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A Personalised Christmas Book Set in Their Own Town

Most personalised children's books change the name. Ours changes the town: six real places you choose, a map of your streets, and the real sky over your town on Christmas Eve.

Here Looks Good · 08 November 2026 · 3 min di lettura

A page from the sample picture book showing Reading's Abbey Gateway in winter

There are plenty of personalised children's books where the name changes and everything else stays the same. We wanted to make one where the whole place changes: a Christmas story that happens in their own town, on streets they actually walk down.

The story

Every town has a robin who sings Christmas in at midnight. This year it's Dot's turn, but she's small, and the wind has blown her song into six pieces. Your child helps her find them, one at each of six places round your town, and in the end it's their laugh that finishes the song just in time.

What makes it their town

  • Six real places you choose. The park, the high street, the church, Grandma's road. Each one is a real place in your town, made from a real photograph in the book's winter style.
  • Your own places too. At least two of the six can be places only your family would pick, like their school or your street. If we haven't got your town yet, you can choose from real photos of it.
  • A street map of your town with the six places pinned, and a little house where you live if you add your postcode. We only use the postcode to place the house; it isn't stored or printed.
  • The real night sky over your town on Christmas Eve, worked out from real star positions.
  • A busy "Find Dot" double page with Dot, your child and their pet hidden in it, made fresh for every book.
  • Your family. Up to four family members and a pet in the pictures. You can build your child from choices (hair, coat, glasses) or from a photo.
  • Dot's Christmas Song, with a QR code so you can play it, plus a keepsake page and a handprint page.

See it before you buy

You see the cover, the title page and the map of your town as you go. Before you pay, you can read the whole book on screen, page by page, and share a link with someone else to check it over.

The book

A 30-page hardback, 21 × 28 cm, printed to order in the UK. It's £29.99 with free UK delivery, and a second copy in the same parcel is £19.99, which is handy for grandparents.

Order by Sunday 13 December

Each book is printed to order, so it needs a little longer than a print. For UK delivery before Christmas, order by Sunday 13 December. See all our Christmas last order dates.

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