✦ Our Story ✦
The books that matter most feel like they were made for one child.
FlipWhizz is a personalised children's book platform where the parent is the author, built by someone who's spent 20 years working with kids.
Why FlipWhizz exists
I've spent over 20 years working with children: in secondary schools in the UK, in early years and childcare settings, in ESL classrooms, and in outdoor and experiential education. Across all of it, one thing has always been true. Children light up when they feel seen.
A story that mentions something a child actually cares about, like their favourite animal, a worry they're working through, or the game they play at break time, lands completely differently from a generic one. It's not just more engaging. It tells the child that someone made this for them. Someone knows them.
“Someone made this for me. Someone knows me.”
How it's different
Most personalised children's books start with a template. You type in a name, pick a hair colour, and the name gets dropped into a story that's the same for every child. The only thing that really changes is the cover.
FlipWhizz works the other way round. You're the author. You tell the story you want for your child: what they love, what they're working through, the kind of adventure you have in mind. FlipWhizz takes your direction and helps shape it into an original story and illustrations made for that one child, using a process I designed around what actually works for kids at different ages and stages.
A book for a 4-year-old who loves diggers and is nervous about starting nursery should be nothing like one for a 7-year-old who plays football and dreams about space. With a template, they'd be the same book. Here, they're not.
Built by hand, by one person
I'm Katy. Before I wrote a single line of FlipWhizz's code, I'd spent two decades in classrooms, nurseries, and the outdoors, paying close attention to what actually makes a child lean in. That's the part no template can fake, and it's the part I care most about getting right.
I'm also a self-taught developer, so I built the whole thing myself. I designed the platform, wrote the code, shaped the process behind every story, and set up the printing, and every decision runs through what I've learned from years of watching children respond to stories.
FlipWhizz isn't made by a big company or a faceless product team. It's one person who believes the children's books that matter most are the ones that feel like they were made for exactly one child.
Make one for your child
The story demo is free and takes about two minutes. No sign-up needed.
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