A Storybook Where Mom Is Finally the Hero
Upload one photo, describe the story you want, and we illustrate an original 12-page book starring your mother. Not another candle. Something that could only ever be hers.
Create Their Story — Free PreviewYour mother has spent a large part of her life reading stories to other people. Bedtime chapters, school projects, birthday cards signed on everyone else's behalf. Gifts for her tend to run in one direction: something for the kitchen, something scented, something she will thank you for warmly and use politely. The problem is not effort. The problem is that almost nothing on a shelf can say the specific thing you actually want to say to her.
A Delilah & Mia book starts with one clear photo of your mom. Our AI turns that photo into original illustrations across every page, so the woman in the artwork carries her hair, her coloring, and the expression you would recognize from across a room. Then you describe the story you want: the garden she will not stop expanding, the road trip she still tells wrong on purpose, the version of her who solves an impossible problem before lunch. We write and illustrate it around her.
Adults are a supported hero here, not a workaround. The story tool treats a grown-up as a main character in their own right, so the finished book does not read like a children's title with your mother's name dropped into it. Up to five characters can appear, each with their own photo, which means you, your siblings, her grandchildren, and the dog can all turn up on the page beside her.
Be clear-eyed about what this is, because that is the part people get wrong. It is a picture book. Twelve illustrated pages, generous artwork, a story you can read out loud in about ten minutes. That is exactly why it works as a gift for a mother. It is not homework. It gets read at the table on the day you give it, passed to whoever is sitting closest, and then it goes somewhere she can see it. A candle burns down by February. This is still on the shelf at Christmas.
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Fully Customizable
Your story, in your words
Made With Love
Every book is unique
3 Formats
Digital, softcover, hardcover
Why It Lands Harder Than Another Thoughtful Object
The gifts that work for mothers all share one quality: they prove somebody paid attention. A book about her forces you to decide what her story actually is, and she can tell that you decided. The details you write in are the real gift. The illustrations are the reason she keeps it.
Nothing about the process is a gamble. Upload one photo and a free illustrated cover appears in about a minute, with no account and no card. Sign in with Google, describe the story, and the first two pages are illustrated free so you can judge the quality before spending anything. Three free redraws come with the preview, shared across the cover and those pages, so you can steer the look while it is still costing you nothing.
It actually looks like her
The AI illustrates from her photo, so her hair, coloring, and face carry across all twelve pages, not just the cover.
See the cover before paying
One photo gets you a free illustrated cover. No account, no card, nothing to remember to cancel.
The whole family fits
Up to five characters can appear, each with their own photo. Siblings, grandchildren, and the dog included.
Fix anything you don't love
Unlocking the full story comes with at least 15 redraw credits, spendable on any page or the cover.
Simple as 1-2-3
How It Works
Describe Their Story
Write down what the story should be about: what they are known for, what they did, who else belongs in it.
Upload One Photo
One clear photo of them. Our AI illustrates from it, so the hero carries their real face on every page.
Choose Your Format
Digital by email in minutes, or a printed 32-page book. Extra personal pages can be switched on if you want them.
Describe the Story
Story Ideas That Work Well
There is no menu to choose from. You describe the story you want in your own words and it gets written around that. These are three angles that work especially well for a mother.
The Thing She Is Known For
The garden, the sourdough, the sewing machine, the impossible Thanksgiving timeline. Take whatever she is quietly famous for inside your family and let it become the center of an adventure.
A Younger Version of Her
Set the story before you existed. The apartment with the terrible heating, the first car, the job she walked away from. Children rarely picture their mother having her own beginning, and seeing it illustrated is disarming.
Everyone She Made
Put her children and grandchildren in the book alongside her and give the whole group a quest. Ideal for a milestone birthday, and reliably the page everyone crowds around.
Choose Your Format
Available in Three Beautiful Formats
Digital
$14.99
Instant delivery. Read on any device.
Softcover
$39.00
Professional print. Ships to your door.
Hardcover
$49.99
Premium keepsake. Built to last decades.
Good to Know
Getting This Right the First Time
Steal a good photo before you need it
Mothers are usually the one holding the camera, so recent clear photos of them are scarce. Look for one where her face is well lit, unobstructed, and facing forward. Sunglasses, hats pulled low, and group shots taken from across a room all make the likeness harder to hold.
Write down the specific things, not the nice things
Loving and kind produces a generic story. The blue mixing bowl, the way she uses the dog's full name when he is in trouble, the annual argument about the thermostat. Specifics are what she will recognize as herself.
Order the printed book about two weeks out
Printing takes 5 to 7 business days before shipping even starts. The digital version arrives by email within minutes, so if the date is close, give her that and let the printed copy arrive after.
Got Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the book really be about an adult, or is this only for kids?
It is built for both. An adult is a supported hero type, so your mom can be the main character without the book reading like a children's story with her name dropped in. You choose the reading level when you create it, and for an adult hero you would pick the oldest band.
How do I make a personalized book for my mom?
Upload one clear photo of her and a free illustrated cover appears in about a minute, with no account and no credit card. Then sign in with Google, describe the story you want, and the first two pages are illustrated free. You only pay once you have seen it.
What if the illustrations don't look like her?
You get three free redraws during the preview, shared across the cover and the two free pages, so you can steer it before spending anything. After you unlock the full story you get at least 15 more redraw credits, usable on any page or the cover.
Can my siblings and her grandchildren be in it too?
Yes. Up to five characters can appear in the book, and each one can have their own photo, so they are illustrated as themselves rather than as generic extras.
What actually comes in the printed book?
The printed edition is a 32-page book: the twelve story pages laid out as full spreads with a full-bleed illustration facing its text, plus title pages and decorative endpapers. You can also switch on extra personal pages, including a dedication, a letter from you, a photo page, and a quote. They start switched off, so nothing prints blank if you skip them.
How much does it cost and where do you ship?
The digital book is $14.99 and arrives by email. The softcover bundle is $39.00 and the hardcover bundle is $49.99, and both include the digital copy. Printed books ship to the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. The digital edition works anywhere.
From our family to yours
We are a family business in Las Vegas, named after our daughters, Delilah and Mia. We built this to put children into stories, and then people started making books for their mothers, and that turned out to be the version that makes people cry. A mother spends decades being the one who reads the story out loud. Handing her a book where she is the story is a strange and lovely reversal, and it has quietly become one of our favorite things to print.
— The Delilah & Mia family
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