Your family holiday — turned into a storybook they'll read for years
A personalised illustrated adventure starring your children — their real faces, your real destinations, the moments that made the trip unforgettable. Created in minutes. Free to start.
Create your family vacation story free
Why a storybook is the best souvenir you'll ever bring home
- To create a full illustrated story
- 5 min
- Illustration styles to choose from
- 10+
- Languages supported
- 100+
- First story, no card needed
- Free
The best souvenir isn't something you buy in a gift shop
Every family comes home from holiday with photos on a phone, a fridge magnet, and a vague promise to put it all in an album one day. And somehow the album never happens, the photos stay on the phone, and the specific feeling of that trip — the excitement your child felt seeing the ocean for the first time, the afternoon they got completely lost and it turned into the best part of the whole trip — starts to fade.
A personalised storybook turns those moments into something that doesn't fade. A fully illustrated adventure starring your children — their real faces as the heroes, your real destination as the setting, the specific things that happened woven into the narrative — that sits on the shelf and gets read again and again.
Not a photo book. Not a travel journal. A story. The kind children ask to hear over and over, because it's about them, and what happened to them, on the trip they took together.
Your children's real faces — as the heroes of the adventure
Most travel-themed children's books feature someone else's family in someone else's destination. LuluStories puts your children in the story.
Upload a photo of your child and AI transforms their actual face into a consistent illustrated character who appears throughout the entire book — the same features, the same likeness, from the first page to the last. Set the story in Paris, the mountains, the beach, a safari, a city they've never been to before — and they are the hero exploring it.
The result is a book that is unmistakably about this family, this trip, these children. Something no gift shop, no photo service, and no generic travel keepsake can produce.
Perfect for every kind of family adventure
Beach holidays
Sun, sea, and a story starring your children as the explorers of an underwater world or a treasure hunt along the shore. The warmth of the holiday captured in every illustrated page.
City breaks
Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, New York — whatever city you explored together becomes the setting for your child's illustrated adventure. Landmarks, food, discoveries all woven into the story.
Mountain and nature trips
A hiking adventure, a forest discovery, a snowy ski trip — nature destinations make for the most magical illustrated storybook settings. Wildlife, landscapes, and your children at the centre of it all.
Road trips
The stops, the songs, the unexpected detours — a road trip has a natural story arc. Turn the whole journey into a chapter-by-chapter adventure with your children as the heroes of every mile.
Family visits abroad
Visiting grandparents or family in another country? A storybook set in that place — the language, the food, the family — is one of the most meaningful ways to help children connect with their roots.
Staycations and local adventures
You don't need to travel far for a great story. A day at the park, a local museum visit, a camping trip in the garden — any adventure becomes extraordinary when your child is the illustrated hero of it.
Create your family vacation storybook in 4 steps
- 1
Upload a photo
A clear phone photo of your child's face is all you need. LuluStories transforms it into a consistent illustrated character on every page of the story. You can add multiple children as characters too.
- 2
Add your holiday
Tell us where you went, what you did, and what made the trip special. The destination, the highlights, a funny moment, the thing your child talks about most. The more specific the details, the more the story feels like yours.
- 3
Choose an illustration style
Pick from Watercolour, Cinematic 3D, Studio Ghibli-inspired, Anime, Cartoon, and more. Cinematic 3D and Studio Ghibli work beautifully for adventure stories. Watercolour gives a warm, timeless travel journal feel.
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Read together or print
The full illustrated story is ready in minutes. Read it together on the flight home, share it digitally with family, or order a premium printed hardcover — the ultimate holiday keepsake that sits on the shelf for years.
What families say
“We made a storybook about our trip to Japan on the flight home. My son read it every night for a month. He still talks about that trip as the greatest adventure of his life and I think the book is a big part of why it stayed so vivid for him.”
“I made one for my daughter after our first beach holiday together. She was three. She's five now and still asks for her "beach story" at bedtime. It captured something about that trip that no photo could.”
“We gave a family vacation storybook to the grandparents after we visited them in Italy. They cried. They said seeing the grandchildren illustrated as heroes of an Italian adventure was the most beautiful thing anyone had ever made for them.”
Before the trip, during, or after — it works any way
Most families create their vacation storybook after they return — using the real details of what happened to build the most authentic story possible. But LuluStories works equally well in all three moments.
Before the trip, a personalised story set in the destination you're heading to can build genuine excitement — and help younger children who feel anxious about travel feel prepared for the adventure ahead.
During the trip, you can note down the moments as they happen and create the storybook on the last evening — reading it together before you go home as a celebration of what you experienced.
After the trip, it becomes a keepsake — the most vivid and personal record of a shared adventure, far more engaging than a photo album and far more treasured than a fridge magnet.
Whenever you create it, the result is the same: a book that keeps the holiday alive long after the tan has faded.
Frequently asked questions
Bring your family adventure home in a story
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