A studio service
Find your child in every scene.
Busy, detailed scenes where your child is hidden somewhere on every page, along with things to spot. Made to order from a photo, with places your family knows.
N° 01Busy scenes, packed with detail
Busy scenes, packed with detail
Each spread is a full scene, such as a market, a park or an airport, packed with things to find.
N° 02Your places
Your places
Include your town, your school or a family trip; send photos and we draw them into the scenes.
N° 03Things to find
Things to find
A list on each page of objects to spot, with the answers at the back.
N° 04How it is made
How a book like this comes together.
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The list of places comes first
We agree the scenes with you before sketching, and each place gets its own picture.
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One outfit, every scene
Your child wears the same clothes and one clear item, such as a hat or a backpack, in every scene. That is what makes a small figure findable.
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Harder as the book goes on
Early scenes hide the child in plain view. Later scenes use more crowd and more cover.
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Family things as items to find
A pet, a favourite toy, the family car or your front door can be hidden in the scenes as things to spot.
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A last scene at home
The book can close with the child in plain view in a place they know. It gives a search book an ending.
N° 05What goes wrong
Common mistakes, and how to avoid them.
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The child hidden in the fold
A figure placed at the centre of a spread disappears into the binding. Your child and the listed items are kept clear of the fold and the trim.
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Too hard for the child's age
A scene that suits an eight-year-old frustrates a four-year-old. Tell us the age and we set the size of the hidden figure and the density of the crowd to match.
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A likeness that fades at small size
A face a few millimetres high cannot carry a likeness alone. Hair, outfit and colours do the work, and you approve the character sheet first.
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A place nobody recognises
One photo of a building is often not enough to draw it. We ask for views from more than one side when the photos do not show enough.
N° 06Your brief
What to send us to get started.
You do not need all of it. Send what you have and we will ask in writing for anything missing.
• Photos of each child, face and full length
• Names and ages
• The places to include, with photos of each
• An outfit or item the child is known for
• Family things to hide: a pet, a toy, a car
• Where you plan to print, if you know
N° 07Peek inside
Pages like these.
Sample artwork made by Kompanie to show the kind of pages we make. Not client work.
N° 08Investment
Three packages, fixed prices.
Little Book
From $1,125
Board books, first-words books and short picture books. 4–5 weeks.
- Up to 2 characters, with a character sheet
- Up to 12 pages and 8 illustrations
- Cover illustration and title lettering
- One revision round on sketches
- Print-ready PDF and ebook cover
Picture Book
From $2,175
A full 32-page picture book. 6–8 weeks.
- Up to 3 characters, with character sheets
- 15 illustrations plus cover
- Two revision rounds per illustration
- Endpapers and title page
- Print-ready PDF and fixed-layout ebook
Big Book
From $3,675
Longer books, nonfiction, cookbooks and books for older readers. 8–12 weeks.
- Up to 4 characters plus settings
- Up to 30 illustrations
- Diagrams, maps or step-by-step art where needed
- Two revision rounds per illustration
- Print-ready PDF, EPUB and fixed-layout ebook
Before you choose
What you get
- A fixed price for the scope listed
- Sketches or a first draft to approve before anything is final
- Print-ready and editable files, yours to keep
What we don’t do
- Writing or editing the story
- Printing and shipping
- ISBN, publishing account setup or marketing
- Translation
Extra pages, slides or revision rounds are quoted before we start them.
N° 09Questions
The answers we give most often.
- Why does this cost more than a vehicle book?
- Search-and-find scenes take much longer to draw, so it starts at the Picture Book package.
- Can siblings be included?
- Yes. Up to three children fit within the Picture Book package.
- How many scenes does the book have?
- The Picture Book package has 15 illustrations plus the cover. How scenes and answer pages are counted is confirmed in the quote.
- Can our pet be in the book?
- Yes. Send photos of the pet with your brief. Whether it counts toward the package's character limit is confirmed in the quote.
- Do I see my child's character before the scenes are painted?
- Yes. The character sheet comes first and you approve it before any scene is drawn.
Start your book
Ready to make your book?
Tell us what you're making. You'll get a fixed price and a schedule within two business days.