The Moon Bakery
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30 pages, 20 x 20 cm, your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page.
Hardcover €47.90 · Softcover €37.90
Your child is the first hero, and up to 3 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up. €8.00 per extra hero
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Flat cookies, a burnt edge, a cloud of flour: oops means learning.
What's inside
- 30 pages, 4 of them colouring pages to fill in
- 20 × 20 cm hardcover (softcover too)
- Thick silk paper (170 g)
- A page for grown-ups: tips and questions to talk about
- Your child drawn from your photo on every illustrated page
What makes it different
- Drawn from your photo on every illustrated page, not a cartoon with a name pasted in
- In a Greek book, the name takes its right form in every sentence (του Γιώργου, τον Γιώργο)
- Every book is checked page by page before it's printed
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Helps with
Mistakes
Mistakes and frustration: staying kind to yourself when things go wrong, and trying again.
The tool your child practises in the story
Oops means learning
When something goes wrong, first take a breath and say "Oops means learning!" together. Then look at what happened, choose one small thing to change, and try again. Keep it light, and use it for your own mistakes too.
For grown-ups
What this story is about
At a magical bakery on the moon, your child wants to bake perfect cookies for the stars, and some go wrong: too flat, burnt, flour everywhere. The frustration is real, and the kind baker makes mistakes too, and laughs. Your child works out what went wrong and changes one thing, and when the last star cookie breaks with no one there to help, mends it alone: a bit crooked, still a star.
Three ways to talk about it
- Name the frustration before fixing anything: "You worked so hard and it went flat. That is really annoying."
- Let your child see your own mistakes, and say "oops means learning" out loud when they happen.
- Praise the trying and the changing: "You noticed what happened and tried a new way."
Three questions to ask
- How did you feel when the cookies came out flat?
- What did Baker Bun do after dropping the egg?
- What is something you got better at by trying again?
Practise the tool together: Oops means learning
When something goes wrong, first take a breath and say "Oops means learning!" together. Then look at what happened, choose one small thing to change, and try again. Keep it light, and use it for your own mistakes too.
If your child's frustration is very strong, lasts for weeks, or often ends in big meltdowns or giving up on everything, it is worth talking to your paediatrician or a child psychologist.
From a photo to the book
One phone photo is all we need. Here is Ben's photo and the cover we made from it.
Invented example: Ben is a made-up child, not a customer. The photo was made for this example; the book was made from it the same way we make yours.
Look inside
Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. These sample pages show an invented child called Ben.
It was a little round bakery with a crescent-shaped chimney puffing sugary clouds. In the doorway stood Baker Bun, a cheerful moon-rabbit in a small blue hat. "Just in time! Tonight the stars come for their cookies, and I have far too many to bake." Bun held out a wooden spoon. "Will you help?" Ben grabbed it. "I've never baked for a star. I'll make them perfect!"
"Oops means learning," said Ben, very quietly, and poked the flat blob. It was shiny and slippery. "I put in too much butter. Didn't I?" "Let's find out," said Baker Bun. So: one lump of butter this time. Only one. Mix, roll, cut, bake... Ding! The little moons kept their shape! Well... almost.
Knock, knock! The stars had come. Ben handed out golden moons, almost-moons and crunchy pieces of the big flat blob. "Moon-crumble!" announced Baker Bun. Crunch, crunch. Then the brightest star of all floated forward. It looked at the plate. It looked at the big crooked star. "That one, please," it twinkled. Crunch. Soon all five of its points were covered in crumbs.
Spread 1 of 3
Inside the book
Twelve illustrated spreads: the picture on the left, the story on the right. This sample uses an invented family to show the illustration style.
Mia was counting stars at the window when a smell floated in. Warm vanilla. Sugar. Something baking! Then a silvery moonbeam stretched down to the windowsill, wide and flat, like a staircase made of light. Up, up, step by shiny step. Right at the top, on the moon, a tiny round window was glowing.
Who can be a hero
Your child, and more heroes if you like
Your child is the first hero, and up to 3 more: brother or sister, mum or dad, grandparent, another grown-up.
Your child bakes with a moon-rabbit and learns to try again.
- Hardcover: €47.90
- Softcover: €37.90
+ €6.90 shipping · free from 2 books
Personalise this book
Styles
Soft 3D
AvailableRounded, softly lit 3D characters with big expressive eyes. Faces stay recognisable: hair, glasses, smile.
Storybook gouache
AvailableMatte, hand-painted colours with visible brush texture and soft edges, like a classic picture book.
Watercolour
AvailableLoose, soft washes of colour with fine ink lines and the texture of real paper.
Pencil and watercolour
AvailableColoured pencil over light watercolour washes, warm and drawn by hand.
Paper collage
AvailableLayers of cut and torn coloured paper, with grain and edges you can almost touch.
Clay
AvailableSculpted from soft modelling clay, like a handmade stop-motion film.
Vintage storybook
AvailableThe look of mid-century picture books: flat shapes, muted colours, a soft printed grain.
Fantasy painting
AvailableRich, painterly fantasy scenes full of glowing light.
Anime-inspired
AvailableClean line art, cel shading and large, expressive eyes.
Pop anime 3D
AvailableCel-shaded 3D with big sparkling eyes and bright, glowing colours.
Bold comic
AvailableThick ink lines, flat bright colours, halftone dots and dynamic angles.
Cute chibi
AvailableTiny bodies, big heads and soft pastel colours.
Formats and prices
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