Maloand the Cardboard Rocket
The Cardboard Rocket
“Your Child and the Cardboard Rocket”
A little star has fallen into the backyard. To get her home before dawn, your child builds a cardboard rocket.
- Age
- Ages 5 to 8
- Pages
- 32 illustrated pages
- Book language
- English or French, your choice
- Format
- 21 × 21 cm (8.3 × 8.3 in), digital and print
- Digital book (PDF)€9.90
- Paperback+ free PDF€29.90
- Hardcover+ free PDF€39.90
- Optional: the audiobook+ €3.90
Page through the cover and the first eleven pages for free, with your child’s first name.
The story
Your child is the smallest kid in the class, with ideas as big as mountains. One evening, a teeny-tiny star falls among the pumpkins in the vegetable garden. If she isn’t home before sunrise, her light will go out.
With Bolt, a cookie-tin robot, and a cardboard rocket, your child zooms from the Moon all the way to the Big Dipper. At every stop, there is something to observe, to fix, to invent… and no giving up.
To read together, then alone: short sentences, joyful dialogue, ten space words explained in the story, and a real sky map for finding the little star.
Themes: space and the solar system, inventing, trying, fixing, even the smallest can shine, looking closely before acting.
Page through the preview
Shown here with the name Malo. Once you write your child’s first name, you’ll see these pages with your choices.
This preview is in English. You can order every book in English or French.
Maloand the Cardboard Rocket
Cover
What you personalize
The first name and the dedication are typeset in the book, never painted into an image, so their spelling and accents are exact.
- Your child’s first name
- In the title, on the cover and throughout the text
- Changes: Text
- The hero who looks like them
- In every illustration where the hero appears
- Changes: Illustrations
- Boy or girl
- The pronouns in the text (he / she, his / her) and the illustrated hero
- Changes: Text and illustrations
- Mom’s name
- Wherever she speaks or appears in the text
- Changes: Text
- Your dedication
- On the dedication page, at the opening of the book
- Changes: Dedication
The heroes of this story
Choose the hero who looks most like your child. Each hero is painted on every page of the book, with the same face from start to finish.
Boys
Brown curls
olive skin, freckles, brown eyes
Blond side part
fair skin, blue eyes
Short coily hair
deep brown skin, brown eyes
Redhead with glasses
straight hair, red glasses, green eyes
Girls
Brown curls
olive skin, ponytail, brown eyes
Blond braids
fair skin, blue eyes
Two afro puffs
deep brown skin, brown eyes
Black bob with bangs
golden skin, almond eyes
Option
A hero created from your child’s photo
+ €14.90
Per book, on top of the format you choose. The avatar preview is free.
Create my hero- Just one photoClear, with the face well visible and only one child.
- An illustrated avatarInspired by your child’s features, hair and skin tone, in the book’s style.
- The hero of the storyYour child’s face on every page, in the book’s outfits, poses and scenes.
- After you orderThe book is illustrated, then checked before it is sent.
The photo never appears in the book. It is used to draw the avatar, stays private and is deleted after 24 hours or when you ask.
Formats and prices
Digital book (PDF)
€9.90
- Read it on a tablet or computer, or print it at home.
- Download it from your order page. The link comes by email.
Paperback
€29.90
+ free PDF
- Soft cover, coated paper, premium color printing, 21 × 21 cm (8.3 × 8.3 in).
- Made one at a time, then shipped.
- Comes with its digital book (PDF) for free: the same personalized book.
Hardcover
€39.90
+ free PDF
- Printed hard cover, premium paper, 21 × 21 cm (8.3 × 8.3 in).
- The one to keep, and to give.
- Comes with its digital book (PDF) for free: the same personalized book.
The shipping price for printed books to your country is shown before you pay. See delivery and the digital book.
Optional: the audiobook
+ €3.90
Added to your book, once per book.
The whole story read aloud in the book’s language, page by page, with your child’s first name. About 6 minutes of listening, in MP3 format, to play on your order page or download.
- One narrator’s voice, calm and steady, the same for all our books. No sound effects or music.
- Narrated in the language of your book: French or English.
- The voice is a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs), created from the final text of your book. If the first name is pronounced differently from how it is spelled, you can tell us how to say it.
- The audiobook is prepared after your order, once the book has been checked. We listen to it before sending it to you.
Synthetic voice: Lina
Questions about this book
My child’s first name is long. Is that a problem?
No. First names of up to 20 characters are accepted, with accents, hyphens and apostrophes. On the cover, the size of the title adapts to the length of the name.
My child calls their mom something else.
You can replace “Mom” with any name you like: Mommy, Mama, Ummi or a first name. It appears wherever she speaks in the text.
Is the sky map real?
Yes. The map on page 31 is calculated from the real positions of the stars of the Big Dipper. The little star in the story exists: astronomers call it Alcor, and you can see it with the naked eye on a very dark night, far from city lights.
And for a girl?
The text uses she and her, and all four girl heroes are illustrated in every scene of the book, just like the four boy heroes.
