Their very first superhero legend

A personalized superhero book for a child aged 3 to 5 is not a book with a name pasted onto the cover. It is an entire story built around them: their face on every page thanks to their illustrated portrait, their real everyday life as the starting point (their home, their school, their little habits) and the power you choose together from eight archetypes. At this age, recognising themselves in the pages is a huge joy: they are not reading the adventures of a hero who vaguely resembles them, they are living their own.

The adventure is written for little ones: short sentences made for reading aloud, the gentlest of rescues (a balloon caught in mid-air, a toy saved just in time), nothing scary. The book's big lesson sits right at their height: stay calm, be clever, look after your own. At bedtime, the story is listened to with eyes wide open, then ends with a great big hug.

Finding a gift for a child aged 3, 4 or 5 that will not end up at the bottom of a toy chest is the whole challenge. The book where the child is the hero plays in another league: it is the story they ask for every night, the one they proudly show the family, the one parents keep preciously once they have grown. Grandparents, godparents, uncles and aunts: it is the birthday gift that lands every single time.

And if the child grows up? The same book grows with them: for an older child, the story takes on the scale of a true epic, with real stakes, suspense and a victory well earned (see Leo's example, age 10). If you do not know all the details (the photo, the little morning habits), the gift card lets the parents compose the book themselves, whenever they wish.

The 21.5 × 21.5 cm square format, the softcover at €57 or hardcover at €69, the FSC paper printed in Europe: every detail is designed for an object that travels through the years, not for one more gadget.

Everything happens online, in about fifteen minutes. You enter the first name and the age, and share a photo: we compose your child's illustrated portrait. You then choose their power from the eight on offer, personalize their costume (colours, symbol, cape, mask) and their hero name, and tell us about their everyday life: the morning ritual, the way to school, their favourite cuddly toy. These details become the first pages of the book.

Before printing, you review everything. Every page remains editable, the text as well as the illustrations, and nothing goes to print without your approval. Once the book is approved, it is printed in Europe and delivered within 5 to 12 working days. All that is left is to watch their face the moment they recognise themselves on the cover.