About Us

Every story needs a hero. Ours is your child.

Mionne makes personalized picture books where one child, yours, is the hero of every page. You send us a photo and a first name. We paint your child into the story: parting giant ferns in a misty forest, comforting a lost baby dinosaur, and being brave even while trembling.

The name Mionne comes from "mio", mine. It is the word we kept hearing in our heads when we imagined a child opening the book: this is my story, this is my own.

Painted, not pasted

Most personalized books place a photo or a generic avatar on ready-made pages. We work differently. Your child is painted into each illustration in the same soft watercolour and gouache style as the rest of the book, with their face, their hair, their expressions. The result does not look like a sticker on a page. It looks like a book that was always about them.

Stories that help them grow

Each Mionne story is written for young children and carries one simple idea: courage, kindness, sharing, perseverance. Short sentences, warm refrains, and a hero who is scared sometimes and keeps going anyway. Because that is exactly what heroes do.

Made for one child only

Every book is created individually, one copy at a time, and printed on thick, beautiful paper made to survive hundreds of bedtimes. No two Mionne books are the same, because no two children are.

We launched Mionne in 2026 as a small team of parents and storytellers. We would rather make one book beautifully than a thousand quickly.

Questions? We would love to hear from you: contact@mionne.com.