Obooga — Press & Media
Everything a writer needs about the story studio where kids write the book themselves.
What Obooga is
Obooga is a big, round, sweetly incompetent monster who knows everything about stories except what happens next. In a ~20-minute web session, children ages 6–12 rescue his unfinished story by making every creative decision — the setting, the invented creature, the plan, the twist, the title. The result is a real illustrated book with the child's name on the byline ("Written by Maya, with Obooga"), free to read and share, with an optional printed hardcover keepsake of their exact story.
The category: child-authored books
Personalized books put a child's name into a fixed plot. AI story apps generate stories at children. Obooga inverts both: the child is the author, the technology is the illustrator and typesetter. Every story world is human-written and every illustration human-reviewed; AI appears only in narrow, guarded moments — smoothing the child's own words into a sentence, speaking their name aloud, and drawing the one picture they describe themselves. We call the result a child-authored book, because it's the truth of every page.
"This isn't AI writing stories for your kids. This is technology bringing your child's imagination to life."
Fact sheet
| Product | Web story studio + free shareable digital books + optional printed hardcover |
| Ages | 6–12 (younger authors with a grown-up nearby) |
| Session length | About 20 minutes to a complete illustrated book |
| Price | Free to make and share; hardcover $37, additional copies $29 (US shipping) |
| Platform | Web — desktop, tablet, phone; no app install, no account needed |
| Privacy | No child accounts, no ads. A first name for the story; a parent's email only if they choose to save their library. All child input moderated. Built for the amended COPPA rule. |
| Design research | Dialogic reading (Whitehurst's PEER/CROWD framework); the protégé effect (Chase et al., 2009) — the child is always the capable one |
| Story worlds | Three at launch: The Unfinished Galaxy, The Giggling Jungle, The Whispering Sea |
| Company | Obooga is an independent, parent-run studio. The chief story officer is seven years old. |
Sample stories
Playable sample books starring different young authors: a space adventure · a galaxy rescue · an ocean story — or start a book of your own at the studio.
Brand assets
Free to use in coverage of Obooga. Please don't imply endorsement or alter the character.
Boilerplate
Short: Obooga is a story studio for kids 6–12, built around a lovable monster who starts every story and gets gloriously stuck — so the child makes all the creative decisions and finishes a real illustrated book, free to share, with an optional hardcover keepsake.
One line: Obooga ran out of story. Your kid writes the rest.
Contact
Press inquiries: press@obooga.com. We respond quickly and can provide additional screenshots, sample hardcovers for review, and interviews.