Story ideas
Pick their interests and the personalised bedtime story is written around them. Not a theme pasted on top, the plot itself. Sixteen to choose from, and they can be combined.
Footprints by the river, a creature bigger than the house, and a friend nobody expected.
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Valleys losing their colour, a map only one rider can follow, and a long walk home.
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A power that turns up uninvited, and the harder job of working out what to do with it.
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Past the last planet, where the quiet is enormous and something is still switched on.
One night as captain, a crew that takes some convincing, and a course nobody has charted.
Deep water, a whale that has been waiting a long time, and a promise kept.
Creatures who talk back, a rescue that needs small hands, and a farm that never sleeps.
A door at the bottom of the garden, wings that do not work yet, and one careful wish.
A castle with an opinion, a crown that does not fit, and a kingdom worth arguing for.
A machine that learns a feeling, a workshop after hours, and a repair that goes both ways.
A final nobody expected them in, one bad first half, and the pass that changes it.
Something enormous in the hills, a village that has it wrong, and a very small hat.
A city under the harbour, a song that carries too far, and a tide that has to be turned.
A recital, a step that will not come right, and a stage bigger than it looked.
A track through the hills, an engine with a temper, and a corner taken properly at last.
A spell learned out of order, consequences that arrive politely, and one honest fix.
Most personalised children's books work one way: there is a fixed story, and your child's name goes into the gaps. Change the theme and you get the same plot with different pictures. It is why two children so often end up with what is recognisably the same book.
TalePop writes the story from scratch every time. The interests you pick decide what happens, which means a dinosaur story and a unicorn story are not the same beats with the nouns swapped. You can check that claim without signing up: read the dinosaur sample and the unicorn sample back to back.
A child rarely loves exactly one thing. Pick several and they work together, so dinosaurs plus soccer becomes a story where both carry weight. The profile also takes their best friend, their pet, their age and what makes them laugh, all of which end up in the plot rather than in a dedication.
Every interest is written at the level you choose. A four-year-old gets short sentences and one big moment per page. A nine-year-old gets richer language and a proper three-act structure. Same theme, genuinely different book. The samples show both ends: the dinosaur story is beginner, the superhero and unicorn stories are advanced.
Yes, and it makes the story better. Interests combine, so a child who loves dinosaurs and soccer can get a story where both matter to the plot rather than one being decoration.
Any time, from their profile. Most children go through phases, so the profile is meant to be edited. Dinosaurs this month, deep sea the next.
No. Every story is written fresh, so the same child with the same interests gets a new plot each night. Nothing is pulled from a library of pre-written stories.
You can add their best friend, their pet and details about their personality, which shape the plot regardless of theme. If there is an interest you keep wishing for, email us and we will look at adding it.
Set up a profile in about two minutes. The first personalised story book is free.
Create their first storyFirst book free. No credit card. Ages 3 to 10.