Their FirstCommunion book

A personalized keepsake gift of the day: getting ready, the church, the people who love them and the celebration after, drawn from your photos.

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Ordering opens soon. Make it now and see your characters, the cover and two pages free: no card needed, just an email to save it.

A keepsake from parents, godparents or grandparents
Printed in the USA, delivery included

A girl in her white First Communion dress reading her picture book with her godmother on a garden bench

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Make the book now and see it free. Leave your email and we write once, on the day ordering opens for My First Holy Communion.

How it works

Tell us about the day

The child’s name, one to three photos, their church and who will be there: godparents, grandparents, cousins.
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We draw the child, the cover and two pages while you wait. Not quite them? Say what to change.
Order, check, give

Pay when you love it. We draw the rest and email you the finished book: change any page, or say yes.

You pay nothing until you have seen them. See your characters, the cover and two pages free before you pay. Then you check every page: if we haven’t heard from you within 12 hours of our email, we print it as shown so it arrives on time.

What’s inside the 32 pages

The coverTheir name and their First Communion in the title.
A title pageThe title of your book, on a page of its own.
Your dedicationYour own words, printed on their own page.
Meet the crewA portrait of everyone in the book, pets included, with their names.
The story13 scenes, each a page of text facing a full-page picture: getting ready, preparing with the family, everyone gathering, arriving at the church, the quiet special moment, the celebration afterwards and an evening full of pride. Someone dear who can’t be there can be remembered in the words.
A closing letterA letter for their day, to end the book.
A keepsake pageA printed frame to stick in a photograph of your own.
The last pageWho the book was made for, by whom and when.

Hardback, 32 pages on thick silk paper, with a printed, matte-laminated cover in the color of the occasion. You check every page before we print.

Three pages from the day

Every book tells one child’s day, with their own church, family and celebration. These sample pages are drawn in the Storybook style.

Storybook illustration of a girl in a white dress twirling in the hallway while her mom fixes her hair — Getting ready, with the people at home.

Storybook illustration of children in white walking up the aisle of a bright church — The church, told gently and simply.

Storybook illustration of a family celebration in a garden with a white cake — The celebration after, with everyone who came.

A child’s hands turning the pages of a First Communion picture book beside a white rosary and flowers

A keepsake for the day

The dress or the suit, the walk up the aisle, the family lunch after: the details fade, and the book keeps them.

The book on the table after the service, beside the rosary and the flowers.

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From godparents, a gift to keep

Godparents are often looking for a First Communion gift more personal than a card or a medal for their goddaughter or godson. This is a book with the child at the center and you in it beside them, to be kept long after the dress no longer fits.

Parents make it as the family keepsake of the day, and grandparents add a copy for their house. Every book can carry your own dedication or blessing on its own page.

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A boy in a white shirt and waistcoat looking at his First Communion book between his grandparents — The family lunch, with the book going round the table.

Two cousins in their First Communion clothes looking at their picture book with their godfather outside church

For girls and for boys

White dress and veil, or shirt, vest and boutonniere: tell us what they will wear and it is in the pictures. Add their church, the date and the celebration after, and the story is theirs.

If someone dear can’t be there, the story can remember them gently.

Outside church, the cousins find themselves in the book.

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Twelve ways to draw it

Our picks for a First Communion: Storybook, Watercolour and 3D animation. Warm and gentle: every style works for every book.

See every style side by side

Classic square: 20 × 20 cm · 8 × 8 in · easy for little hands; $49
Wide landscape: 28 × 21 cm · 11 × 8.3 in · big scenes across both pages; $55
Large square: 28 × 28 cm · 11 × 11 in · the coffee-table keepsake; $62
Every extra copy: any size, from the mini book at $17; sent to another address for $5 more; from $17

Ordering opens soon

You can make the book today and see your characters, the cover and two pages free. Ordering for My First Holy Communion isn’t open yet: leave your email and we’ll write the day it opens.

See it before you pay. Your characters, the cover and two pages are free, and we redraw what isn’t right (three redraws per person before you order).
You check every page. We email you the finished book: change any page, or say yes. If we haven’t heard from you within 12 hours, we print it as shown so it arrives on time.
Cancel before we print. Not happy with the finished pages? Cancel before we print and get a full refund.
Free reprint. If it arrives damaged or with a mistake we made, we print it again, free.
Printed close to home. In the USA, with no customs fees, mailed with tracked delivery.

Questions, answered

When can I order?

Ordering for My First Holy Communion opens soon. You can make the book now and see your characters, the cover and two pages free; leave your email and we will write the day it opens.

Is it right for a Catholic First Communion?

Yes. The book tells the day with care: the preparation, the church and the celebration, in the words you choose. You can add your own dedication or blessing.

Can godparents order it?

Yes, and it makes a lovely godparent gift. Godparents can be in the pictures beside the child.

Can we remember someone who has died?

Yes. Tell us their name and who they were, and the story remembers them in its words.

Do I need photos?

No. One to three photos of each person give the best likeness, or build them in the character maker. Photos of children need a parent or guardian’s permission.

What if the child doesn’t look right?

You see them, the cover and two pages free before you order. Tell us what to change and we redraw it. You check every page before we print, with 12 hours to ask for changes.

Can we make it after the day?

Yes, and use the photos from the day, so the dress or the suit is exactly right.

What happens to the photos?

They are used only to draw your book and never to train AI. We delete them 30 days after your book is delivered, and drafts that are never ordered after 60 days.

What if it arrives damaged?

Send us a photo and we reprint it free.

Where do you deliver?

To addresses in the United Kingdom and the United States, printed in the country it goes to. We can’t deliver anywhere else yet.

Can I cancel?

Yes, until we print. If you are not happy with the finished pages, cancel before we print and we refund you in full. Once it is printed, a book made for your family can’t be returned, but anything damaged or wrong on our side is reprinted free.

More in the full questions page, or write to [email protected].