About StoryKid

I'm a dad, and this all started because of my daughter.

She was two. We read everything — stacks of books, every night, without fail. She loved it, and so did I. But somewhere along the way I noticed something. The stories were always about princesses in faraway kingdoms, magical creatures, grand adventures. Beautiful, sure. But none of it was her world.

And honestly? There are a lot of books out there — a lot — about princes and princesses. There are alternatives. But finding ones that are genuinely engaging, that hold a toddler's attention and feel like a real story rather than a lesson in disguise, is harder than it sounds.

Then I became a solo parent, and everything shifted.

There's something about reaching a certain point in life — older, wiser, a little battle-worn — with a toddler depending on you and a newly rearranged life, that has a way of clarifying things. What matters. What doesn't. What you're getting right, what you've been getting wrong. Bedtime stopped being just storytime — it became one of the most important parts of our day together. A moment to connect, to make sense of things, to keep our little world feeling warm and safe and ours.

I needed stories that reflected her real life. Not a template. Not a generic name dropped into a plot that had nothing to do with who she actually is. I looked at what existed — personalised books were everywhere, but they all felt like exactly that: templates. Swap the name, change the hair colour, done. The story itself never changed. It never said anything real about your child, your family, your moments.

So I built StoryKid.

She's three and a half now. And building this taught me something I didn't expect — that the process of making something for her made me a better parent to her. It made me pay attention differently. To the details that made her her. To the things she was curious about, scared of, delighted by. To the world she was trying to understand and the stories that could help her understand it.

A story that lives only on a screen felt like it wasn't enough. I wanted something she could hold. Something that could sit on her bookshelf between her favourite things, dog-eared and real. So every StoryKid book can be printed and delivered to your door — a proper hardcover or softcover book, made just for your child, that feels like it belongs in your home because it was made for your home.

And then there are the nights you can't be there.

The evenings when work runs late, when distance gets in the way, when life doesn't cooperate the way you planned. For those nights, we're building audiobooks — narrated in your own voice, recorded once, available whenever your child needs to hear you. So even when you're not in the room, you're still the one telling the story.

I built StoryKid for every parent sitting on the edge of a bed wishing the story felt a little more like home. For every child who deserves to be the hero of something that actually makes sense to them.

You are not alone in figuring this out. And your child deserves a story that's actually theirs.

That's what StoryKid is for.