ade for the books my kid asks for again.
y son is three. Like every three-year-old, he has favorites. The book he loved last month is gone; this month it's something else. Most picture books on our shelf miss the moment — they're about something a kid likes, just not the one he loves this week.
So one night I built him a book in ChatGPT — starring his favorite character, with a plot about making yogurt popsicles, which he'd watched me do that afternoon. Pretty rough around the edges. He asked me to read it every night for two weeks.
A little while later, I got sneakier. There was one thing I'd been trying — and failing — to teach him: using the potty. Every time I brought it up in real life, he tuned me out. So I put it in a book — same favorite character, a story he actually wanted to hear, with the potty woven right through the middle. He asked for that one every night too. A week later, he was using the potty on his own.
Those two books taught me the whole product. The book your kid asks for is the book about something they already love — so the story has to be theirs first. But once it is, you can fold in anything you hope they'll learn, and it rides along. Delight leads; the lesson rides along.
The other thing I learned: every AI book tool I tried felt like slop. The characters drifted between pages. The story was generic. The output was something I'd be vaguely embarrassed to read aloud. Whatever the AI did under the hood, the parent never got to edit — you described, you waited, you accepted.
I built DreamWiz so that wouldn't be the workflow. You describe your kid's actual world — what they love, who's in their family, what they call their stuffed animals. You review the script before any drawing happens. You can change any page, regenerate any line, redirect the whole story. Only when you click Draw it do we turn it into a picture book. The Wiz just illustrates what you wrote. Then he sits on your shoulder while you read.
The first reader is my kid. The hundredth is yours. The thousandth is a parent in Beijing whose daughter loves dragons and a grandmother in Toronto whose grandson is learning Mandarin from her over FaceTime.
Every kid deserves a book they ask for by name. Every parent deserves bedtime to be the easy part of the day.
That's why I'm building this. I hope you bring DreamWiz home for your kid.
Founder of DreamWiz
Every book is about your kid.
Not a template with your kid's name slotted in. We start with what makes your kid laugh, scream, ask "again?" — and build a book around that. The story is theirs; the illustrations follow.
You read every page before we draw a single illustration.
AI proposes the script. You approve, edit, redirect, regenerate. We illustrate only what you decide. Bedtime stories shouldn't be a black box.
Made for bilingual homes.
Books in English, Chinese, or both. Heritage stays alive when your kid sees their language on the page. We started with the languages we know best. More to come.