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the first personalized orthodox storybook library

Write your child into the story of Noah's Ark.

A hand-finished storybook in which your little one walks beside Noah — two by two, through the rain, all the way to the rainbow. Made with reverence, and approved by you before a single page is printed.

three stories — choose theirs

Reserve the Founding Edition — $0 today Meet the hero ↓

First printing — 100 numbered copies · founding price $35.99 $44.99

Clergy-reviewed You approve every page No photo needed Printed in the USA

Concept preview — final illustrations are fully painted, and you approve every page.

chapter one

Every book begins with its hero.

No photograph needed — just the details a godparent knows by heart. Watch the cover above and the pages below become theirs.

Their character

Everything can be changed later, before printing.

In your real book you'll also add eyes, patron saint, baptism date, and a dedication from you.

The Rain Begins

When the first drops fell, Noah looked at the darkening sky — and then at his young helper. “Quickly, Mila — the little ones first.” So Mila lifted the smallest lamb and carried it gently up the ramp, two by two, into the great wooden ark.

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Sample spread from “Mila and the Ark of Noah” — 32 pages, every one with your child in it.

Six sample pages, print-size 8.5″ × 8.5″, with your character on them — see how the real book will feel.

chapter two

How a keepsake is made.

1

Tell us about your child

Two minutes: their name and look, their patron saint, the baptism date, and a dedication in your words.

2

We illustrate their story

Your child is drawn into all 32 pages, beside Noah and the animals — warm storybook art, never in place of the holy.

3

You approve the proof

A complete digital proof arrives in your inbox. We adjust until it's right — nothing is printed until you say so.

4

The keepsake arrives

An archival hardcover, hand-numbered if you're a founding family, at your door in about ten days.

chapter three

Inside the pages.

Told faithfully from Genesis 6–9, in read-aloud language for ages 2–8.

  • 32 pages, 8.5″ × 8.5″ — thick archival matte paper in a lay-flat-friendly hardcover.
  • A dedication page with the baptism date, patron saint, godparents' names, and your message.
  • Your child on every spread — helping, watching, wondering — drawn from the details you give us.
  • Founding copies hand-numbered, 1 through 100, on the dedication page.

the call two by two forty days the dove the rainbow promise

For Mila

baptized on the 14th of September,
with love from the godparents —
“may your lamp be always burning.”

founding copy № 17 of 100

made with reverence

A storybook — never an icon.

We love the Church's iconographic tradition far too much to imitate it. Icons belong to prayer. These are storybook illustrations — warm, hand-finished, and impossible to mistake for an icon.

Beside, never instead

Your child joins the story as a helper and a witness — never depicted as Christ, the Theotokos, or a saint.

Chosen with care

We began with Noah's Ark deliberately: a beloved story that is told faithfully with no depiction of Christ at all.

Reviewed before it ships

Every page is checked for theological fidelity by an Orthodox priest before it is ever printed.

at home in greek · antiochian · serbian · russian · romanian · oca families alike

one gift, kept for life

For the day they'll never remember,
and never forget.

Baptism day

The classic gift from the godparents — a keepsake with the date written into it forever.

Name day

Their saint, their name, their story — the gift that explains why their name matters.

Slava

For Serbian families — a gift as rooted as the family's own patron feast.

First Pascha

Something for the basket that outlasts the chocolate by a few decades.

Christmas

Under the tree or after Liturgy — a story to read every Nativity fast.

Just because

Grandparents need no occasion. Grandparents need a good book with the grandchild in it.

the founding edition

Reserve now — pay nothing today.

When the press opens this fall, you'll get a private link to build your book. Founding prices are locked for the first hundred copies.

One hero — yours — through every story. Reserve a single book, or the whole founding library below.

Digital

Tonight, on any screen

$9.99

 

  • The full 32-page personalized book as a beautiful PDF
  • Perfect for a baptism-eve gift

founding edition · hand-numbered

Hardcover keepsake

At your door in ~10 days

$35.99$44.99

founding price · first 100 copies

  • Archival hardcover, 8.5″ × 8.5″, thick matte pages
  • Hand-numbered dedication page, № 1–100
  • Digital PDF included free

Paperback

At your door in ~10 days

$21.99$27.99

founding price

  • The same 32 personalized pages, soft cover
  • A lovely second copy for grandparents

the founding library · all three stories

Three hardcovers, one little hero

Noah's Ark, David & Goliath and The Lions' Den — the same child through every story, each copy hand-numbered, delivered as each title is finished.

$84.99$107.97

save $22.98 · founding price

No payment today. Reserving locks the founding discount and your place in the first hundred.

what the library grows next

Which story should we illustrate next?

Tap to vote — your picks are attached to your reservation.

the founding hundred

A hundred books. A hundred families.

Leave your details and we'll email your private link to build your child's book — proof first, print after, № on the page.

We'll write only about your book. Unsubscribe anytime. Your child's details are used for the book alone — never sold, never shared.

Welcome to the founding hundred.

Watch your inbox — your private link to build Mila's book is on its way.

questions, answered plainly

What parents and godparents ask.

Is this an icon? Is it appropriate for an Orthodox home?

It is a storybook, deliberately not an icon. The illustrations are warm children's-book art in a style that could never be confused with sacred iconography, and your child appears beside the story's heroes — never in place of Christ, the Theotokos, or a saint. Every page is reviewed for theological fidelity by an Orthodox priest before printing. Our first story, Noah's Ark, was chosen partly because it can be told faithfully with no depiction of Christ at all.

Do you need a photograph of my child?

No — and we prefer not to have one. You describe your child the way a godparent would: name, hair, eyes, skin. The character is drawn from those details alone. Nothing is uploaded, and the details you share are used only to make your book.

What if something in the book isn't right?

Before anything is printed you receive a complete digital proof — every page. We adjust hair, spelling, dedication, anything, until it's right. If a printed book ever arrives damaged or misprinted, we reprint it free.

How long does it take to arrive?

The digital PDF is same-day. Printed books are produced in 3–5 business days in the US and typically arrive within about ten days. Baptism around the corner? Gift the PDF at the font and the hardcover a week later.

We're Serbian — will this fit our tradition? Greek? Russian?

Yes. We begin with the shared stories of Scripture, at home in every Orthodox jurisdiction — Greek, Antiochian, Serbian, Russian, Romanian, OCA. Saint editions (St. Nicholas, St. George, Sveti Sava…) are coming; vote above. Da — srpsko izdanje je u pripremi, na srpskom jeziku.

What age is it for?

Read-aloud ages 2–8. The language is simple and faithful — short sentences for little ears, nothing watered down.

Who is behind this?

A small family effort by an Orthodox parent and engineer — illustrated with care, reviewed by clergy, printed in the US. We're making the book we couldn't find for our own family.

Founding edition — $35.99 Reserve — $0 today