A storyyou can hold.
A storybook you can print
Books for readers 6 to 12
A storybook
they ask for again.
Once upon a time/
The same rabbit/
Every page/
Once upon a time/
The same rabbit/
Every page/
Once upon a time/
The same rabbit/
Every page/
Once upon a time/
The same rabbit/
Every page/
A book that reads
out loud
Every page has a line of story printed under the picture and the characters talking in their own balloons — so there is something to read aloud, and something for a child who is learning to read it back to you.
The same rabbit
on every page
Say yes to how he looks and that is how he is drawn for the rest of the book — the same markings, the same red scarf, the same face, whether he is on a hill or in the dark.
Their drawing
becomes the hero
Photograph what they drew and it comes back drawn properly — still recognizably theirs, ears and all — and then it is the character the whole story is about.
What they
could start
Four ways in, for somebody who wants a bookand does not know what to type.
What a book
does
One page is drawn first
Committing to a look nobody has seen is the wrong way around. Page one is drawn for about the price of a stamp. Look at it, change the look if you want, and then draw the other twenty-three.
A size the printer prints
Picture books are square, 8.5 by 8.5 inches; comics come at 7 by 10 and manga at 6 by 9. Each is a trim size the printer actually prints, so the book you page through on screen is the book that arrives.
Print-ready, not print-ish
300 dots per inch with an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, and the page count padded to a multiple of four, because that is how a bound book is made. Spreads run across the gutter.
Print it at home, or have it bound
Take the PDF to your own printer tonight for nothing. Or order it bound: softcover from $8.50, hardcover from $17.14, priced by the page count, anywhere from 24 to 96 pages, up to ten copies at a time. Shipping and any sales tax are added at checkout.
/ Change one page
Change a page and only that page is drawn again.Moving the picture, or changing where the words sit on it, costs nothing at all — it is the same picture placed differently, back in seconds. The only change that has to be drawn is one that needs a new picture, and even then it is one page and not the book.
Zing Canvas
What every book here is built on
