How personalised is a Makesake book?

Every story is written from scratch using your child's name, physical appearance, home town, country, a friend's name, and what they love. No two Makesake books are ever the same.

Who writes and illustrates Makesake books?

Makesake books are written and illustrated using our proprietary creative pipeline, guided by a rigorous children's literature brief developed by experienced teachers and authors. Stories have genuine narrative structure, real humour, and emotional heart.

When are the illustrations created?

Your child's illustrations are created after you order. Each page is painted fresh for your specific book in your chosen style — watercolour, bold classic or comic book. The full illustrated book is delivered as a PDF and, for print orders, sent to our print partner.

Do I need to upload a photo?

No, it's optional. You can describe your child's appearance using our character picker and we'll illustrate them from that description, or upload a reference photo so the illustrations resemble them more closely.

Where do you ship printed books?

Printed books are fulfilled by our print partner Gelato and ship worldwide. Softcover and hardcover books are available in an 8x8in square format.

Is there a money-back guarantee?

Yes. If you are not happy with your book we will remake it or refund you in full.

AI Disclosure

How We Use AI

Last updated: 23 July 2026

Makesake Books uses artificial intelligence to help write and illustrate your child’s story. We think you deserve to know exactly how that works, so we’ve written this page to explain it plainly.

1. Our approach to AI

We use AI as a tool within a creative process we’ve designed, not as a replacement for care and quality control. Every Book is reviewed by us before it reaches you.

In plain EnglishAI helps us generate a story and illustrations that would otherwise take a human illustrator weeks to produce for every single family.

2. Which AI providers we use

At the time this page was last updated, we use:

Anthropic (Claude) — to help generate the written story.
Google (Gemini) — to help generate the illustrations.

We may change providers over time if we believe another offers better quality, safety, or reliability. If we do, we’ll update this page and our Privacy Policy.

3. What AI does in your Book

The story

Using the details you provide — your child’s name, appearance, interests, and any dedication or companion details — our system generates a story tailored to your child.

The illustrations

Using your uploaded photo or drawing together with the generated story, our system creates painted-style illustrations of your child as the hero of every page.

4. What stays human

AI doesn’t run unsupervised. We design and refine the creative process, the prompts, and the guardrails that shape what gets generated, and we regularly review our systems to ensure security and quality.

5. Data shared with our AI providers

We only share the information needed to generate your Book — such as the relevant Uploaded Content and story details — with our AI Providers. We don’t share more than necessary, and we choose providers whose terms govern how information submitted through their tools can be used.

We’d encourage you to review our AI Providers’ own privacy and data-use policies directly if you’d like more detail than we’re able to provide here, since those terms are set by them and may change independently of Makesake Books.

6. Accuracy and creative variability

Because each Book is generated fresh, there can occasionally be small inconsistencies — for example, a detail that varies slightly from one illustrated page to the next, or a likeness that isn’t a perfect match to your uploaded photo or drawing. This is a known characteristic of current AI image generation, not a fault in our process.

We review every Book before sending it and will address genuine quality issues raised after delivery — see our Terms of Use for how refunds and remakes are handled.

7. Safety and content moderation

We use a combination of automated checks and human review to help prevent inappropriate, unsafe, or offensive content from appearing in a Book. If you upload content that raises a safety concern, we may decline to process it and will contact you.

8. Your choices

If something in your Book doesn’t look right, contact us at stories@makesakebooks.com and we’ll work with you to fix it, which may include regenerating specific pages.

9. Keeping this page updated

As our use of AI evolves — new providers, new capabilities, or new safeguards — we’ll keep this page current so you always know how your Book is actually made.

10. Contact us

Questions about how AI is used in your Book are always welcome. Email us at stories@makesakebooks.com.

Our PromiseWe’ll always do our best to be transparent about how our books are created. If AI ever falls short of the quality we promise, we’ll fix it.