A personalised book about a wizard school

A school for wizards takes something your child already knows – classrooms, teachers, playtime – and fills it with magic. That makes it exciting for a child about to start school and just as much fun for one who has been going for a while. In the book your child gets their first wand, a desk partner with peculiar habits and lessons where the chalk draws all by itself. It is about learning something hard, getting it a bit wrong and trying again. With magic in the mix, it becomes easier to see their own school day in a new light.

In a book about wizard school, your child can join a class where the teachers are as new as the pupils, have a flying lesson on a vacuum cleaner or search for the school librarian, who has been turned into a book. There might be a test where a seed has to sprout in one minute, and a classmate who cannot get anything right – until your child lends a hand. Magic is difficult, and that is exactly what makes it fun. Playtime can be the most magical part of all: a swing that loops round the entire school, or a sandpit where you can dig up old spells.

Use things your child already knows from nursery or school. Is there a teacher they love, a best friend, a playtime when there is always a game of tag? Bring it in, and it can reappear in enchanted form. If your child is worried about something – finding the right classroom, not being able to read yet – the book can let it happen with magic and turn out well. If the first day at school is just around the corner, there is also the Starting school theme.

For the very youngest it is mostly movement and colour: a wand that twinkles, a cat that flies. Pre-schoolers like a day with a beginning, a middle and an end, from the first bell to home time. School-age children can be given a spell that misfires and a problem to solve together with the class. Ten-year-olds can manage a longer story about a secret in the school cellar.

After reading, make up spells for everyday things: one that helps shoes find their partners in the hall, one that makes broccoli taste like ice cream. Write them down in a notebook of your own. Talk about what the child in the book found hard and what helped – it is usually something your child recognises from their own life. Make a wand from a stick found in the woods, wind wool around it and decide what it can do.

You fill in the child's name, age and what they like, and upload a photo. The story about a wizard school is written for your very own child, and the thirteen pictures and the cover are drawn from the photo in the style you choose. Brothers and sisters, parents, grandparents or the pet can come along, up to five characters. If you would like to include something that has happened lately, a trip or a lost tooth, just write it and it is woven in.

The eBook is ready a few minutes after payment. Read it, change the text and ask for new pictures until you are happy. Then order it as an A4 hardback book, printed and sent to your door, or straight to the child as a gift. Do add the colouring pages. Start creating the book or read more about the prices. Would you like to see a finished book before you decide? Browse our example books.