A personalised book about Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the one day of the year built around a table: the people a child loves in one room, a meal everyone helped to make and a moment to say out loud what you're thankful for. Children feel it before they understand it, in the smell from the oven, the extra chairs and the grown-ups laughing in the kitchen. A book about Thanksgiving puts your child at that table, with their own family, their own dishes and the cousin they only see once a year. It's a present to read on the day and again every autumn, and the grown-up reading aloud gets something too: this year's table, kept.

The day gives a picture book a shape of its own: the morning in the kitchen, the guests arriving one by one, the parade on TV or a game in the garden, the long meal and the quiet after it. Your child can be the one who rescues the pie, finds the right chair for a great-grandparent, makes a name card for every place or helps a shy cousin feel at home.

The heart of the book is the moment at the table, when each person says what they're thankful for. Your child's own answer can be the last page.

Write in who comes, who cooks what and the traditions only your family has: the dish someone always brings, the walk after dinner, the soccer, the leaves raked into a pile to jump in. If you host friends, celebrate with two families or keep the day in your own way, the book can hold all of that, pets included.

In Canada Thanksgiving comes in October, at harvest time, with a long weekend of its own; the book keeps the day as your family keeps it.

For the youngest, a book of familiar faces, the smells of the kitchen and the words thank you is enough. Pre-schoolers love helping and the build-up to the meal, and school-age children can take in more: what it means to be grateful, and that some of the people at the table have come a long way to be there.

Read it on the day, or the evening before as everyone arrives, and bring it out again next year.

You fill in the child's name, age and what they like, and upload a photo. The story about Thanksgiving is written for your very own child, and the thirteen pictures and the cover are drawn from the photo in the style you choose. Brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents or the pet can come along, up to five characters. If you would like to include something that has happened lately, a trip or a lost tooth, just write it and it is woven in.

The eBook is ready a few minutes after payment, and you can change the text and ask for new pictures. Then order it as an A4 hardcover book. Start creating the book or read about the prices. Would you like to see a finished book before you decide? Browse our example books.