✏️ Pickatale Create

Stories written for every reader.
By teachers. By kids.

Type a topic. Pick a reading stage. Get a curriculum-aligned illustrated book in three minutes — built for your class, or built by your child.

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Create for Teachers
Your lesson topic. Three minutes. A book written for your class.
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Create for Kids
Now children write the adventure — with AI illustrations and narration.
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✨ New — Create for Kids

Now children write
the adventure.

Every child has a story to tell. Give them the tools to tell it — AI-generated illustrations, narration, and all. Safe. Ad-free. Genuinely magical.

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🎨 AI-illustrated books 🎙️ Narrated by the child's own voice 🚫 No ads · No in-app purchases
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📖 Phonics Decodables

Decodable books built for
how you teach phonics.

Carefully sequenced decodable readers — aligned to both UK DfE Letters & Sounds and UFLI Foundations — so every child reads only the sounds they've been taught.

UK DfE Validated
Letters & Sounds
Phases 2–6 · Government-approved
US UFLI Aligned
UFLI Foundations
Science of Reading · Structured Literacy
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See Pickatale Create in action

A teacher types a topic.
A child types a story.
Both get a real book in minutes.

Watch how Pickatale Create works for teachers building curriculum-aligned books — and for kids writing their own adventures.

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👩‍🏫 Teacher creates a class book 🌟 Child writes the adventure ⏱️ Done in under 3 minutes

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10,000+
schools worldwide
200,000+
children reading every week
9/10
teachers recommend
38+
markets
What makes Pickatale different

Two tools that change everything

✏️
Pickatale Create

Your lesson topic. Three minutes. A curriculum-aligned book, written for your class.

No searching. No settling. No 45-minute detour to find a book that's almost right. Type your topic and reading stage — and your class has an illustrated, narrated, curriculum-aligned book with a comprehension quiz already attached.

See how it works
👩‍🏫 For teachers & schools
🌟
Create for Kids

Now children write the adventure

Every child has a story to tell. Create for Kids gives them the tools to tell it — AI-generated illustrations, narration, and all, in a safe ad-free environment. Reading and writing, woven together.

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👧 For children aged 4–12

The right book.
For every reader. Every time.

An award-winning reading platform — 2,500+ books across 8 expert-assessed reading stages, from early picture books to confident chapter books for readers aged 12. Audio, read-along, animations, and comprehension quizzes. Every child finds their level, on day one.

📚 2,500+ books 🎧 Audio & read-along 🎬 Animations ✅ Comprehension quizzes 📱 All devices 8 reading stages
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Reading for pleasure is more important for a child's cognitive development than their parents' level of education.

University College London, 2013

This is why we built Pickatale.

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🔒 ISO 27001 Certified 🛡️ GDPR Compliant 🚫 No Ads 🚫 No In-App Purchases 🤖 Educator-designed AI with no inappropriate content risk

Who are you reading for?

Choose your path to get started

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For Schools

I'm a teacher or school

Spot who needs help. Give every student the right book. Save the time you never had.

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For Families

I'm a parent

Give your child 2,500+ books they'll actually choose to read.

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