A library for the people you love
Illustrated books starring the people you love, written and drawn the same evening, read aloud if you like. Then tucked onto the shelf for keeps.
No card, just your email. scroll the shelf
One real shelf. New volumes, tucked in beside the books you already love.
Take a few photos. TuckABook draws your dog once, from the front, from the side and face on, then locks that drawing in. Every picture in every book afterward is drawn from it. Same ears. Same patch over the eye. Same ridiculous grin. It works the same way for every person you add.
The photographs are deleted once that drawing is locked. What happens to your photos
No blank page, and no drawing skill needed. You bring the people and the idea. TuckABook does the writing and the pictures, and reads it aloud if you ask.
Upload a few photos of whoever belongs in the story: a partner, a best friend, a grandparent, the kids, the dog. Each one becomes a character, and TuckABook locks in how they look. From then on they are the same on every page, in every book.
An occasion, a place, a line someone said at dinner. That is enough to start. The pen writes the story, draws the pictures and reads it out loud. You steer as much or as little as you like.
The pictures fill the whole phone screen, and it reads itself out loud if you want. One link sends it to anyone who should see it, however far away. Then it is tucked onto your shelf, and it stays yours.
The link
Finish a TuckABook and send one link. It opens as the book and nothing else. No app to install, no account to make. A grandmother three states away, a friend who moved, the one who missed the party: they open the whole story the same night it was written.
Bedtime
A TuckABook reads itself aloud, so your hands are free. The screen stays awake, so you are not tapping it. Linger on a page. Read the favorite one twice. It still ends the way a good bedtime book should, at the last page, with the light going out.
Every TuckABook starts as three choices: who it’s for, what it’s about, and how it’s drawn. The look holds from the cover to The End.
I. The reader
Young readers
Picture tales, read aloud on a lap.
Older readers
Longer stories and bigger words, read alone under the covers.
Grown readers
Short fiction for grown-ups: a birthday, an inside joke, a year worth remembering.
II. The theme
bedtimeadventurefunnybravewonderrhymesatire
What the story is about: the night’s mood, or the week’s occasion.
III. The style
The public library
A public room in the library. When someone is proud of a TuckABook, they can put it on display, and readers can wander the shelves other people keep. Moderated and unhurried, and the reading room is free to every account.
Craft
Don’t like the shadow under the eyes? Circle that one spot and say what is wrong in a sentence. You get a new version, and the rest of the page stays exactly as it was. The last three versions are kept, because the first one isn’t always right. Nothing is ever redrawn behind your back.
The pen
How ink works.
One pen, refilled on a schedule, instead of a charge for every page. The gauge shows what is left in words, never in numbers.
A month of TuckABook costs about what one hardcover picture book costs. The difference: the shelf keeps filling, the people you love are in the pictures, and the books are ready the same night.
Your first TuckABook, yours to keep, re-read and share. Your shelf and sign-in stay open. The public library’s reading room is yours to wander when it opens.
The household pen. A seat and a shelf for everyone under the roof, refilled with ink every Monday.
A cheaper price and a bigger pen. More ink every Monday, locked for good.
Every plan includes the whole cast, pets, narration, the share link and re-reading. Prices exclude sales tax, which is added when you pay, where it applies.
Full pricingThe founding circle
Anyone can start free today. Founding is the smaller circle inside that: leave your email and you go on the list, in order. When a seat opens we send an invitation. It carries the founding rate and a bigger pen, both locked for good. That is the only thing we will write to you about.
Colophon Pearland, Texas
TuckABook is made by Udi in Pearland, a software builder and storyteller who wanted the people he loves in the pictures. It began with his kids. It is the tool he needed to finish the stories he carries. Made by Eidetic LLC. About