Something new is coming from BookHook: a place where children write their own story, add their own pictures — drawn, photographed, or imagined into being — and get back a real, beautifully made ebook of their very own. To read on screen, print at home, and put on the shelf next to the books that inspired it.
Three steps, and the third one arrives in their inbox.
A child (or a whole class) writes their story — an adventure, a mystery, the day the dog learned to talk. Any length, any spelling. The story stays theirs, word for word; we make books, we don't rewrite children.
They add their own drawings or photos — or describe the pictures in their head and watch them appear on the page. Either way, every image belongs to their story and nobody else's.
We turn it into a properly made ebook — cover, title page, the works — and send it back ready to read and print at home. There is no moment quite like a child holding a book with their own name on the front.
Ask any teacher: the child who writes a book reads differently forever afterwards. They know how stories work from the inside.
Make Your Own Book is being built now. Registering interest is free, takes one email, and means you'll be invited before it opens to everyone — at launch pricing.
While you wait: the BookHook Learning Adventures — stories built to engage, educate and empower — are heading to Amazon and Kindle soon.
Meet the series →Built by a teacher who lived it. Arjun Davé — 7 years in London primaries, QTS, UCL PGCE. Make Your Own Book comes from years of watching children grow the moment their writing was treated like it mattered. Built in a classroom, not a boardroom.