Want Your Child’s Idea Published in a Real Picture Book?

Join the Story Shapers Challenge—
It’s Free, It’s Fun, It’s Storytelling Reimagined.

Encourage creativity with this illustration of a child, a sheep, a bird, and a Bart the rat writing a story together at a table.

Join our Creativity Challenges—where kids (and kids-at-heart) help shape real books through their ideas, words, and art.

Sign up anytime to jump into the Story Shapers cycle—whether we’re kicking off a new challenge or publishing the next book shaped by kids like yours.

Here's how it works:

🗓️ Day 0: Theme Team prompt drops — 3 days to enter
🗳️ Day 3: Theme Team voting opens
✍️ Day 7: Word Weaver prompt drops — 3 days to enter
🗳️ Day 10: Word Weaver voting opens
🎨 Day 14: Sketch-Off prompt drops — 3 days to enter
🗳️ Day 17: Sketch-Off voting opens

Then we turn your wild, brilliant ideas into real books—with real impact.

Don’t miss Day 0. That’s when the magic begins.

Here's what you'll get:

✅ Tips for Theme Team, Word Weaver & Sketch-Off

✅ Behind-the-scenes peeks at how stories take shape

✅ First access to every new challenge