Children's Book Authors & Illustrators
Shape your story and visual direction together, from manuscript and character studies to a book dummy, production plan, and launch kit.
The AI-assisted children's book studio
Create children's books
your way.
Authors can build a book blueprint and explore a visual prototype before working with an illustrator. Families can create a personalized storybook gift, and teachers can shape stories for their classroom.
In development. Join the early-access waitlist.
Book Blueprintstory, scenes & pacing
Character Studiodesign & consistency
Visual Prototypesscenes before final art
Editable Layoutsshape every spread
Illustrator / Print Readyclear production handoff
Launch Assetspromote your book
Choose your path
Built for different children's book journeys
One shared book engine for creative collaboration, family storytelling, and learning in kindergarten and primary school.
Parents & Children
Create a personalized children's book with your child—their ideas, interests, family, and favorite memories can become a bedtime story, custom gift, or lasting keepsake.
Kindergarten & Primary School Teachers
Create classroom stories, early readers, and activity books around your pupils' reading levels, interests, and learning goals.
For authors · Occibo Promotion
Book marketing assets.
Without a second job.
Being an author shouldn't mean becoming a part-time social media manager.
Occibo will have a dedicated Promotion module to help authors create the promotional assets they need, from book creation to launch and sale. Prepare social media content, book marketing graphics, descriptions, and launch kits in one connected workflow.
Already written your book? Bring it with you.
Bring a book created outside Occibo and use the Promotion module to prepare its marketing assets.
In development · Author marketing tools for new and existing books.
Your book, adapted for each channel.
Instagram & Facebook assets
Author social media posts, book cover reveals, captions, and promotional graphics.
Descriptions & blurbs
Introduce your story on book listings and your author website.
Launch & sales materials
Book mockups, launch announcements, and promotional visuals to help introduce your book to buyers.
Launch plans & outreach
Keyword ideas, review requests, and book launch checklists.
From the first idea to the next chapter See your book journey.
Step by step.
Explore how a manuscript becomes an illustrator-ready blueprint, a family idea becomes a storybook gift, or a lesson becomes a classroom book.
Authors & illustratorsParents & childrenTeachers Explore the workflowsClose the workflows
See your book journey.
Step by step.
Explore how a manuscript becomes an illustrator-ready blueprint, a family idea becomes a storybook gift, or a lesson becomes a classroom book.
Authors & illustratorsParents & childrenTeachers
Occibo workflow by creator type
Manuscript
Upload or paste your story.
Visual Prototype
Try characters, scenes, and layouts.
Illustrator Package
Export briefs, references, and scene notes.
Final Art + Launch
Import final art later, prepare print and promotion.
Occibo is a visual planning tool, not final commercial illustration by default.
Family and classroom workflows follow below
Idea
Start with your child's idea or a family memory.
Personal Details
Add interests, family details, or a character description.
Story + Layout
Build an editable story with pages and visuals.
Preview + Print
Review, approve, print, and give.
Your photos and personal details stay in a private project workspace.
Your photos and details are private and safe with us.
Learning Goal
Choose a topic, routine, or reading skill.
Classroom Context
Set the reading level and familiar story details.
Story + Activities
Shape early readers and activity pages.
Review + Print
Check accuracy and suitability before sharing.
Your photos and personal details stay in a private project workspace.
Your photos and details are private and safe with us.
One Shared Children's Book EngineOne engine.
One engine.
Different workflows.
Choose your role to see how the same engine supports your book journey.
Idea & Details
Interests, memories, or adventures
Child Character
Photo or visual identity
Story + Layout
Editable pages and story
Preview + Print
Review, approve, and order
A personalized children's book can become a birthday gift, bedtime favorite, holiday surprise, or family keepsake.
Photos and personal details stay in a private project workspace.
Learning Goal
Topic, reading level, or routine
Classroom Characters
Inclusive, familiar story details
Story + Activities
Early readers and activity pages
Review + Print
Check suitability before sharing
Designed for kindergarten and primary school learning. Teachers review accuracy, reading level, and suitability.
Use fictional classroom details where possible and share student information only with appropriate permission.
How Occibo Works
AI-assisted, but always reviewed by you.
Occibo is designed for controlled creation, not one-click book generation.
Human Control
Edit, approve, replace, and refine text, characters, illustrations, and layouts.
Professional Creative Control
For children's book authors and illustrators, AI visuals are used for testing and planning. Final art decisions remain with the creator.
Private Project Space
Personalized storybook gifts can use a child's name, interests, family memories, or classroom details in a private project workspace.
Secure Visual Personalization
Parents can add their child's ideas and visual details. Kindergarten and primary school teachers can add classroom context inside a secure project flow.
Print Approval
Nothing goes to print until the user reviews and approves the book.
Provenance Support
Professional creators can track AI mockups, uploaded references, and final artwork decisions.
Limited Early Access
See your children’s book take shape.
Join the Occibo waitlist for early access and be among the first to turn stories, learning ideas, and personal moments into books you can see, shape, and share.
What you lock in
Priority early access and launch pricing.
Learn how to self-publish a children's book ->Who it is for
Children's book authors & illustrators. Parents & children. Kindergarten & primary school teachers.
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Understanding Occibo
A clearer path from story idea to children's book.
Occibo is an AI-assisted studio being developed for children's book authors and illustrators, parents creating personalized storybook gifts, and kindergarten and primary school teachers. Plan your story, explore visual ideas and shape your pages, with creative decisions staying in your hands.
Frequently asked questions
What is Occibo?
Occibo is an AI-assisted children's book creation studio for authors and illustrators, parents with children, and kindergarten and primary school teachers. It is being developed for book planning, visual prototypes, personalized storybooks, classroom books, and author marketing assets. Occibo is in development; you can join the early-access waitlist.
Is Occibo an AI children's book generator?
Occibo is being developed as a guided AI-assisted children's book studio. Authors plan stories, explore consistent characters, prototype illustrations, and review page layouts rather than generate a finished book in one click. The planned workflow also includes print preparation and book promotion support, with creative decisions and review staying with you.
Is Occibo like Canva?
Canva is a general design tool. Occibo is being developed specifically around children's book workflows: story structure, character planning, visual prototyping, page flow, print-aware layouts, and book promotion assets. The planned studio connects manuscript planning, illustration briefing, layout preparation, print preview, and launch copy in one guided workflow.
How can children's book authors and illustrators use Occibo?
The planned workflow is designed to help children's book authors and illustrators develop stories, explore characters and scenes, and prepare a book blueprint, visual references, prototype book dummy, production plan, and launch kit.
Does Occibo create final commercial illustrations for authors?
The planned visual tools are intended for references and prototypes by default. Final commercial artwork should be created by the illustrator, artist, author-illustrator, or chosen final-art workflow.
How does Occibo support author and illustrator collaboration?
The planned workflow helps authors and illustrators share briefs and test ideas, book flow, compositions, and character directions before creating final artwork. Authors can prepare manuscript structure, scene breakdowns, character notes, visual references, and a prototype book dummy to give their illustrator a clearer starting point.
Can parents and children create a storybook together?
The planned family workflow lets parents shape personalized stories with their children using the child's name, ideas, personality, interests, and visual details. The result can be planned as a birthday gift, bedtime story, holiday surprise, or family keepsake. It is not yet generally available.
Can I make a personalized storybook as a gift for my child?
The planned workflow is designed for custom children's books that can mark birthdays, holidays, a new sibling, a family memory, or another special occasion. Parents can make their child the story's hero and review the pages before printing.
Can kindergarten and primary school teachers use Occibo?
The planned teacher workflow is designed for kindergarten and primary school classrooms, with stories, early readers, activity books, and personalized classroom books shaped around reading levels and learning goals. It is not yet generally available.
Does Occibo replace editors or illustrators?
No. Professional editors and illustrators remain important creative collaborators. Occibo is designed to help authors prepare through story planning, prototyping, briefing, and visual testing. AI visuals serve as references and prototypes by default; final commercial artwork and creative decisions remain with the illustrator, artist, author-illustrator, or chosen final-art workflow.
Does Occibo help with book marketing?
Yes. Occibo will have a dedicated Promotion module: an AI-assisted marketing tool for authors to prepare Instagram posts, Facebook promotional graphics, book descriptions, blurbs, cover mockups, keyword ideas, review requests, and launch kits. It supports marketing preparation from book creation to launch and sale, so authors can focus on writing without taking on a part-time social media role. The module is in development; join the early-access waitlist.
Can I create promotional assets for a book made outside Occibo?
Yes. The planned workflow also supports authors bringing an existing book created outside Occibo to prepare marketing and promotional materials. You do not need to recreate the book in Occibo. Supported input formats will be confirmed before launch.
Can families and schools create complete books?
The planned family and school workflows support editable storybooks with custom characters, illustrations, page layouts, preview, and print approval. Families can start with a child's interests or a shared memory, upload a photo into a private project workspace, or describe the child's visual details. Teachers can start with a classroom topic, reading level, or learning goal. Optional printed copies delivered home or to school are part of the product direction. These workflows are in development.
Can I print the book?
The product direction includes print-aware previews and print-on-demand ordering for personal books. Commercial publishing export and advanced print workflows can be added based on early user needs.
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