A life with them, held in one story

A pet keepsake book made for the years you are living now

A pet keepsake book can be made at any time, and these are written for the animal who is on the next cushion now — the one who will ignore the reading with complete confidence.

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The Little Things Lucy Does

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A beloved golden retriever resting near a shelf of family keepsakes in warm afternoon light, painted with tactile watercolor texture. — Storybook concept art. Your finished book is painted from your own pet’s photo.

Front cover of The Little Things Lucy Does: Lucy, a golden retriever, walks side-on through golden leaves with a red wool glove held gently in her mouth, looking back toward a park bench and one calm grey pigeon.

Why this title

Choose a story with enough room to become an heirloom

The Little Things Your Pet Does is the catalog’s keepsake proper: forty pages of one ordinary walk, made of the habits only the person on the other end of it would notice, with one small rescue at the centre. It keeps the animal a character rather than a symbol, which is what makes it survive rereading.

40 pages
A pet keepsake for grown-ups and ages 2–6
About 7 min aloud
8.5-inch square hardcover

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Made to mean something

A keepsake that stays alive on the page

The animal gets to do things

A story preserves curiosity, patience, bravery, and the way a pet changes a room — qualities a static label cannot hold on its own.

The real photograph remains the anchor

The illustration can travel into a storybook world while the pet’s visible traits keep every scene connected to the life at home.

The giver adds the historical note

Names, dates, nicknames, and one true sentence belong in the dedication, where they can be read without loading the child-facing plot with biography.

The giving moment

Celebrate companionship in the present tense

The stories on this page are written in the present tense, for the animal who is part of the family now, and they make something durable from that attention. A pet who has died has a book of their own in the catalog, marked “In loving memory”; it is a different book, written for that.

For a birthday, adoption anniversary, holiday, or ordinary season, the keepsake value comes from specificity: the right face, the right name, and a story the household will associate with this chapter of life.

One photo starts the process. Photo reviewed the same or next business day — before printing.

Before you choose

Questions about this gift

What if my pet has died?

We’re sorry. There is one book here written for exactly that — look for “In loving memory” on the books page. It paints your pet alive and well in every picture; only the words are in the past tense. The keepsake stories on this page are for a living relationship.

Can I include important dates?

Yes. The dedication can hold a birthday, gotcha day, or gift date in the buyer’s own words. The main story stays evergreen so it remains natural to reread later.

What makes this different from a pet photo album?

A photo album documents moments that happened. This book uses one real photograph to cast the pet as the active hero of a professionally authored illustrated story.

Lucy and the Ten Missing Acorns

Ten acorns. Six suspects. One very good detective.

For ages 3–7 — a child who can follow a mystery and count along with it.

Ages 3–7 · 40 pages

Just becauseBirthday

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside a shallow stone basin and a curled yellow leaf, with a birch tree and rounded hill behind her.

Lucy and the Faraway Hello

One little boat. A very long way to say hello.

For ages two to six, especially families sharing a book across different homes, grandparents living elsewhere, or a child whose friend has moved away.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

Long-distance loveJust because

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