Mixed-heritage children are often the hardest to find in a personalised book. Character builders offer skin tones as a row of steps, and hair as a handful of styles, and a child whose skin sits between two steps and whose hair is a texture of its own ends up approximated: the nearest option, and a parent explaining that it is meant to be them. What gets lost in the nearest option Skin tone. The step above looks too dark, the step below too light, and neither is quite their colour. Hair. Loose curls, tight coils, or a mix across the head, rarely match a single preset. Features. Builders offer little for the shape of the face, beyond eye shape on some. None of this is a disaster in a picture book. But the point of a personalised book is that the child sees themselves, and a near miss lands differently on a child who may already notice they do not look quite like either side of the family. Drawn from a photo instead Our book draws your child from one photo, so their skin, their face and their hair come from the picture rather than from the nearest preset. You see two finished pages with your child in them before you pay, which is the honest test: does this look like them? The setting does some of the work Our story, Aseye and the Bridge in the Sky, is set at the canopy walkway in Kakum National Park in Ghana. For a child with a Ghanaian parent, that is their parent's country made into an adventure with them at the centre, without needing to explain anything. It can be the first book where Ghana is somewhere they are, rather than somewhere a parent is from. The second character is a grown-up reading buddy whose name and relationship you choose. You could name them after the Ghanaian grandparent, Grandma or Grandpa, or an auntie the child sees on video calls. The buddy is drawn as the book's own grown-up character rather than from a photo, but reading it together is still a small way of keeping that side of the family close. If the heritage is not Ghanaian We should be clear: we have one title, and it is set in Ghana. If your child's African parent is Nigerian, Kenyan or from anywhere else, the book is still a West African adventure with your child as the hero, but it is not set in their parent's country. We would rather say that than have you discover it. Practical bits Use a recent photo in natural light, facing the camera, with the whole head in the picture. Pick the hairstyle you want in the book. The book draws what the photo shows. It costs £24.99 + £4.00 UK delivery, or GHS 199 + GHS 50 delivery in Ghana, and arrives in 1–2 weeks from your order, printing included. Will the book get a mixed-heritage child's skin tone right? It is drawn from your photo rather than chosen from a row of presets, and you see two finished pages before you pay. If it is not right, swap in a photo with better light and we will draw it again. Can the reading buddy be a grandparent? Yes. You choose the reading buddy's name and relationship, including Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie, Uncle, Godmother and Godfather. The buddy is drawn as the book's own grown-up character, not from a photo. Do you have books set in Nigeria or Kenya? Not yet. Our one title is set at Kakum in Ghana.