A personalized book about Mother's Day

On Mother's Day your child gets to think about someone else and do something for her: pick a posy, draw a card, carry in a cup of tea on a tray. A book where your child organises the day gives them a role to be proud of. At the same time, it says what can be hard to put into words out loud – that mum means a great deal. It works for one mum, two mums, a stepmum or a grandma who is especially close to your child.

The book can follow a whole Mother's Day: the breakfast that nearly goes wrong, the card covered in hearts that turns out to hide a message, a trip to the place where mum most likes to be. It can also wander into fairy-tale territory – a garden where the flowers talk, a journey to find the rare flower that only opens once a year.

Or it can show an ordinary day through new eyes: your child going to work with mum, or stepping into an old photo and meeting her when she was little herself. Whichever way it goes, the story ends at home, with your child and mum together on the sofa.

Give the book details only you know: that mum always sings in the car, that she drinks her tea from the same chipped mug, that she and your child have a special greeting of their own. Tell us her favourite flower if she has one. If you live in a flat, the garden can become a balcony or a park, and if your child has two mums, both can be in it. If mum is away that particular Sunday, the book can become a message your child reads to her over the phone.

If you would like to read more about the book as a present for the day, have a look under Mother's Day.

A one-year-old mostly looks at the pictures and searches for mum's face, so short lines that come back again and again – mum is sleeping, mum is smiling – are just right. Four-year-olds love acting out the breakfast all over again afterwards. School-age children like the book to have a goal and a few obstacles along the way, and a ten-year-old can rewrite a line of the text themselves before the book is finished.

In the UK and Ireland, Mothering Sunday falls three weeks before Easter Sunday; in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May. Either way, the book can be read as early as breakfast. Afterwards, ask your child what they would give mum if they could give her anything at all. Write the answer inside the front cover.

You fill in the child's name, age and what they like, and upload a photo. The story about Mother's Day is written for your very own child, and the thirteen pictures and the cover are drawn from the photo in the style you choose. Brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents or the pet can come along, up to five characters. If you would like to include something that has happened lately, a trip or a lost tooth, just write it and it is woven in.

The eBook is ready a few minutes after payment. Read it, change the text and ask for new pictures until you are happy. Then order it as an A4 hardcover book, printed and sent to your door, or straight to the child as a gift. Do add the audiobook or the coloring pages. Start creating the book or read more about the prices. Would you like to see a finished book before you decide? Browse our example books.