A 12 Days of Christmas Book
Starring Your Child

Order the hardcover book by Friday, December 4 for delivery before Christmas in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and India. The PDF arrives instantly, so it works right up to Christmas Eve, and it comes free with every hardcover.

Children roughly 1 to 9. The language is simple enough to read aloud to a toddler, and the countdown holds the attention of an older child who can read it themselves. It is made to be read through December, a day at a time.

Your child's name, age and gender, one photo, the cover theme and the illustration style. For the full book you choose the kinds of days the countdown is made of, their favourite activities and favourite toy, a favourite memory, how your home looks at Christmas, one December tradition your family keeps, who the book is from and a dedication. Anything you leave blank is left out — the book will not invent a tradition your family does not have.

Your child is drawn from the photo you upload, so the character is created to resemble them rather than being a generic figure with a name attached. A clear, well-lit photo with no hat or sunglasses gives the best result. You see the pages before you pay, and you can redraw an illustration or swap the photo if it is not right.

Only the people you tag in your photo are ever illustrated. A photo of your child alone makes a book about just them; tag family in the same photo if you would like them drawn too. Anyone you mention in your answers but do not tag is named in the story text, not drawn.

Only if your answers bring him in. This is a book about your family's December days rather than a trip to the North Pole — for that, we make the Merry Christmas Adventure Book separately.

Yes — many are ordered by grandparents. Upload a photo with you and your grandchild together and tag who's who; everyone you tag is illustrated in the book. You can preview the whole book free, then write your own dedication before you order.

Waiting is the hardest part of Christmas for a young child. A book with twelve days in it gives the waiting a shape: one day each night, the countdown moving forward, Christmas arriving at the end. Preview it free, then choose a PDF for $14.99 or a hardcover for $49.99.

Most personalized books drop a name into a fixed story. Here you choose the kinds of days the countdown is made of — cozy days at home, acts of kindness, baking, snow, crafts, visits — and your child's favourite activities become the days themselves. The illustrations are generated from your photo rather than stamped onto a stock character.

This one covers a whole December, day by day. The Merry Christmas Adventure Book is a single-night adventure where your child rides a magical Christmas train, helps the elves or flies with a little reindeer, and the Night Before Christmas book is one Christmas Eve at bedtime. Some families read the countdown through December and save a different book for Christmas Eve itself.

Most families don't, and the book never invents any. You pick the kinds of days you'd like and name what your child loves, and those become the twelve days. Anything you leave blank is simply left out.

Something that lasts the whole of December rather than one morning. A personalized 12 Days of Christmas book gives you a page to read each night, with your child as the one living each day.

Enter your child's name and age, upload one clear photo, and choose a theme and an illustration style such as watercolor, cartoon, or Pixar-inspired. Preview it free, pick the kinds of days you want for the full book, edit anything, and only pay when you love it.

Creating and previewing your book is completely free — no account and no card needed. You read the whole book, page by page, and only pay if you want to keep it. A premium hardcover is $49.99 and the instant digital PDF is $14.99. Standard shipping is included in the hardcover price — the price you see is the total you pay. There is no subscription, and the version you approve is the version we print.

Printing takes 4–5 business days, then the book ships. Orders to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India typically arrive in 8–12 business days from the day you order. For other destinations the estimate for your address is shown at checkout. The digital PDF has no printing or shipping wait — it is delivered electronically shortly after purchase, which is the one to choose for a last-minute gift.

The hardcover is approximately 8.5 × 8.5 inches, printed on premium matte paper and bound as a keepsake meant to survive being read at bedtime for years.

They are used only to illustrate your book. We do not sell them, we do not show them to anyone else, and we never use them to train AI models. Photos uploaded before you create an account are deleted automatically within 7 days. Once you have an account, uploads are held with your book so you can come back and finish it or order a reprint, and deleting your account deletes them. Email hello@celebrateally.com at any time and we will remove them sooner.

Email hello@celebrateally.com with your order number and we will sort it out. Cancelling: if your book has not entered production yet we will cancel it and refund you in full. Once it is at the printer we may not be able to stop it, but always ask and we will check. Damaged or misprinted: tell us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we will reprint it free or refund you. You do not return the damaged book. Never arrived: if 30 days have passed since you ordered, choose a free reprint or a full refund — your call, no questions asked. Not happy with it: because you approve the finished book before paying, a printed book cannot usually be returned over a change of mind. But if the personalization or illustrations disappoint you, contact us within 30 days of delivery and tell us what to improve — we will correct it and send a replacement free, and if we cannot make it right we will refund you in full. You keep the original book either way.

Yes. You can order several copies of the same book — useful when grandparents want one too — and you can create as many different books as you like from one account. Each book is priced individually at $49.99 for a hardcover or $14.99 for a PDF, and each one is previewed and approved separately.