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A story workshop for families

You decide what happens. We set it in print.

Sit down with your child and write a book, a chapter at a time. They say what happens next. Taleium writes it, in the right words for their age, and reads it back to you at bedtime.

Free for your first story. No card, and nothing expires.

Three things, in order

  1. Start the book

    A title, and who it is for. The cover draws itself while you think of the first line.

  2. Say what happens

    Type the idea, or pick one of three. Whatever the child says, in their words.

  3. Read it together

    A chapter arrives in seconds. Read it aloud, then decide what happens after that.

The longer version

Written for the child in the room

A story for a four year old and a story for an eleven year old are not the same story told longer. Pick the age when you start a book and every chapter after that is written to it: sentence length, vocabulary, how much happens, how much is explained.

Ages 3-5Ages 6-8Ages 9-12

A cast who come back

Make a character once, say what they look like and what they are like, and they are drawn once and turn up in every story you put them in, looking and behaving the same. Children notice when they do not.

How characters work

The child is the author. Always.

If you ask it to, Taleium will offer three ways the story could go. It never picks one, never finishes a story you have not finished, and never writes a chapter nobody asked for. Choosing is the job it hands back to you, every chapter, because a child who watched a machine write a story has not written a story.

How we handle all this

What it costs

Free

£0

For ever, not for a fortnight.

  • One story, 3 chapters
  • All three age ranges
  • Read aloud, at four speeds
  • A cover drawn for your story
  • Share by link, or publish
  • No card, and no expiry
Start a story

Premium

£4.99 a month

Cancel in two clicks. Your stories stay either way.

  • Unlimited stories and chapters
  • Characters you make once and reuse
  • Eight kinds of story to write in
  • A printable book of anything you write
  • Everything in the free plan
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The details

What happens in the first chapter?

Ask them. Whatever they say, that is the book. It takes about a minute to find out.

Start writing, free