For ages 6, 7 and 8
The age at which a story may be a story.
Entirely unique
No templates. Your story is always one of one.
Your own characters
People, animals and places from your life play the leading roles.
See it first
Read and look at the story first. Only then do you decide.
Personal & private
Your stories are private. You decide who sees them.
Personal. Really personal.
What brings a story to life at this age
Not looks, but what someone cares about. A seven-year-old recognises themselves in what they can do and what they are busy with.
- the sport or hobby the whole house always talks about
- the best friend, by name
- what they can already do and what not quite yet
- the teacher, the club, the street
- a joke that only works between you
- the subject they know everything about
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 secret under the gym
A door that was not there yesterday, and three children who decide that they dó dare.
The match that was called off
The final is cancelled and the team thinks up something better. About losing without it being about losing.
A letter from someone who does not exist yet
A letter in the postbox, signed with their own name and a year still to come.
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
- Sophie, 6
- loves horses
- likes drawing
- Grandpa Henk
- dreams of space
Mira’s proposal
Sophie and Grandpa among the stars
When Sophie sees a strange light behind the apple tree one evening at Grandpa’s, together they discover a spaceship that takes them further than Grandpa’s star charts could ever show.
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
Twenty-eight pages
Eighty to a hundred and thirty words per scene, a storyline with a real knot, and enough white space to read by themselves. Long enough to disappear into, short enough for one evening.
Questions people often ask
Can my child read it alone?
From about seven, usually, with a little help. The sentences are short, the page is calm and the text sits on a page of its own next to the illustration — not over it.
Can friends and classmates be in it?
Yes, up to five characters in total. Do ask their parents’ permission if you use their photo; they are their children. Without a photo works too — then you describe them.
May something exciting happen?
Yes, and at this age it belongs. No violence and no loss, but a real knot that the main character untangles themselves. You read the story beforehand and decide whether it is right.