Personalised storybooks set in Africa. Your child. Their face. Their name. Their adventure. 🇬🇭🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
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When I started, all I hoped for was a story Aseye would love.
Now it’s being read to Dom, and to children I haven’t met yet, in homes all over the world. I’m still not used to this feeling; I hope I never am!
Thank you, Efo 💛
I got this personalised book from @GliBooks for my son. He loves it when we are reading and his name pops up.
Families come home from Ghana with kente, carved animals, a drum nobody plays and a phone full of photos nobody prints. A four-year-old will remember little of the trip. What they keep is the story you tell them about it afterwards.
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Siblings can each have their own book, each the hero of their own story, in one parcel with one delivery charge. Twins too: use a separate photo of each child. glibooks.com/blog/personalis…
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Buy a personalised book for one child and you’ll hear about it from the other. “Why is it her name on the cover?” has no good answer at bedtime.
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Choosing a personalised book for a first birthday? Check the baby is drawn at a baby’s height, not stretched to a school child’s, and pick one that will still read well at four. glibooks.com/blog/personalis…
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High above a rainforest in Ghana, there’s a bridge made of rope and wood. In our story, your child is the one who crosses it.
The Bridge in the Sky is a personalised storybook with your child’s name in the story and their face in the pictures.
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A one-year-old won’t follow a story. They will stare at faces, listen to a voice they know, and one day point at a picture and say their own name.
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The strongest case for a book at Christmas is as the second gift. Let the loud thing be the loud thing. The book is what’s still there in February. Which occasions suit a book, and what to write inside: glibooks.com/blog/occasions-…
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For a child with one Ghanaian parent, a book set in Ghana can be the first one where Ghana is somewhere they are, rather than somewhere a parent is from. glibooks.com/blog/personalis…
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Character builders offer skin tone as a row of steps. For a lot of mixed-heritage children, one step is too dark, the next is too light, and neither is quite their colour.
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Before you buy a personalised book, check your child’s actual hairstyle is there, not just something near it, and that it keeps its shape from the side. What else to check, and how to choose the photo: glibooks.com/blog/personalis…
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When a personalised book gets a Black child wrong, it’s often the hair. A generic “curly”. An afro on a child who’s had a low cut since birth. Two puffs on a child who wears four. Children notice their own hair first, and so does every grandmother.
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Taking a child across the Kakum canopy walkway? Tell them it will wobble. A child who was promised it wouldn’t now doubts everything else you said. More on preparing them, from going early to letting them set the pace: glibooks.com/blog/kakum-cano…
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Nobody crosses the canopy walkway at Kakum because it stopped being frightening. They cross it while it’s still frightening. That’s the child in The Bridge in the Sky.
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Black History Month with under-sixes: start somewhere joyful. Kakum is an easy drive from Cape Coast, whose castle holds a history they’ll learn when older. Belonging first, so the harder story lands on ground that already feels like theirs. glibooks.com/blog/black-hist…
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