The Christmas Light of Your Pet

No. It is a traditional secular storybook Christmas: snow on a village lane, lanterns lit at dusk, plain wreaths on the doors, and a fire and tree at home. There is no Santa, nativity, or present-giving. It is a story about a warm window given up, and a cold walk that turns out to be worth it.

Your pet is never lost — the hare is, and your pet is the one who takes it home. The snow falls softly and nothing chases anyone. The one dim stretch is three pages as the light goes blue, where the tracks run out at the old bridge and your pet chooses to stay and shelter the hare instead of going home; on the very next page the first lantern lights, and the lane is gold from there to the end.

Every book is made to order and takes about two weeks door to door, so order about three weeks before Christmas Eve, and earlier if you can. After 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.

Yes. The hare is drawn as a hare — brown, with black tips to its ears and no white tail — so your rabbit is never mistaken for it on any page. The story needs an animal that can spend a winter evening out in soft snow under its own power; walking, hopping, trotting, or flying all count. A fish, or any pet that lives in a tank and cannot be out in the cold for an evening, cannot star in this one.

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.