Our Family Is...

Your Family's Name for Love Belongs on This Page

There is a word your child already knows for the person who tucks them in at night. A word for the smell of the dish that means celebration. A word for the feeling of being completely, perfectly home.

Our Family Is... puts those words on the page. In your language. In your voice. So your child grows up seeing exactly who they are and where they come from, in a warm, beautifully illustrated hardcover picture book made for reading together again and again.

The First Book in Your Family's Story

Our Family Is... is Book 1 of the Our Family Story 3 Book Set, three hardcover picture books that grow with your child from birth to age 6:

• Our Family Is... Identity, heritage, and the people your child loves most
• Our Family Does... Traditions, celebrations, foods, and rituals that make your year feel like home
• Our Family Says... The greetings, pet names, and everyday expressions that fill your home with love

Each book stands beautifully on its own. Together, they become something your child will reach for at bedtime for years.

This book: Hardcover $75 Complete Our Family Story 3 Book Set: 3 Beautiful Hardcover Books $175 with free shipping (regular $225)

Built Around Your Real Family

You know your family's story better than anyone. We build this book around it.

We give you a simple, warm questionnaire with categories and prompts. You fill in your family's real words, in your own language, your own spelling, your own way. You can even share personal photos or family artwork to weave into the pages.

Here is what we gather from you:

• Your child's name and the names of every family member who matters
• The words your child uses for the people they love (Lola, Baba, Dadi, Kokum, Teta, Oma, whatever is yours)
• Your home language and any second language spoken at home
• The foods, clothing, and objects with their real names in your language
• Your family's traditions, celebrations, and seasonal moments
• Nicknames, expressions, and terms of endearment from your everyday life
• Personal photos or family artwork you would love included (optional)

Every detail you share becomes part of the story. Every word you give us lands on the page exactly as your family says it.

Simple Enough for Toddlers. Rich Enough to Last a Lifetime.

Our Family Is... is 20 to 40 pages of warm, simple storytelling designed for little ones under 5. Short sentences, rich illustrations, and real family words that children absorb naturally through repetition and read-alouds.

Home language words sit comfortably alongside English throughout every page. Your child hears "Dadi" and learns "grandmother." They hear "Lola" and learns "grandfather's wife." They hear your language and their new language in the same loving sentence, and both become theirs.

This is how bilingual children build their identity. One bedtime story at a time.

The Window Before School

For families raising children in Canada who are under 5 and not yet in school, this book arrives at exactly the right moment.

School is coming. English is coming. The world outside your door will teach your child so much. Our Family Is... makes sure your language, your people, and your child's sense of self travel with them into that world, rooted deeply in who they are before the rush begins.

Created In Canada, For Families Who Carry Two Worlds

Proudly created in Canada, with deep respect for the cultures, languages, and traditions that newcomer families carry with them when they build a life here.

Your child is growing up Canadian. They are also growing up as something beautifully richer than that. This book holds both truths at once, honouring where you come from while celebrating exactly where you are.

Whether your family speaks Filipino · عربي · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · አማርኛ · 中文 · Українська · Español · हिन्दी · or any language you call home, your words belong in your child's book.

One Family. One Book. Yours Alone.

Every Our Family Is... is individually crafted for your household and exists only for you. Professionally designed, beautifully printed as a hardcover keepsake, and delivered to your door ready for tonight's storytime.

How It Works

1. Place your order
2. Share your family's story
   Fill in our warm, simple questionnaire with your words, your language, and your family's details
3. We write and design your book
   Our storytelling team builds your personalized picture book around everything you share. We write the stories, design the pages, and place your home language and English side by side on every page.
4. Review and approve
   You see your story before it goes to print. You tell us what to change. We make it right.
5. Receive your keepsake
   Your hardcover book arrives beautifully printed and ready to read

Why Families Love It

• Gives children under 5 a warm, joyful sense of who they are and where they come from, before school begins
• Builds bilingual vocabulary naturally through repetition and read-alouds
• Celebrates the real words, relationships, and cultural identity of your specific family
• Creates a hardcover heirloom that children, parents, and grandparents return to for years
• Helps preserve home language and cultural identity during the most important developmental window of your child's life

Common Questions

What is Our Family Is...?
It is a fully personalized hardcover picture book built around the real words, languages, relationships, and cultural identity of your specific family. Designed for little ones under 5, it is simple, warm, and made to be read together again and again.

Can the book include our home language?
Absolutely, and that is exactly the point. You provide your family's real words, greetings, food names, family titles, and expressions in your home language, and we write them into the story alongside English. Whether your family speaks Filipino · عربي · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · አማርኛ · 中文 · Українська or any other language, your words belong in your child's heart and on every page.

How do we personalize our book?
After placing your order, you receive a warm, simple questionnaire. You fill in your family's real details: names, relationships, traditions, foods, celebrations, home language words, and anything else that makes your family yours. You can even share personal photos or family artwork to include in the illustrations.

Who is this book designed for?
Multicultural and newcomer families with children under 5 growing up in bilingual or multilingual homes. It is also deeply meaningful for Indigenous families who want to preserve traditional language, family terms, and cultural identity for the next generation. If your family has a rich cultural story and you want your child to grow up with it, this book is for you.

How long does it take to receive my book?
Once you complete your personalization questionnaire and approve your story preview, your book is professionally printed and delivered to your door. Allow 16 days from draft approval to delivery in Canada.

Is this book part of a series?
Yes! Our Family Is... is Book 1 of the Our Family Story 3 Book Set. Each book is available individually (hardcover $75). The complete 3 Book Set is available as a beautiful hardcover set for $175 (regular $225), making the set the most beautiful way to experience the full family story.