Your Pet and the Ten Missing Acorns

Your pet is the star of every picture.

The cover

Personalize [Your Pet’s Name] and the Ten Missing Acorns: a pale-blue investigating pet silhouette with a dark navy dashed outline and the words “Your pic goes here” stands above ten empty acorn-shaped impressions beside an alarmed red squirrel.

Your pet goes here, with their name on the cover.

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Likeness guarantee: we repaint it or refund you.

Their photo. Their cover.

A customer sent us this photo of Oliver. We made this cover from it.

Oliver, a Boston terrier with a white blaze down his face and a blue collar, lying on a rug and looking up at the camera — the photo his owner sent.
Photo
Goodnight, Oliver: the same Boston terrier painted lying on his side in a plush bed beneath the title lettering, ears up, dark eyes to the reader and a happy open smile — the same white blaze, the same blue collar — one paw over a teddy with a bow in a lamplit bedroom.
Cover

“OMG, it’s so cute! It captures Oliver’s little snaggle tooth perfectly — it looks exactly like him.”

Amanda G., Escalon, CA, Oliver’s owner

A real person checks every picture against your photo before it prints. If a picture looks off, we paint it again.

The likeness guarantee. If the book that arrives still is not them, we repaint it or refund you.

Example

Example pages

Painted from photos of our sample pets. Your book stars your pet.

What you get

The book
40 pages, 8.5-inch square hardcover. Your pet is the star of every picture.
Who it’s for
Ages 3–7 · and any grown-up who reads it to the dog
Art style
Painted Storybook
Your note
A page at the front with a note in your own words. We print it just as you type it.
Delivery
Printed just for you. Estimated to arrive Mon, Nov 9–Thu, Nov 12 — before Christmas — for most U.S. addresses, with free shipping. Faster from $9.99. The date shown for your address before you pay is the one that counts.
Replaced if it arrives damaged
Tell us right away and send photos. We send a new one for free. How it works

The story

Ten acorns. Six suspects. One very good detective.

Ten acorns, counted and safe in a row. And then, one morning — none. Twitch the squirrel comes through the hedge gap like a small orange firework, Gus the goose declares an Investigation (rule one: he’s in charge), Pockets the magpie has a Plan, and everybody has a suspect. The only one anyone actually trusts is your pet — asleep on the back step, and of the firm opinion that some things matter more than a nap. Not many. But some. What follows is a proper counting mystery: acorns turn up one by one in puddles and pockets and snug little hiding places, an accusation goes wrong and has to be put right, and the tenth acorn turns out to have been busy becoming something better than lost. A whodunit where the answer isn’t a robber at all — and where your own pet is the level head that solves it.

Who it’s for: For ages 3–7 — a child who can follow a mystery and count along with it. It is one of our full 40-page stories, sized for a proper sit-down read rather than a quick one before bed.

Questions

How is this different from the other books?

It’s one of our full forty-page stories, with a recurring cast and an actual mystery to solve. Your pet isn’t just the hero; it’s the detective the whole lane turns to.

Will my child follow it?

The mystery is built on counting to ten, so a three-year-old can track it on their fingers while a six-year-old works out where the acorns went. Gus’s pompous big words are the joke older kids get.

What kind of pet does the detective need to be?

An animal that can plausibly rest on a back step and move around a garden, a dry country lane, a puddle edge and the roots of an old oak under its own power. The lane’s recurring characters are drawn from reference sheets so they stay recognizable; your pet is painted from your photo.

What do I get for $69.99?

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.

Can I see more than the cover first?

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.

What makes a good photo?

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.

Is the art made with AI?

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.

What happens to my photo?

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.

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