A Lantern Wood adventure
The Night the Lanterns Went Out
A firefly, an old owl, and a whole forest of lanterns waiting to wake.
Twelve illustrated spreads inside a 32-page hardcover — 17 screens to turn in the reader, the first half of them free.
We keep the photograph of your child, so we can draw them again. Read the first half of your book free. Hardcover $40.00 plus shipping and tax. It is a house demo book about a child we invented, because no real child’s book ever appears on a public page. It is otherwise the same reader, the same layout engine and the same illustrations a customer gets.
A house demo book. Ana Sofía is a child we invented.
Look inside
A spread from the middle of the book.
Not a marketing composite. The real words and the real illustration of one page of Ana Sofía’s copy, drawn by the engine that feeds the reader and the printing press.
The forest stirs
Now the trick was easy. Another lantern bloomed warm and gold. Two lights held the dark back.
Then — a sound in the trees. Someone was frightened. A young deer stood shaking. Her fawn pressed close. Ana Sofía walked slowly in front, all the way home.
Lantern Wood · A house demo book. Ana Sofía is a child we invented.
What personalised means here
Your child is drawn, not named.
Your child is drawn, not named. One photograph becomes a character sheet — an original illustration of your child in our house style — and every picture in the book is drawn from that sheet, so it is the same child on every page. We keep the photograph, privately, so the next book can be drawn from it too.
The gallery further down is the check on that sentence: every plate in it is from one demo book about one invented child, and it is the same child in all of them.
The cast
Who your child meets in Lantern Wood.
Your child is the hero and never one of the cast, which is why the book can be about your child without pretending they are a fox.
Pip the firefly
excitable, loyal, a little glowy when happy
“Ooh — this way, this way!”
owl
Bramble
ancient, dry, endlessly patient
“Careful choice. I like a careful traveller.”
Illustrations
Clean plates, no watermark.
Every illustration in your book is generated by an AI image model from the photograph you upload, then checked page by page against your child’s character sheet so the same child appears in every scene.
A house demo book. Ana Sofía is a child we invented.
What it costs, and when it would arrive.
Shipping and delivery, before you decide
Order today, arrives:
- Ground, tracked
- Thu, Oct 29 – Wed, Nov 4
- 6–10 business days: printing, then transit. The default. Tracked door to door.
- Expedited, tracked
- Wed, Oct 28 – Mon, Nov 2
- 5–8 business days: printing, then transit. Offered wherever the carrier reaches, priced at cost, with its own gift-by date.
Shipping is quoted live from the printer for your address and passed on at exactly their price — no markup, ever. The carrier, the amount, the tax and the delivery dates are all on screen before you enter a card.
Buying for a birthday? Count back from the day of the party in working days, not calendar days: 10 business days for the tracked ground service and 8 for expedited, worst case. Order by then and it arrives with days in hand; both dates are on screen again at checkout for the address you enter.
The one number not on this page is the shipping itself. We will not print a figure we would have to guess at: it is quoted from the printer for your address, shown in full with the tax and the total before anything is irreversible, and you can leave at that screen.
Reprint or refund, thirty days after it arrives.
For two hours after you order, cancel yourself in one click for a full refund — nothing has been printed yet. After that the book is manufactured, and the guarantee still holds: if what arrives is damaged, mis-bound or simply not the book you approved, we reprint it or refund it for thirty days from the day it lands.
Start Lantern Wood with your child, read the finished book for nothing, and think about the hardcover afterwards.