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Once Upon Your Child’s Imagination

A girl leans forward with her wand and says “a purple dragon” toward a floating book. Her mother, in sage green, watches beside her. Pencil outlines become Bumble the purple dragon breathing flowers, with a few small sparks around the book.A girl leans forward with her wand and says “a purple dragon” toward a floating book. Her mother, in sage green, watches beside her. Pencil outlines become Bumble the purple dragon breathing flowers, with a few small sparks around the book.

A storybook maker that flips the script on screen time, once-upon-a-time, and family time.

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Authentic minds for artificial times.

Every blank page guides kids with lessons unique to their open-ended story.

1Start with a spark

Lessons For This Page

World ideas for your story
Create a world where one small thing is very important. What is it, and why does everyone care about it?

A cross-legged girl presses her fingertips to her temples with a playful squint while her owl looks up. A pencil plan connects a dragon above, fire to the left, a flower to the right and a rabbit below.

2Say what happens

Voilà! Read it, celebrate it, narrate it!

Every creative choice teaches kids about art, and parents about their kids.

The Dragon Who Breathed Gardens. By Paige Turner.
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Because sharing is caring

Books can be shared with friends & family. Send a link or download them; print at home or post to social.

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  • Share a book link
  • Download your book
  • Print downloaded books at home
  • Post downloaded files to social

The future believes in make-believe.

Thriving in the AI age demands what AI lacks: a heart. When kids express themselves with Budding, they learn to weave love and humanity with technology.

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Make 3 books for free
Mother and child quietly read a book facing them, with their owl beside them. The lavender outer cover, with a small purple Bumble dragon, faces the viewer.

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