Make your own family storybook with a 20% discount
Make your own family storybook that tells your whole family story, including your child’s donor conception or adoption.
Use our unique code for Proud 2 b Parents, PROUD20, to receive your 20% discount off each book.
ABOUT STORYDO
What is Storydo?
Storydo Books is a platform that enables parents to create a bespoke family storybook to help them tell their child about their donor conception or adoption story.
How does it work?
The Storydo BookBuilder will take parents through the whole book, chapter by chapter. All you have to do is answer questions and upload photos. The BookBuilder will create layouts and text that can easily be edited. The finished A4 hardcover books typically contain 50-80 pages (depending on the options chosen) and will be sent to you.
Who would like it
The books are designed for children between 2 and 7 years age. They are designed to make disclosure a positive experience: even very young children love recognising familiar faces and places, so parents have their attention. Reading the part about the donor conception becomes one of the many things that make the child who they are. They are great to start the conversation about a child’s donor conception. Families like to re-visit the books over and over again for years to come, which gives parents the opportunity to add more detail and explain more as the child gets older.
Benefits
Storydo books do more than explain a child’s genetic heritage—they celebrate and normalize diverse families by validating each child’s lived experience and family setup. Designed to strengthen children’s identity, the books place them at the heart of a loving and secure family, encouraging storytelling that fosters closeness, resilience, and emotional and cognitive development. Seeing their family story in a book offers children a unique perspective, showcasing their family as a wonderful and loving union. Additionally, storytelling and narrative techniques can help process hardship and trauma by engaging the rational brain, reducing emotional intensity, and promoting logical reasoning. For instance, in adoption stories, the use of third-person narration for birth family events provides psychological distance, transitioning to inclusive first-person language when focusing on the forever family. This thoughtful approach makes children the heroes of their own stories while supporting emotional growth and family connection.
Who is behind the book?
Storydo was founded by two mums, Sonja and Nina, who wanted to use the storytelling skills they honed in the corporate publishing world to make a difference. They found that most families had tens of thousands of family photos, which were never printed, and often forgotten. In lockdown, they developed a revolutionary way of using these images and memories to craft the family narrative in a way that is accessible to everyone.