Making books
How a book is made, the choices your child makes, and what happens when one cannot be finished.
11 articles
In the order most people need them
- How a book is made
The steps a book goes through between your child pressing "Make it" and the book reaching their shelf, and when a person reads it.
- The book maker
The five questions your child answers to make a book, the extra choices on the first step, and what they see while the book is made.
- How long a book takes
Why we do not promise a time for a new book, what your child sees while they wait, and the emails that tell you how it went.
- When a book cannot be made
What happens when our checks stop a book, when a book cannot be finished, or when a person needs to read it first, and what happens to the books it used.
- Looking over a finished book
How to open a finished book's own page, and how to put a book away, bring it back, change the words on a page or have a picture drawn again.
- Telling us about a problem with a book
How to tell us that a book your child made went wrong, what happens after you do, and the other ways to reach us about a book.
- Turning your child's drawing into a hero
How to photograph a character your child drew so it can star in their books, what we check before we keep it, and how your child picks it.
- Series and weekly episodes
How a book your child keeps becomes a series, how a character comes back in a new story, and how to have a new episode made each week.
- Seasonal books
The seasonal shelves in your child's library, when each one is open and for which ages, and how your child can ask for a seasonal book of their own.
- The languages stories are written in
How to choose whether a reader's stories are written in British English, American English or Spanish, and what changes with each.
- When the book maker says not now
What each message means when your child cannot start a book, and what you can do about it.
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