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Story Angle #1: Take it Personal: New Personalized Children’s Book Capitalizes on Personalization Trend
From creating custom postage stamps to personalizing the message stamped on M&M’s, personalization is everywhere. Capitalizing on this trend, Custom Made For Kids has introduced its first personalized children’s book entitled The First Adventures of Incredible You. This one-of-a-kind book is “built” by customers on the Custom Made For Kids website where they enter over 20 details about a child and those people and places that are most important to that child.

Story Angle #2: Grandparents “Star” Alongside Their Grandchildren in New Personalized Children’s Book
Grandparents are becoming increasingly more involved in their grandchildren’s lives and upbringing. The First Adventures of Incredible You is a new personalized children’s book that allows grandparents to include themselves and other important people, interests and family traditions in the story. This new keepsake book celebrates the connection between a child and the special people in his or her life.

Story Angle #3: New Personalized Children’s Book Celebrates the Uniqueness of Every Family
The First Adventures of Incredible You is a new personalized children’s book that allows you to customize up to 20 details about the child receiving this one-of-a kind book. There are a variety of places in the book where the child’s parent(s) or guardian(s) may be named in the rhyming text. Consequently, any family structure, including families headed by gay parents, single-parents and guardians, may be represented in the story. The First Adventures of Incredible You is sure to strike a special chord with those households having a less typical family structure since there are very few books on the market that are truly representative of their families.

Story Angle #4: New Personalized Children’s Book Highlights Family’s Favorite Food Traditions
The First Adventures of Incredible You is a new personalized children’s book that allows you to customize up to 20 details about the child receiving this one-of-a kind book. Especially endearing is the inclusion of a page about the family’s favorite food. From a grandma’s celebrated chocolate chip cookies to an uncle’s famous chili, virtually every family has a relative who is known for a certain dish. The First Adventures of Incredible You is a keepsake gift that will introduce your child to your family’s favorite food traditions as well as many other traditions that are unique to your family.

Story Angle #5: Go Team! New Personalized Children’s Book Includes Family’s Favorite Sports Team
The experience of taking a child to his or her first big game is very special for many moms and dads. The new personalized children’s book, The First Adventures of Incredible You, includes a page about the family’s favorite sports team and that first memorable experience of cheering on a beloved team. The keepsake book will introduce your child to your family’s favorite sports team as well as many other traditions that are unique to your family.

Story Angle #6: Chicagoland Mom Entrepreneurs Strike Successful Work/Life Balance
In the fall of 2006, Sarah Riley Headrick and Sarah Foreman Rivera were mothers of young children who were seeking a creative outlet that would allow them to earn some extra money, yet still stay home with their preschool children. They came up with what they believe to be the perfect solution to meet these seemingly competing needs. The mom entrepreneurs started a personalized children’s book business called Custom Made For Kids. The “birth” of their first book, The First Adventures of Incredible You, is the result of nine months of very hard labor writing and developing the book. Custom Made For Kids is now “open for business” and the two mothers are selling their hardcover, keepsake book to parents all over the country from the comfort of their own homes.

Story Angle #7: Personalized Storybook Appeals to Adoptive Parents and Children of All Races
The co-authors of a new personalized children’s book entitled The First Adventures of Incredible You are getting very positive feedback from adoptive parents on their first book. One such customer, Jennifer Huffman of Scarsdale, New York, wrote a special thank you note to the two mom entrepreneurs of Custom Made For Kids thanking them for bringing the keepsake gift to the market. In her note, she said, “My daughters were adopted from China and I love how this book works for all kinds of children, however they enter their families and whatever their race.” As co-authors of the book and co-owners of Custom Made For Kids, Sarah Riley Headrick and Sarah Foreman Rivera requested that the illustrator of the book, Jill Dryer Bartolucci, carefully execute her rich, colorful illustrations so that they would apply to children of any race and to children of either sex. In addition, they made sure that the lively, rhyming verse would work for adopted children as well as children living with their biological parents. The hardcover book describes the child’s birth date as the date the child “arrived on this magnificent earth” rather than something more typical such as when the parents first saw him or her in the hospital. Ms. Headrick and Ms. Rivera’s attention to detail seems to be paying off as children of all kinds are enjoying their unique versions of the book all over the country.

Story Angle #8: Seeing Oneself in Personalized Children’s Book Can Promote a Child’s Interest in Reading
According to the National Education Association, children relate better to reading material when the books they are reading are about things that are of interest to them and that are familiar to them. What could be more interesting and familiar to a child than his or her own family, friends and the special places he or she likes to go? The First Adventures of Incredible You is a new personalized children’s book that allows your child to “star” in his or her own story about his or her first adventures of life, including visits to his or her very own zoo, park and beach with the people who are most familiar to him or her. Your child’s name and the people and places that are important to him or her appear over 20 times throughout the book, making it a truly one-of-a kind book. In addition to being a memorable, keepsake book, The First Adventures of Incredible You may even encourage and promote your child’s interest in reading.

Story Angle #9: Rich, Full Color Art in a Personalized Children’s Book? Who Knew!
Many personalized children’s books on the market today are produced on low quality paper with very few full color illustrations. In other words, they are produced more for the novelty of seeing one’s name in print than the “art” of creating a professional looking, full color illustrated book that will remain a family keepsake for years to come. Co-owners of Custom Made for Kids, Sarah Riley Headrick and Sarah Foreman Rivera, have decided the time has come for personalized books to make a change. These mom entrepreneurs co-authored the new personalized book, The First Adventures of Incredible You, and hired Chicago artist, Jill Dryer Bartolucci to illustrate the book in rich, full color illustrations. The high quality, hardcover book is certain to become a memorable keepsake that will be treasured for a lifetime.