Type their name
Girl or boy, any first name and their age. The cover redraws as they type.
Love in a Book sells personalised bedtime storybooks. Pick a name, an adventure and a sidekick, and a 15-page illustrated book starring your child is made and emailed in minutes. We made the whole thing: the brand, every sticker, the site, the book engine, six films and five free games.
Watch the filmsClientLove in a Book
What we didBrand, site, book engine, films and games
PlatformNext.js, Postgres, Stripe
TimelineOctober 2026
StatusLaunched
Now showing
Every book got its own trailer
Six short films for Reels and TikTok, built from the same painted scenes and stickers as the books. Pick one and it plays in the phone.
tap the screen to pause
The idea
Every child deserves a story where they are the hero
A parent fills in a two-minute form and gets a fully illustrated bedtime story back. The site had to make that feel magical, and make the product obvious in the first scroll.
Pick a sidekick and an adventure
Six animal friends and five stories, from the Sleepy Stars to a Christmas Wish.
Their book lands in the inbox
A 15-page illustrated PDF, ready to print or read on a tablet.
5Adventures
6Sidekicks
15Page picture book
60Versions, all checked
4 secTo make a book
Personaliser
Type their name. Watch the magic.
This is the real preview from the shop, with the same art the books are made from. Change anything and the 3D cover redraws.
A Love in a Book story
Peek inside
Turn the pages
Five real books, straight out of the book engine: five children, five sidekicks, fifteen pages each. Pick a cover, then click, swipe or use the arrow keys.
Cover
Make one for real
Scroll story
A sticker book you can scroll
The home page is a guided tour. Each chapter swaps in its own sky, child and sidekick as you scroll, with little effects to match: waking stars, bubbles, confetti and snow. No template and no page builder.
loveinabook.com.au
hover or scroll inside each one to move through it
Characters
A cast of stickers
Every character is a die-cut sticker, posed once and reused across scenes. That is how one story can star any child and any sidekick. Have a go: build a page the way the engine does.
Sticker sheet
Double-click a sticker on the page to peel it off.
Free to play
Five little games, starring them
One game for every adventure, with no app and no sign-up. Kids type their name, pick their sidekick and play. When the game ends, one tap turns it into their storybook. They are a free way in for parents, and great for sharing.
Wake the Stars
Tap each sleepy star to wake it. Winking stars are worth three, but don’t disturb the owl.
Beach Bubble Pop
Pop bubbles to find fish, seahorses and shiny pearls. Golden pearls are worth five. Watch out for the jellyfish.
Moon Jump
Bounce across the moon in low gravity. Grab the stars, catch a shooting star and hop the moon rocks.
Party Match
Flip the party cards and find all six pairs in as few tries as you can. Perfect for little ones.
Present Catch
Santa’s sleigh is dropping presents. Slide to catch them and dodge the snowballs.
Brand system
Sweet, puffy and sticker-bright
A kawaii look built to feel like opening a sticker book at bedtime: pastels on warm milk, plum lines holding everything together, and soft periwinkle skies instead of dark pages. Click a colour to copy it.
Display · Sniglet ExtraBold
Pick tonight’s story
Sticker word · Leckerli One
Book
Body · M PLUS Rounded 1c
Their name on every page, their favourite animal by their side.
Hand · Gaegu
up, up, up the hill…
Components
Make their book
Read a sample
Five adventures
Ready tonight
Mobile first
Made for the sofa at bedtime
Most parents buy on their phone, at bedtime. Every chapter, card and form stacks into a one-thumb layout, right through to checkout.
Under the covers · The book engine
Turning a name into a real storybook
Five stories, written so they work for any child and any sidekick. A page plan for each book places the background, the text and every sticker. The engine lays out all 15 pages with the child’s art, then a headless browser photographs each page and stitches them into a print-ready PDF.
- 01
Order
Name, sidekick, adventure and who to send it to, saved as a pending order.
- 02
Pay
Stripe Checkout. A signed webhook marks it paid, exactly once.
- 03
Queue
Each book joins a Postgres queue, with 3 retries and an alert if one fails.
- 04
Make
15 pages drawn and saved as a PDF in about 4 seconds.
- 05
Deliver
A private download link, emailed to them, with a copy to the buyer.
Live cover
Their name, adventure and sidekick, redrawn as they type.
Send as a gift
Books go straight to the grandkids, with a copy to you.
60 versions
5 adventures, girl or boy, and 6 sidekicks, every page checked.
Private links
Downloads only through their link. A refund switches it off.
The stack
What it runs on
SiteNext.js
OrdersPostgres
PaymentsStripe
EmailResend
Book engineHeadless Chromium
PDFspdf-lib
MotionGSAP and Lenis
HostingDigitalOcean
Sweet dreams start with their name
- Role
- Brand, UX, design, films, games and full stack build
- Built with
- Next.js, GSAP, Stripe, Postgres and a PDF renderer
The result
Love in a Book sells and makes every order on its own, and comes with everything it needs to launch: films, games and a feed full of posts. A parent types a name and pays, and a finished storybook lands in the inbox minutes later.
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Ready for the feed
One post for every book, with captions and hashtags written and ready to paste. Same stickers, same scenes, so the feed, the films and the books all feel like one world.