Space
Above your garden the same universe begins.
For children, space is at once enormous and very close: it simply hangs above the roof in the evening. Mira lets the story begin there, and uses what a child already knows — because they often know more planets than we do.
Personal. Really personal.
What makes a space story personal
Not the rocket, but who comes along and what stays behind at home.
- the planet they know everything about
- who flies along — and who waves
- the object that has to come, however awkward
- the question they keep asking about stars
- the place where you look up together
- what they would take along for the journey
“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 stairs that kept going
Above the attic there is another floor, and above that another. At the last step there is no roof any more.
Someone on Mars is writing
A reply to a note that went up on a balloon last year.
The moon has lost its light
Someone has to go and bring it back, and that someone happens to live here.
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
- dreams of space
- Grandpa Henk
- loves horses
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
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- 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
From age 4, strongest around 6 to 10
Young children enjoy the departure and the return; from about seven they want to know how it works. Mira keeps the facts right where she can, and lets the rest be story.
Questions people often ask
Is what it says about planets correct?
Mira sticks to what is really known about the planets and the moon, and invents around that. Children who know a lot about space see straight through a made-up fact — and then the rest of the story is no longer true either.
Can Grandpa or Grandma fly along?
Yes, and that is often the loveliest. Add them as a character, with a photo or a description. The story is then about the two of you instead of about space.
Will it not get too technical?
No. Mira writes no explanation but an adventure; what is learnt comes in passing. You can read in the preview how it sounds before the book is made.