If you are looking for an original gift (for a book lover) a personalized book might be an idea. There are several websites which provide this service. Usually you can choose a book of your liking. You can then choose one or more names that you want to have featured in this book. Below you will find a small selection of websites that provides this type of book. If you have any books or experience with personal books to add, please do so in the comments.
A2Z Personalized Children’s Books
You can choose out of 150 books for children. There are also some titles available for adults. All the books are hardcover and it will cost between twelve and fifteen dollars to have a book made.
This website sells ‘personalized stories for children’. The fun part is that the illustrations are also personalized to look like the child.
This company has only one book on offer, but it adds first, middle and last names to the book. Most other personalized books only have first names.
Here you can pick from a variety of themed books for babies, children and adults. The books can have the name, age, home town and other names printed in the story.
A Dutch website that has a choice of books in different themes. You can also choose children’s books and books by The Netherlands most popular crime writer, Appie Baantjer. It is also possible to pick by price.
I just gave my 4 1/2 year old son the “Here There Be Pirates” book from http://www.flattenme.com. He loves it, though I groan over the story line. The best part, though, is that the book is personalized with both his name and his photo. His face is Photoshopped onto the body of the main character. The effect works surprisingly well.
Printakid. I had to give birth to get mine.
sorry…but my mind blinked when I saw that.
There’s another one Customized Classics at http://www.customizedclassics.com
Their stuff is for older age groups, they have classic books Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland etc. I have a Romeo and Juliet one with a photo on the cover