lanterns. Arabian Heritage.
Dunes drawn in folk-art line. Warli, Madhubani, Mandala.
The street on the night of Eid.
The river where the lotus opens.
A garden where the doors are in the tree roots.
The sky, the moment a guide arrives.
Down where the coral grows.
A ringed planet, seen from the window.
A Ramadan evening, before the lanterns are lit.
A bedroom with the stars still glowing.
The savanna, an hour before dark.
The bridge over, and the road home.
Twelve of the worlds our illustrators painted. Their book is set in the one you choose, and your child is the hero drawn into every page of it.
Where the story is set
Eighteen companions, and not one of them is a mascot.
Most personalised books swap in a name and call it culture. Their book is set inside a tradition, with a guide who belongs there. Each one arrives at a particular moment in the story, carries one particular virtue, and then steps back, because the hero of the book is your child.
Arabian Heritage
Seven guides. Scheherazade begins the tale. Sinbad meets you when you arrive somewhere new. Jamal the Camel kneels so you and your companion travel together. Shaheen the Falcon circles once and shows you the hidden path. Aseel the Arabian Horse gallops in at the turning point. Juha meets you on the road home with something funny and true. Oryx the Desert Spirit stands in the last of the light and says nothing at all.
- Occasions
- Eid · Ramadan
- Art
- Arabian heritage motifs
Hindu Mythology
Eleven guides. Ganesha for beginnings, Saraswati for the clever idea, Hanuman for loyalty, Lakshman for going together, Durga for standing your ground, Arjun for focus, Rama for the harder right path, Bheem for moving the immovable, Shiv for the change that looks like an ending, Krishna for joy shared, Lakshmi for the warmth of coming home.
- Occasions
- Diwali
- Art
- Mandala · Madhubani
Indian Folk Art
No guides, and that is on purpose. Folk art is a way of painting, not a character to borrow. Choose it and the whole book is drawn in Warli, Madhubani or Mandala line: the dunes, the doorways, the sky.
- Occasions
- Diwali · any story
- Art
- Warli · Madhubani · Mandala
Guides are written as wise companions, never as comic relief, and never in a way that demeans the tradition they come from. No world ships until someone with fluency in that tradition has signed it off. Christmas, birthdays and ordinary school days are here too, because a culture is an option, not a requirement.
Every guide arrives, helps, and steps back.
Because the point of the book is not the falcon or the elephant-headed god. It is the four-year-old holding it, hearing her own name, deciding she is the sort of person who does brave things.
How the story is made
A person wrote every word before a machine touched it.
We did not ask a machine to improvise a book for your child. Real authors built the storytelling, beat by beat: the opening, the spark, the arrival, the companion, the challenge, the try, the turning point, the joy, the return, the warmth. That is why their book has a real beginning, a real wobble and a real ending instead of pretty sentences going nowhere. And your child is the one it happens to, the whole way through: their name, their pronouns, the toy they will not sleep without, the friend from school, the word they use for grandmother, and one hero drawn from the way you describe them, on every page.
The morning of Amira's birthday arrived softly, the way the best mornings always do. Pale gold light crept through the curtains and lay in gentle stripes across the blanket. Bunny was tucked under one arm, right where she always ended up. Outside, a bird began to sing one long, sweet note, and Amira opened her eyes and smiled before she was even fully awake.
- A real author shaped the story
- 8, 12 or 16 illustrated pages
- Your child on every one
What you get
A book you could put on a shelf.
A whole book, not a page
A cover, a dedication written for your child, then eight, twelve or sixteen illustrated pages with a beginning, a wobble and an ending.
Your child, actually in it
Their name, their pronouns, their companion and the people they love run through the plot from the first page. Not stamped on at the end.
The same child on every page
You describe how they look, and one illustrated hero is drawn from that and kept the same from the cover to the last page, placed into hand-painted scenes rather than reinvented each time.
In your language
English, Arabic, Hindi, French or Spanish. Or two at once, side by side, for a bilingual home, each in its own reading direction.
The books that matter get read four hundred times.
A novelty gift gets opened once. This one has your child's name in it, so it goes back on the pile every night, and by the fortieth reading they are saying the brave part out loud before you get to it. That is what we are actually making. Not a keepsake for the shelf. A book for a Tuesday.
One complete book, free. An email address is all we need.
What it costs
Free to look. Free to read. Pay only to keep.
01
A taste
The opening of a story with your child's name in it, on this page, right now. No account, no card, nothing to cancel.
Free
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One complete book
Confirm an email address and we write and illustrate a whole book. Read it in the app as often as you like, for as long as you like. One free book per account, and we say so up front rather than letting you find out.
Free
03
Keepsakes
Only if you want to keep the story as an object. This is the only thing we ever charge for.
- Print-quality PDF—
- Narrated audiobook—
- Animated video—
- Printed hardcover—
Safe by design
The subject of every book is a real child.
Screened before you see it
Every word and every picture is checked for age-appropriateness before it reaches you.
Never sold, never trained on
Your child's details are used to make your books and nothing else. You can delete everything from your account in one click.
Built for the parent, not the child
Accounts belong to adults. There is nothing in the app a child could spend money on.
The first one is on us.
One complete illustrated book with your child as the hero, yours to read for as long as you like.
An email address is all we need. No card.