Written and painted by AI, read by them
A storybook where your child is the hero.
Tell Quillow their name and a story idea. Get a beautifully illustrated, age-perfect storybook in minutes, and a hardcover you can hold.
Your first short story is free. No card, no photo of your child, ever.
- Ages
- 2 to 10
- First book
- Free
- Ready in
- Minutes
Mia could not sleep. The rain had stopped and the whole street was shining. She knelt on her bed and pressed her nose to the cold glass, and that was when she saw it. Something enormous and silver was swimming slowly down the middle of the road.
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Writing and painting, live.
Bedtime, but theirs
They already love books. This one knows their name.
A good picture book is written for a million children at once, which is the whole craft of it. Quillow writes for one. Same warmth, same care with words, except the child on the page has their hair, their glasses, their yellow coat, and their name in the first line.
The shelf
“A little bear went down to the river.”
Lovely. Read four hundred times. The bear is not them, and by the fifth night they know every word before you say it.
Their book
“Mia could not sleep. The rain had stopped and the whole street was shining.”
Then a whale made of moonlight comes to her window, because that is what her dad typed into a box on a Tuesday night. She asks for it again on Wednesday. And on Thursday.
- Her name
- Her braids
- Her yellow coat
- Her idea
- Her reading level
How it works
Three steps, and then a book.
- One
One
Tell us about your child
A first name, an age band, and a few words about how they look. Brown braids. Round glasses. Always in rain boots. That is all we ask for and all we keep.
About forty seconds
- Two
Two
Pick a story seed, or write your own
Six warm starting points, from the moon whale to the brave little baker, or type the thing they have been talking about all week. Every idea is read for tone before a word is written.
Six seeds, or your sentence
- Three
Three
Quillow writes it, then paints every page
The story is written for their reading level, then each spread is illustrated with the same child on every page. You watch it arrive, page by page.
Two to four minutes
Real books
Three children. Three stories. One house style.
Typed by the parentMia, 6, brown braids, brown skin, yellow raincoat. A whale made of moonlight visits her window.
Mia and the Moon Whale
Mia could not sleep. The rain had stopped and the whole street was shining. She knelt on her bed and pressed her nose to the cold glass, and that was when she saw it. Something enormous and silver was swimming slowly down the middle of the road.
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What you get
Small things, done properly.
The same child on every page
A character sheet is written once, from your words, and sent unchanged with every illustration. It is why page four still has the braids, the glasses, and the yellow coat from page one. It is the hardest part of this product and the part we spend the most time on.
Mia, a child of about 6, brown braids, brown skin, dark eyes, wearing a yellow raincoat. The same child appears in every illustration.
Written for their age, not for children in general
- 2 to 4Short lines, strong rhythm, one idea per page.
- 5 to 7A real plot, a small problem, a warm ending.
- 8 to 10Longer paragraphs, more world, a little wit.
Gentle by design
Every story idea is read before writing starts. Mild peril is fine. Frightening is not.
“That one is a little too big for a Quillow book. Try something lost and found, or a small brave thing.”
Read it on anything
The reader is a real spread on a laptop and one page at a time on a phone in a dark bedroom. No app to install.
Or hold it in your hands
Any book can be printed and bound as a hardcover for $29, including the free one. Matte cover, thick uncoated pages.
$29per printed book
A new adventure whenever they ask
On Storyteller the library keeps filling. Same child, new story, or a different child entirely. Siblings included.
Built AI-native
The models are not a feature here. They are the whole press.
Quillow is two model calls in a warm coat. A language model writes a book for one specific child at their reading level. An image model paints every spread and holds that child's face, hair and coat steady from page one to page ten.
Neither is possible without modern AI. A template with a name slot reads like a form letter, and no stock art library contains a girl with two braids, round glasses and a yellow coat riding a moon whale, four times, from four angles, in one style.
So the model is the product, and we route it rather than marry it. One file decides which lab answers each task. Adding a provider is a case statement, not a rewrite.
Routing table, live
- Write the bookgpt-4.1openai
- Read the idea for tonegpt-4.1-miniopenai
- Name the bookgpt-4.1-miniopenai
- Paint every pagegpt-image-2openai
Read from lib/ai/provider.ts at render time, not typed into a marketing page. Change a route there and this table changes.
“She has asked for her book every night for three weeks. Not a book. Her book. She cannot read yet but she knows which page the whale is on.”
Daniel R., Dad of one, Sacramento
“I made one for my grandson with his name and his little glasses in it and had it printed. He is four hundred miles away and I have never sent a better parcel.”
Marguerite L., Grandmother of three, Savannah
Illustrative. Quillow is at the beginning, and these are written to show the shape of what families tell us rather than to quote named customers.
Pricing
One free book. Then nine dollars a month if they keep asking.
Two months free when you pay for a year.
First story
One short storybook, illustrated, free. No card.
Free
- One story of 4 spreads
- Every page illustrated, character held across pages
- All three age bands
- Read on any screen, keep it forever
- Order it as a hardcover if you want one
Storyteller
A new adventure whenever they ask for one.
$9per month
- Unlimited digital storybooks
- Longer stories, up to 10 spreads
- Every age band, every child in the family
- Your child library, kept and re-readable
- Re-paint any page you are not happy with
- Hardcover printing at $29 per book
Hardcover
A printed, bound copy of any book you have made.
$29per book
- $29 per book, printed and bound
- Matte laminate cover, thick uncoated pages
- Available on any plan, including the free story
- Shipping in the United States, 7 to 10 days
Ordered from inside a book, on any plan.
Prices in US dollars. Storyteller cancels in one click and your books stay readable afterwards.
Questions
What parents ask first.
Tonight, read them a book about them.
The first one is free and takes about three minutes, most of which is the painting.