Your Pet and the Birthday Star

In the story it is your pet’s birthday — one party, one cake, one wish. Given for a child’s birthday it works just as well: the child’s own animal is the one with the party, and the dedication page is yours to write, so the happy birthday can be theirs. And because the day it tells is about waiting for the smallest friend, it reads on any evening of the year, not only the one with the cake.

Everything the hero does: keeps the wish, makes the biggest splash, carries a strawberry down the lawn, walks away from the cake to sit with the snail, sends for the whole party, and gives the wish away on the first star. Every scene is painted from your photo, with the markings and coloring that make your animal recognizable carried through all of it.

Yes. Every scene is written so any animal that can spend a summer day on a lawn can play it — the splash, the strawberry, the sitting in the grass beside a snail. A dog leaps into the shallows; a cat slaps the water once, outraged; a rabbit stamps a foot at the edge. The book is the same book, and the hero is whichever animal is yours. A fish, or any pet that cannot spend a summer afternoon out on the grass, cannot star in this one; a tortoise, a hen, or a lizard that comes out onto the lawn can.

Every book is made to order and takes about two weeks door to door, so order about three weeks before the day. If the birthday is closer than that, the faster shipping offered at checkout can still make it, and the arrival date shown there for your address is the one that counts.

A 40-page 8.5-inch square hardcover, printed just for you. Your pet is the star of every picture, and their name is on the cover. A page at the front has a note in your own words. A real person checks the book before it prints. Shipping in the U.S. is free. If it arrives damaged, we send a new one for free.

Yes, one page. After the cover, you can see one page from inside the book with your pet in it, free. We paint the rest after you order. A real person checks every picture against your photo before it prints.

One pet, facing the camera, in good light. Daylight near a window is best. The face, colors and markings should be sharp. Skip heavy shadows, busy backgrounds and photos with two pets. A phone photo is fine.

Yes. We make the pictures with AI from the photo you send. They are not painted by hand. A real person on our team checks every book before it prints.

We keep it, with what you typed and the art we made. That way we can reprint your book if something goes wrong, and make your next book without a new photo. To have it deleted, email support@illustratedyou.com, or ask us to close your account. No public gallery. No ads without asking you first. We don’t train AI on your photos, and we set up the AI services we use so they don’t train their general AI models on them either.