Examples

Real books made in InkStak

Every book on this page was written and illustrated in InkStak and exported with the app’s own exports. All ten are shared in the InkStak Community and free to read, so you can read any of them right here, no account needed, and see for yourself.

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Each book is shared in the InkStak Community, and you can read it here with no account: every page and picture, just as its family made it, in the same reader as the app.

One character, four kinds of book

Tully the otter as a read-aloud picture book at 4, a Kid Reads story for a child learning to read, a choose-your-own-adventure, and a chapter book at 9.

Cover: Tully the otter at the door of a room lined with shelves

Tully and the Missing Socks

Age 4 · Read aloud · My Style, digital

A rhyming picture book to read aloud, with 10 pictures. Starring Tully.

Cover: Tully the otter hugging a big red rock by a pink-hilled river

Tully and the Red Rock

Age 5 · Kid Reads Level 2 · Dreamy Pastel

Written with the sounds of Level 2 (UFLI lessons 35–53), in rhyme, with 11 pictures and a Words to look for page.

Cover: Tully the otter in the rain by a river, a smiling crescent moon above

Tully and the Moon’s Lost Button

Age 5 · Adventure · My Style, painterly

A rhyming story that stops twice for your child to choose what happens next.

Cover: Tully the otter holding up a striped stone in his round-windowed home

The Stone with the Longest Stripe

Age 9 · Chapter book · Dreamy Pastel

A longer adventure in 4 chapters, with 14 pictures.

Read-aloud picture books

Ages 5 and 6, read together, with a picture for every scene, in six illustration styles.

Front cover: Wren, a small girl in a yellow raincoat and red boots, walks out of a windmill past a torn kite

Wren and the Windmill Kite

Age 5 · Read aloud · My Style, painterly

Friendship, in rhyme, with 10 pictures. Starring Wren.

Front cover: the Professor, in a paint-splashed lab coat, in a study lined with shelves of files

The Professor and the Vanishing Notebooks

Age 6 · Read aloud · Storybook

Mystery, with 7 pictures. Starring The Professor.

Front cover: Princess Tamsin in a blue dress at a window, a castle and a crowd of villagers behind her at dusk

Princess Tamsin and the Stuck Drawbridge

Age 6 · Read aloud · Ghibli-Inspired

Fairy Tale, with 9 pictures. Starring Princess Tamsin.

Front cover: Tully the otter by a misty river

Tully and the Stone That Goes All the Way Round

Age 6 · Read aloud · Dreamy Pastel

Nature, in rhyme, with 9 pictures. Starring Tully.

Front cover: Nib, a copper robot with a dial for a face, beside a girl in a yellow raincoat

Nib and the Weather That Wasn’t

Age 6 · Read aloud · Retro Cartoon

Silly & Fun, with 8 pictures. Starring Nib.

Front cover: Fen, a purple dragon, resting a claw on a blue storybook on a mountain hillside

Fen and the Runaway Storybook

Age 6 · Read aloud · Ben-Day Dot

Adventure, with 9 pictures. Starring Fen.

In the app

What reading looks like

Real screens from the InkStak reader on a phone, showing the books above with their own pictures. Swipe, or tap the edge of the screen, to turn the page.

The InkStak library on a phone: example books as covers, each with its age and style
Your library: every book you make, with its cover.
The first page of Wren and the Windmill Kite in the reader: the title, Wren in the windmill, and the first verse
The first page of Wren and the Windmill Kite.
A page of Nib and the Weather That Wasn’t: Nib, Hattie and the baker at the kite festival, in Retro Cartoon
Nib and the Weather That Wasn’t, in Retro Cartoon.
A page of Fen and the Runaway Storybook: a gust carries Fen’s storybook away, in Ben-Day Dot
Fen and the Runaway Storybook, in Ben-Day Dot.
A page of Princess Tamsin and the Stuck Drawbridge: Tamsin at the great hinge in the moonlight, in Ghibli-Inspired
Princess Tamsin and the Stuck Drawbridge, in Ghibli-Inspired.
A page of The Professor and the Vanishing Notebooks: the Professor follows a trail of coloured thread, in Storybook
The Professor and the Vanishing Notebooks, in Storybook.
A page of Tully and the Stone That Goes All the Way Round: Tully and a heron by the willow, in Dreamy Pastel
Tully and the Stone That Goes All the Way Round, in Dreamy Pastel.
The last page of Wren and the Windmill Kite: Wren and Nell fly the kite at sunset, then the moral
The last page, with the story’s moral.

And as your child grows

The same reader holds every kind of book. These are the Tully books above, at three more levels.

The first page of Tully and the Red Rock, a Kid Reads story: its title, then the Words to look for, grouped by sound
A Kid Reads story opens with its Words to look for.
A page of Tully and the Red Rock: Tully hugs a big red rock, above two short sentences a beginner can sound out
Then short sentences a child can sound out at their level.
Tully and the Moon’s Lost Button stopped at a choice: what should Tully do?
An adventure stops for your child to choose.
The first page of The Stone with the Longest Stripe, a chapter book: its title, Chapter 1 and its first picture
A chapter book, with a button to jump between chapters.
Exports

Every export, from these books

Each picture below is a page from a real export of one of the books above, made smaller for the web.

A two-page spread from the KDP interior of Fen and the Runaway Storybook: the picture fills both pages with the words on it

Amazon KDP interior

A print-ready PDF in the trim size you choose, with bleed: 16 paperback and 5 hardcover sizes. In a picture book, every scene can be a full two-page spread with its words on the picture.

Free —Tokens —CreatorPublisher

From Fen and the Runaway Storybook.

The wraparound KDP cover of Nib and the Weather That Wasn’t: the back cover with its blurb, the spine and the front cover

Amazon KDP cover

One wraparound file: the back cover with a written blurb, the spine, and the front. The spine width is worked out from the page count. A setup sheet comes with it, with a description, keywords and categories to paste into KDP.

Free —Tokens —CreatorPublisher

From Nib and the Weather That Wasn’t.

A Print at Home page of Princess Tamsin and the Stuck Drawbridge: one picture above its words

Print at Home, PDF and Word

A cover, a title page, then one picture and its words on each page, to print or save as a PDF. The Word export has the same pages as a document you can edit.

FreeTokensCreatorPublisher

From Princess Tamsin and the Stuck Drawbridge.

A coloring page from Tully and the Stone That Goes All the Way Round: the picture redrawn as black outlines on white

Coloring pages

Every picture redrawn as black outlines on white, with the scene’s words underneath, so a child colors the pictures they already know.

Free —Tokens —CreatorPublisher

From Tully and the Stone That Goes All the Way Round.

Questions people ask

Yes. Each was written and illustrated in InkStak and exported with the app’s own exports. Open any of them in the app to check: they are shared in the InkStak Community and free to read.

No. The ten books on this page are open to every account, including a free one. The rest of the Community is for Creator and Publisher.

They are made the same way, in the same styles, with the same exports. Every story is new, so the words and pictures will be your own, and you can redraw any picture you want to change.

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