Animals and the Work They Do in Nature

Book details

Animals and the Work They Do in Nature

Published as Animals: The Helpers We Share the Earth With

A day out among the animals that keep the world working

Ages 3-7 Printed Audio Animated
Categories Learning & Play Adventure
from 19.06 EUR Opening Sale + delivery from 4.99 EUR Minimum price for: Real-photo book, 10 × 10 cm A personalized story made around your family.
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What you get

A Löwenbuch is a personally designed picture book, printed and posted to you — with your own child inside the story rather than a stranger's.

  • A printed book, not a file It is printed, bound and delivered. Each copy is made for one child, so no two of them are the same.
  • Your child in the pictures You send a photograph and a name, and the illustrations are redrawn with the help of AI, and checked by us, so the child on every page is yours. A grown-up they know can be in it too.
  • It can read itself aloud Hold a phone over a printed page and the picture moves and the characters speak, in AI voices made from your recordings. Optional, and always an addition to reading together.

Inside this book

4 sample spreads, shown with the text as it will be printed.

The language your copy would be printed in — not the language of this shop.

Book facts

One day, out of the front door at first light and back to the same step at dusk. Tap the characters to hear them, and watch every spread move: a bee going from clover head to clover head, a whole orb web breathing in the air, three bats cutting across the dusk, and a line of horseshoe crabs coming up a moonlit beach the way they have since before there were trees.

Age
Ages 3-7
Theme
Bedtime adventure
Format
10 × 10, 13 × 13 or 20 × 20 cm
Editions
Real-photo book, 10 × 10 cm, Real-photo book, 13 × 13 cm, Hardcover, 20 × 20 cm
Pages
44 pages
Language
English, German
Features
Printed, Audio, Animated
Edition
1.0

Personalized roles

  • Lina child
  • Papa grown-up

No two copies alike

What you choose

You make these choices when you order. Each one changes the printed pages, the illustrations and the voices you hear in the app.

Who is in it

These roles are cast from your own family. You choose who each one is and, depending on the level, upload a photo and a short voice recording when you order.

Lina

child

Gender

  • Girl
  • Boy
A photo of their face
About ten seconds of their voice

The name the book calls them

Papa

grown-up

Gender

  • Dad
  • Mum
A photo of their face
About ten seconds of their voice

The name the book calls them

What is in the pictures

The toy that comes along

Mo goes on every page — carried, propped, tucked under an arm. Choose which toy that is, or send a photo of your child's own.

  • Mole Mole
  • Bunny Bunny
  • Elephant Elephant
  • Lion cub Lion cub
  • Teddy bear Teddy bear
  • Plush dinosaur Plush dinosaur
  • +1 more

What the toy is called

Leave this empty and the toy stays Mo. Type a name and it is called that everywhere in the book — printed on the page and spoken aloud. If you are sending a photo of your child's own toy above, put the same name here.

You write this one yourself.

The child's jumper

The jumper under the coat, and what shows whenever the coat is open.

  • Rust red Rust red
  • Mustard yellow Mustard yellow
  • Teal Teal
  • Forest green Forest green
  • Plum purple Plum purple

The child's rucksack

The small pack that goes along for the whole day. Leave it as it is and it stays the canvas one the book is drawn with.

  • As in the book As in the book
  • Moss green Moss green
  • Rust orange Rust orange
  • Navy blue Navy blue
  • Red Red

The grown-up's shirt

The shirt under the jacket — the one light note in the grown-up's outfit.

  • Cream Cream
  • Sky blue Sky blue
  • Sage green Sage green
  • Oatmeal Oatmeal
  • Rust orange Rust orange

How your copy is printed

The edition

Which size and binding your copy is printed in. You choose it on the order form.

  • Real-photo book, 10 × 10 cm
  • Real-photo book, 13 × 13 cm
  • Hardcover, 20 × 20 cm

Prices

Book language

The language your copy is printed in, and read aloud in.

  • English
  • German

A dedication

A few words of your own, printed inside your copy — or leave blank.

You write this one yourself.

The sample pages above show the marked choice. Yours can show any of them.

After the last page

The book keeps going after the story does

Bound into the back of every copy: pages to use together once the story is over, and a page written for the grown-up who read it.

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Shown here in part. These pages are printed in full in every copy.

Things to look for

Four of these are in a garden, and none of them needs a car.

  • FOLLOW ONE BEE Not all of them — one. Count how many flowers it lands on before you lose it. Every landing moved a little pollen, and some of those flowers will be…
  • TURN OVER ONE SPADEFUL Count the worms. Put the earth back the way it was. A spadeful with a lot of worms in it is soil that is working; a spadeful with none is worth…
  • STAND OUTSIDE AT DUSK Bats come out about twenty minutes after sunset and they do not fly like birds — they turn far too sharply. Watch for the turn.

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For the grown-up reading this

The last six spreads are about animals people have learned medicine and biology from, and they are drawn deliberately: every animal in this book is outdoors, awake and free. That…

  • Mice are bred and studied indoors, and most new medicines are tested in animals before any person receives them. Zebrafish are kept in tanks.…
  • None of that belongs in the pictures for a four-year-old, and none of it needs to be hidden from an eight-year-old who asks. "Some of them are kept…
  • The other thing worth saying out loud is the last spread's point: what these animals do helps them and helps us as well. The bee eats the honey it…