Mira and the Shadow Beast

A demo book from With Me Books — custom storybooks where YOUR child is the hero of a story about a real feeling she's working through.

Watch the book get drawn

This whole book — cover and all — was illustrated in the same cartoon style you'll get in yours. Press play.

Read the pages

A 7-page demo. In your custom book, the hero's name, likeness, and the fear or feeling she's working through are made to order.

Cover
Mira and the Shadow Beast
Daytime
Mira wasn't scared of much — not in the daytime.
Night falls
But at night, her bedroom changed its mind.
The eyes
Under the bed, two amber eyes stared back.
The beast is scared too
"Please don't be scared," he whispered. "I'm scared too."
Flying together
So Mira and the Shadow Beast flew into the dark together.
Shadow Meadow
And the dark, it turned out, was full of friends.

Choose your art style

Every With Me Book is custom-illustrated in the style you pick. Here's the same scene in five of our signature styles.

Animated Cartoon

Animated Cartoon

Pixar / Bluey / Studio Ghibli vibe

Classic Watercolor Storybook

Classic Watercolor Storybook

Beatrix Potter / timeless children's book

Bold Flat Vector

Bold Flat Vector

Mo Willems / Peanuts / modern graphic

Soft Pastel Dreamy

Soft Pastel Dreamy

Oliver Jeffers / Jon Klassen

Crayon & Pencil Sketch

Crayon & Pencil Sketch

Lauren Child / childlike handmade

Why a With Me Book?

Her name. Her face. Her feelings.

Every Little Hero Book is drawn and written for one child. Tell us her name, what she looks like, and the real thing she's working through — a fear, a change, a feeling — and we build the whole story around her. The hero on every page is your child.

Built on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's social-emotional framework: stories aren't just stories. They're how kids rehearse being brave.

Order yours this holiday

Digital books ship in 7 days. Printed-and-bound-by-Christmas cutoff: December 10.