Write, illustrate, and narrate a children’s picture book or a personalized bedtime story with Anthra’s AI agent, with the same characters on every page and a full-colour paperback when you want one.
Anthra is an AI children’s book maker. Describe the story, and its AI agent writes it, illustrates it in a warm children’s-book style with the same characters from scene to scene, reads it aloud with lifelike voices, and exports it as an ebook, a PDF, or a full-colour printed paperback.
Most image tools make one good picture and then forget what your hero looked like. Anthra treats the book as one project: the story, the characters, the illustration style, and the narration all live together, so a change to the text or a new scene doesn’t mean starting the art over. It’s the same agentic book creator behind Anthra’s novels and memoirs, pointed at the shortest, most visual kind of book.
Describe it in a sentence or two: who it’s for, who the hero is, what happens. The premise interview asks a few questions to sharpen the idea, or you can skip it and write the brief yourself.
Choose Children (or Kids 8–12 for chapter books) and a tone such as Cozy or Humorous. These nudge both the outliner and the voice of the prose.
The agent outlines the story and drafts it. Short is the smallest length in the wizard, and you can tweak chapter targets in the studio afterwards or trim the text by hand in the editor.
Set the book’s style to Children’s book (warm, rounded shapes, a bright palette, soft gouache texture) and every cover, chapter illustration, and character portrait follows it.
Narrate the story with a voice from the ElevenLabs library, export EPUB or PDF, order a full-colour paperback, or publish a reading page to share with family.
Picture books live or die on the pictures and on how they sound read aloud. These are the parts of Anthra that matter most for them.
Generate a portrait of your main character, then lock it. Anthra keeps a short appearance description for each locked character and adds it to every later chapter, scene, and cover prompt, so the fox in the red scarf stays a fox in a red scarf.
Illustrate a whole chapter at once, or pick a paragraph and illustrate just that moment. You can generate chapter openers in bulk and review them side by side, and place pictures directly inside the story text.
Illustrations and covers use OpenAI’s newest image model, which leaves space for your text. Cover titles sit on a separate layer you can move and restyle without regenerating the art.
A spoken-readability check scores how easy each passage is to read out loud and flags what trips the tongue. The studio’s stats panel shows each chapter’s reading grade, colour-coded so a chapter that suddenly reads harder stands out.
Cast a narrator, give each character their own voice, and Anthra attributes dialogue to the right speaker. The audiobook is packaged as a chapter-by-chapter M4B from the same manuscript.
Anthra drafts alt text for each illustration, describing what is actually visible, and the reader uses it, so the book works with screen readers too.
A bedtime story is better when it’s about them. Tell the agent your child’s name, the stuffed rabbit that goes everywhere, the street you live on, the thing they’re nervous about this week, and it writes a story around those details. Ask for it gentler, funnier, or shorter, and it revises the part you point at instead of starting over.
You decide who sees it. Books start private. Make one unlisted and anyone with the link can read it, or make it public and list it on Discover. Nothing is published until you say so.
Every format comes from the same manuscript, so a fix to one line shows up everywhere. Export EPUB for e-readers and tablets, PDF for printing at home, or DOCX to keep editing elsewhere. For a physical copy, Anthra prepares the interior and a front, back, and spine cover wrap, computes spine width and bleed, and lets you order it from Lulu print-on-demand as an 8.5 × 11 inch full-colour paperback.
Want to sell it? Publish to Discover, gate downloads behind an email or a paid checkout, or embed a reader on your own site. See pricing for credit packs.
Yes. With Anthra, an AI agent plans and writes the story, illustrates it in a children’s-book style, keeps the characters consistent from scene to scene, and can narrate it aloud. You review and edit every page, and you decide when it’s finished.
Put the details in the premise: your child’s name, a favourite toy or pet, a place they love, the lesson or adventure you have in mind. Choose the Children audience and a Cozy tone, and the agent writes the story around them. You can rewrite any line in the editor before you illustrate or narrate it.
Lock a character’s portrait and Anthra adds its appearance description to every later chapter, scene, and cover prompt, and the book’s illustration style is applied to every image. That keeps the look consistent across the book, though it works from descriptions rather than copying the portrait pixel for pixel, so review each picture and regenerate any that drift.
Yes. Anthra exports print-ready files and can send the book to Lulu print-on-demand. The 8.5" × 11" full-colour paperback is meant for illustrated and picture books and takes between 32 and 480 pages; Anthra computes spine width and bleed for the cover wrap. Placing a print order is always your own click.
Anthra uses pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, with no subscription. An illustration costs 4 credits, a chapter 5, and narration 2 credits per 1,000 characters, and every paid action shows its price before it runs. New accounts get welcome credits with no card required.
You do. The stories, illustrations, and narration you generate are yours, and paid credit packs include a commercial license, so you can sell the book or give it away.
Yes. Write in the full chapter editor or import a manuscript you already have (DOC, DOCX, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF), then use the agent only for the illustrations, cover, narration, or export.
New accounts get welcome credits, no card required. Curious how the agent works? Read about the agentic book creator.
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