A 3D book for Christmas: your story as a holiday animated film

Animated cinema is one of the few common grounds between a six-year-old and their grandparents. One sees heroes, the other finds the fairy tales of their childhood. Christmas films have made it their specialty: a village under snow, an impossible mission before midnight, a lesson in tenderness at the end.

A book in this style is a gift you read aloud, the child on your lap, pointing: "that's you, there." That moment matters as much as the book itself.

Characters with gentle proportions, expressive faces with big eyes, skin and hair rendered as in an animation studio. Light is warm indoors and bluish outside. Snowflakes have volume and catch the glow of the fairy lights.

Settings are composed like film shots: depth of field, a blurred foreground, a glowing background. Every page could be a freeze frame.

• ✦ The night Grandpa helped Santa finish his rounds
• ✦ The snowman who comes to life in the garden
• ✦ Grandma's cookie factory, flour up to the ceiling
• ✦ The broken-down sleigh, fixed with a wooden spoon
• ✦ The child's letter, read by the grandparent by the fire

The style shines with an intergenerational duo: a grandparent and grandchild, a mother and daughter, a godfather and godson. It also works for a couple who kept a child's heart. Keep the basic rule in mind: two characters, two photos. Other family members can appear in the story, but the book is built around that duo.

Creation in about 2 hours, 48 hours for your review, printing and delivery in 5 to 7 days. Order print before December 12. After that, the digital edition or the gift card sent by email still let you put something under the tree.