Everything BespokeTales does
Grouped, so you can find the one thing you care about. Tap any to read what it is, what it is for, and how to use it.
Who is in the book
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Six in the book, up to three heroesAnyone can lead. A grandmother, an uncle, the dog. The child it is written for can even sit one out, and every picture is drawn around whoever you cast.Pets and companionsA dog, a cat, a dragon or an imaginary friend gets a real part in the plot.On the homepageDrawn from a real photoOne photo becomes a drawn likeness. The photo itself never appears in the book.A dedication pageA message on the opening page, the way a real book has one.
How it looks and how it is told
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Pick the kind of storyAdventure, mystery, fantasy, comedy and more. The genre changes what happens in the book, not only how it sounds.Choose how the story is toldA classic storyteller, a spooky one, or the child's own diary. It changes the events and the pace, not only the tone. Pick the artwork to match.Pick the artworkChoose the look of the pictures, book by book, from warm watercolour to bold comic action.Anywhere real in the worldThe Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the park at the end of your street. Type any real place in the world and the story happens there, among landmarks that actually exist.You choose the story firstA few story ideas arrive first, always different kinds of tale. Nothing is drawn until you pick one.Never the same twiceNew words and new artwork every book. Nothing is pulled off a shelf.Your people, your places, drawnEvery page is illustrated on its own, from that page's scene: who is in it, what the story put them in, and the place you chose.Every picture is inspectedBefore a page is kept, we check each character's face and clothes against how they were drawn before.
What it teaches
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Their school's curriculumWhatever their grade is on comes up automatically from their school's standards. Or upload your own: the sheet from school, a tutor's plan, a syllabus you wrote.Or bring your own curriculumUpload the sheet from school, a tutor's plan, or a syllabus you wrote.Facts, riddles and quizzes between the pagesThe book stops for a real fact about the place, a riddle built from its own words, a silly poem. At the end, questions that show what stuck. You choose which of these appear.Questions that tell you somethingQuestions after every book, marked on the first try, so the number tells you what they really knew.Practice sets on any subjectLonger sets of practice on any subject, in rounds that start easy and build.On the homepageLife skills, told not preachedSharing, courage, telling the truth. Shown by what happens, never spelled out.On the homepageReading level you setMove the words up or down as their confidence changes.On the homepageTaught the way it actually worksA machine is explained by taking it apart, a habit by living it. The story matches the subject.The science is checkedNumbers and science claims are checked before the book is finished.A new angle every chapterEach chapter comes at the same idea from a different direction instead of repeating it.
What they learned
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Their progress, subject by subjectOne board for each child: every subject and topic, every storybook with questions and every practice pack, marked on the first try.On the homepageHow each book wentEvery storybook's questions one by one: what they chose, what was right first time, and what they solved in the end.A report for every practice packWhen a pack is done, see how it went by stage, by topic, by subject when it covered more than one, and question by question.Turn a result into the next thingUnder the score, a link starts more practice on the very same topic.
How they read it
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Read along, word by wordThe book reads itself out loud with real expression, lighting up each word as it is said and turning its own pages, so they can always see exactly where they are.A dictionary that knows the storyTap a word: what it means right here in the plot, its plain meaning, and words that mean the same or the opposite. Tap a sentence and it unpacks what is happening. Tap the speaker to hear it said aloud.Picks up where they left offA real two page spread on a wide screen, one page on a phone, and it offers back the page they stopped on.Print it and read it off the screenEvery finished book comes with a copy you can download and print at home, so a child reads a real printed book instead of a screen.On the homepageShare it with anyone they loveGrandparents, an aunt overseas, a favourite teacher. A link and a password and they read the whole book, the voice reading it and the pages turning, all of it. No account, and they can change nothing.On the homepage
Who stays in charge
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Your child’s privacy
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A parent firstWe check that you are a parent before your child's name goes in, and we ask for nothing about them until then.We keep as little as possibleOnly what a book needs. Your child's photo is kept private, is never shown in the book itself, and goes when you delete them.No advertising, to anyoneNo adverts in the product, and no purchase prompts in Kid Mode.Delete anything, for goodA child, a book or the whole account. Gone, but for a dated record that you asked.