Christmas
A Christmas story that begins in your house.
Christmas books are usually about another family, in another house, with another tree. This one is about yours: the table everyone sits at, who is there this year, and what always happens at your house.
Personal. Really personal.
What belongs to Christmas at your house
Every family has something that comes back every year and exists nowhere else. Thát is the material.
- who sits at the table, and who rings
- the star on top, the bauble with the crack, the tablecloth
- what is eaten and who makes it
- the walk, the church, the film — your habit
- the pet under the tree
- someone who cannot be there this year
“She turned straight back to the first page to find her gran again.”
Emma · Harrogate
Together with Mira
From your world to your story
Tell Mira
Answer a few questions about someone who matters to you.
Mira listens
Mira asks deeper questions and finds the finest moments.
Mira writes
Mira writes a personal story full of detail, warmth and meaning.
See it first
Read the story at your leisure and say what could be different.
Your approval
Only when you are completely happy is it printed.
Your story
Receive the story in the format of your choice.
Sometimes all you need is a small idea
Three directions Mira can take
The bauble that had one wish left
The oldest bauble in the box, with a crack in it, turns out to keep what was wished for last year.
There is someone standing in the snow
On Christmas Day there is someone in the garden nobody knows, who knows exactly what everyone is called.
The shortest day of the year
About what you light in the darkest days, and why at your house that always happens all together.
You need not choose. “Let Mira choose” is there too, and your own idea is always welcome.
From your world
What you tell, and what comes out
- Bram, 5
- little sister Fem
- Grandma comes for Christmas
- dog Balu
- walk in the woods
Mira’s proposal
Bram, Fem and the light in the woods
During the Christmas walk Balu sees something between the trees that nobody else sees. When Bram and Fem go after him, Grandma turns out to be waiting there already with a lantern.
An example of what such a proposal looks like. Yours will be about you.
Your story. In the format that suits you.
eBook
from €9.95
Hardcover
from €29.95
Audiobook
from €4.95
Colouring book
from €14.95
Story Movie
Coming soon
In short
- Price
- From €9.95 as an eBook, with a hardcover from €24.95
- Shipping
- €4.95 per order in the Netherlands; eBook and audiobook free
- Delivery
- 3 working days in the Netherlands, counted from the moment you approve the story; eBook and audiobook at once
- The book
- Hardcover of 21 × 21 cm, usually around thirty pages: fourteen scenes, each with a drawing
- Age
- Written for children of about 3 to 8; for a special occasion also about adults
- Characters
- Up to five, the main character included — with or without a photo
- Languages
- Dutch, German, French and English
- Photos
- Not required. A photo is deleted ninety days after you approve the drawing
- Approval
- Nothing goes to the printer before you have read and approved the story
Order before early December
December is the busiest month at every printer. Ordering later, choose the eBook or the audiobook — those are there straight away, and the hardcover can still be ordered afterwards.
Questions people often ask
Until when can I order for Christmas?
For a printed book we go by early December; after that it gets tight at the printer and the post. Digital versions can be ordered up to the day itself.
Is it about Father Christmas or the nativity?
About neither, unless you want it to be. You can write down in your own words what belongs to Christmas at your house — faith, family, food, or all three — and Mira follows that.
Can someone who is no longer with us be in it?
Yes, and at Christmas people ask for that more often. Write down how you want them remembered; Mira does not make a farewell story of it unless you ask. You read it beforehand and decide whether it is right.