🐶 Dogs, cats & every other pet

Books starring your dog, your cat, your anybody

Every book on this page is made from one photo of your own animal. Not a breed template with a name dropped in — your pet, with the markings, colorings, and expressions that make them recognizable, painted into every picture of a personalized 8.5-inch square hardcover.

Front cover of The Great Adventure of Lucy: Lucy, a golden retriever, walks along a winding path out of tall blue-green woods toward a golden pond, glancing back at a yellow duckling following close behind.

The Great Adventure of Lucy

Their big, brave daytime quest.

Ages 2–6

BirthdayJust because
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Front cover of Lucy and the Birthday Star: Lucy, a golden retriever, lies in the grass at a dusk pond looking closely at tiny Dot the snail; an unlit white cake sits behind them beneath one star and its reflection, with the cream title above.

Lucy and the Birthday Star

Cake at sundown, and one guest still on her way.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Goodnight, Lucy: Lucy, a golden retriever, sleeps curled in a plush cream bed beneath large blue title lettering, her cheek and front paw cuddled against a brown teddy with a blue bow in a warm moonlit bedroom.

Goodnight, Lucy

Every goodnight in the garden, and the last one saved for them.

A bedtime story for every age

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Front cover of The Christmas Light of Lucy: Lucy, a golden retriever, presses a path through deep blue snow on a lantern-lit village lane, glancing back at one small brown leveret following in her trail.

The Christmas Light of Lucy

Out into the snow, for someone smaller.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

Christmas
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Front cover of Lucy Did NOT Steal Christmas: Lucy, a golden retriever with a loose red bow, steps across a patterned rug while following a red ribbon into the hall; empty stocking hooks, a bare tree base and a crumb plate sit behind her.

Lucy Did NOT Steal Christmas

One innocent pet. One suspicious Christmas.

A Christmas story for every age · 40 pages

Christmas
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Front cover of Lucy’s Brave First Day: a golden retriever pauses at the edge of cool fern shade with one front paw in the bright meadow, a tiny hedgehog beside her, both looking toward the great oak ahead.

Lucy’s Brave First Day

A first-day-of-school story, for the morning they do not want to go.

Ages 2–6

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Front cover of Welcome Home, Lucy: adult golden retriever Lucy stands at her natural size with one wet front paw beside a tipped pale-blue water bowl, looking sheepishly toward elderly long-haired grey Pearl on the first stair.

Welcome Home, Lucy

Their first day home: everything wrong, and one thing right.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and Someone Small: Lucy, an adult golden retriever, sits alert on a round oatmeal rug at the foot of a tall honey-wood crib in a sage-green nursery, facing the reader, a tiny knitted sock beside one paw, in late golden light.

Lucy and Someone Small

The day someone small came home, and the one who kept the quiet.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and the Door That Opened: Lucy, a golden retriever, stands inside a warm hall and looks patiently through the wide-open yellow door at a hesitant cream kitten still outside in the blue evening.

Lucy and the Door That Opened

This year, they hold the door.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and the Ten Missing Acorns: Lucy, a golden retriever, lowers her nose to ten empty acorn-shaped impressions beneath an oak root while a red squirrel gestures in alarm.

Lucy and the Ten Missing Acorns

Ten acorns. Six suspects. One very good detective.

Ages 3–7 · 40 pages

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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.

The Little Things Lucy Does

The small things only you would notice.

A pet keepsake for grown-ups and ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and Galileo Look Up: a golden retriever stands on a cream-stone rooftop at night, her face just lifted from a red-brown spyglass toward the reader, with a huge cratered Moon, a dark lantern, and a striped sock tip behind a chimney.

Lucy and Galileo Look Up

A bumpy Moon, four moons round Jupiter, and a sock nobody can find.

Ages 3–7 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside a flowerpot, a speckled white pebble and two blunt pieces of a crooked twig by a blue kitchen door.

Lucy and the Almost-Perfect Present

For the person who always plays once more.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and the Dinosaur’s Small Problem: golden retriever Lucy turns toward the reader beside a low fern-framed root arch while a friendly apricot long-necked dinosaur lowers its cream-throated face toward her.

Lucy and the Dinosaur’s Small Problem

A very big friend. A very small game. Room for another turn.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader from a blue cushion in a cream room with plain moving boxes, an ochre rug and a blue kitchen arch.

Moving Day for Lucy

All the familiar things. One very different place.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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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.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and the Little Red Cart: golden retriever Lucy faces the reader beside a low red cart carrying a blue cushion, with a cream-marked brown-and-olive tortoise at the top of a shallow wooden ramp.

Lucy and the Little Red Cart

One little bump. One patient friend. A very useful set of wheels.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside a low wooden tapping board on a copper-roofed porch, with gentle rain over the green garden behind her.

Lucy and the Rainy-Day Band

A wet afternoon. A very good band.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside a low sandcastle with broad open doorways, a white shell and a pink petal on a dry beach below grassy dunes.

Lucy and the Sandcastle Door

A little door changes the whole castle.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside a rooted yellow sunflower, a cream back step and a shallow saucer with a flat piece of cork bark.

Lucy and the Little Green Wait

A little seed has its own idea of soon.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Lucy, a golden retriever, faces the reader beside an uncarved orange pumpkin and a basket of golden leaves in warm porch light, with soft ordinary shadows on a cream wall.

Lucy and the Not-So-Spooky Night

A little curiosity. A very warm welcome.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Front cover of Lucy and the Easter Mix-Up: golden retriever Lucy faces the reader beside broad white-striped blue, white-spotted pink and yellow paper egg shapes, with a cream hen and a low sunlit garden step behind.

Lucy and the Easter Mix-Up

Stripes, spots, and an Easter picture big enough to share.

Ages 2–6 · 40 pages

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, landing with both front paws on a spacecraft hull, violet light streaming behind her amid immense planetary rings.

Lucy: The Last Orbit

A bright dash into the rings. A brave way home.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, bounding past a small ground nest as a stone-armored bull charges behind her through a sunset canyon; a lizard waits beside a turquoise mirror.

Lucy: Giant at Sundown

A mountain-sized rescue before sundown.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

BirthdayGotcha day
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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, swimming through a turquoise circular current beneath a clear breathing veil, with a blue ray and a nautilus among pearl reef towers.

Lucy: The Current King

Turn the current. Free the reef.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

BirthdayGotcha day
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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, climbing a yellow folded walkway between cobalt walls, beside a blue beetle and a coral folded-card companion, while a crane watches from the left.

Lucy: The Folding Fortress

Hold the fold. Trust the friends.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, racing up an icy bank with a snow leopard pursuing behind her and a white fox waiting on red rock above.

Lucy: Whiteout Run

The fastest route is the trap.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, climbing an immense stone guardian’s sloping forearm, with paws stepping uphill above ochre terraces beneath a crowned giant face.

Lucy: The Sunstone Giants

Small enough to see what the giants missed.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, wearing a burgundy cape and advancing along a dark rooftop beside a large dog-shaped shadow on a lamp-lit wall; a magpie holds a prism above and an owl flies overhead.

Lucy: The False Shadow

A stolen prism. A shadow that lies.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, bracing on a wooden skyship gallery and barking visible rings from her open mouth toward a cream sail, with flagless ships and tropical islands behind.

Lucy: The Silent Sky Fleet

A silent deck. A signal the pirates missed.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, stepping across a luminous green root bridge surrounded by huge curling vines and coral-red thorns, above a jungle of waterfalls.

Lucy: Thornheart

The rescue route has become the trap.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Example cover with our sample dog Lucy, a golden retriever, planting paws on a broad alpine ledge and bracing her shoulder against an ochre boulder, while a marmot signals across the gap and a slide moves in the distant valley.

Lucy: The Mountain Breaks

Paws planted. A valley behind them.

For kids ages 6–9 who love action comics

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Front cover of Thank You, Lucy: a golden retriever stands on a round brick-red rug, looking at the reader with an open-mouthed smile, a soft blue toy elephant at her front paws and the arm of a moss-green armchair at the left, under deep red title lettering on a warm cream wall.

Thank You, Lucy

In loving memory: one ordinary day, and every thank-you they earned.

A keepsake for grown-ups · 40 pages

In loving memory
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The photo does the heavy lifting

One good photo is all we need: the whole animal or its face plainly visible, in focus, and well-lit. Daylight beats lamplight, eye-level beats top-down, and close beats far away. The photo you'd make your phone background is usually the right one.

If we can't use the photo, we tell you the moment you upload it — before you pay for anything — and a person looks again before it prints. Photo reviewed the same or next business day — before printing.

Dogs, cats — and the rest

Dogs and cats give the most reliable likenesses, and they are most of the pets we paint. But the stories were written for any animal somebody keeps: rabbits, birds, guinea pigs, horses, lizards — any animal that can be painted on a lawn and in a bed.

The bedtime story asks nothing of its hero but a good night's sleep, which makes it the natural home for small and home-bound pets; the adventure suits any animal you can picture crossing a stream. An animal that lives only in water is the one neither story can place. Each book's own page says who it is written for, and the comparison table on the full list of stories puts the ages, lengths and occasions side by side.