A rhyming friendship story for ages 4 to 7, written and illustrated in InkStak and exported every way it offers: a print-ready Amazon KDP interior and wraparound cover with its setup sheet, a print-at-home PDF, a Word document and colouring pages. These are the real files, made smaller for the web.
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Wren, one of InkStak’s starter characters, finds a torn kite in an old windmill, mends it, and asks a shy girl named Nell to help her fly it. It’s about ten minutes long, written in rhyme, with a picture for every scene.
The KDP export makes the two files Amazon asks for. The interior is 24 pages at 8.5″ × 8.5″ with bleed: a title page, a copyright page, then each scene as a full two-page spread with its words on the picture.
The cover is one wraparound file: the back cover with its blurb, the spine, and the front. Its spine width is worked out from the page count and paper.
With the KDP export comes a setup sheet: everything to paste into KDP’s book details, written for this book.
| Subtitle | A Rhyming Story of Mending, Friendship, and Trying Something New |
|---|---|
| Series | Wren’s Little Adventures |
| Keywords | rhyming picture book about making friends; bedtime story for shy kids; kindergarten read aloud kindness; encouragement book for preschoolers; fixing and mending story for kids; gift book for 5 year old girl; gentle story about trying new things |
| Categories | Friendship · Friendship, Social Skills & School Life · Stories in Verse |
| Ages | 4 to 7 (Preschool to Grade 2) |
How the KDP export works: making a children’s book for Amazon KDP, and the step-by-step publishing guide.
The Print / Save PDF export lays the same story out for a home printer: a cover page, a title page, then one picture and its words on each page. The Word Document export has the same pages, with page numbers, as a file you can open and change.
The Colouring Book export redraws every picture as black-and-white line art with the scene’s words underneath, so the child colours in the illustrations they already know.
More about coloring pages from your stories.
Wren, a small girl in a yellow raincoat and red boots, loves exploring the sleepy windmill on the hill. One sunny morning, she finds a forgotten kite with a tear in its wing, tucked away in the dust. With her satchel of folded paper and a careful pencil, Wren sets out to make it right. But a kite needs a friend to fly it. Who will Wren find to share the breeze?
Wren climbed up to the windmill door. She paced the steps: one, two, three, four. Inside, in the dust and the sunbeam's glow, lay a kite with a tear and a tail hanging low.
'Poor kite,' said Wren, with a gentle sigh. 'I'll mend you so you can fly high!' She took up the kite in her two careful hands and tucked it beside her paper maps and plans.
On the windmill floor, she measured the tear. Her pencil stub counted, with the most gentle care. She cut a new patch from a sheet of bright red, then tied on a ribbon of string for the thread.
She wove up the tail with a bow, bright and neat. The kite looked brand-new, from its top to its feet! 'It's ready!' said Wren. 'But I'd like a friend to help me, so this fun day has no end.'
Down the hill sat Nell, by the garden gate, her hat pulled down low, looking small as she ate. 'Come fly my kite,' said Wren. 'It's mended and new.' 'Oh,' whispered Nell, 'but I don't know what to do.'
'I might do it wrong,' Nell said, tucking her chin. 'You're not wrong,' said Wren. 'We'll just give it a spin! All you need is to try.' Nell took a breath and looked up with a smile. 'Alright,' she said. 'I'll try for a while.'
They climbed to the field where the tall grasses sway. The breeze smelled of clover and warm summer hay. Wren gave Nell the string with a gentle hand. 'Hold tight,' she said softly. 'I'll help you stand.'
Nell ran with the kite, her feet light and quick. She let go at the top with a sweet little flick. Up, up went the kite, so happy and high! 'You did it!' cried Wren. 'Look! It's in the sky!'
'I did it?' said Nell, with her eyes shining bright. 'You did it! You launched that kite to a wonderful height!' said Wren with delight. The two sat side by side, in the soft summer breeze, and watched the red tail dance high over the trees.
As the sun sank low and the sky glowed pink, they wound up the string, with a happy wink. 'Same time tomorrow?' asked Nell with a grin. 'Yes!' laughed Wren. 'Let the next fun begin!'
When friends try together, even a shy heart can help a kite touch the sky.
Yes. It was written and illustrated in InkStak and exported with the app’s own exports. The pictures on this page are its real pages, made smaller for the web.
Yes. Every export uses the story’s own illustrations, enlarged where print needs it. The Colouring Book export redraws them as outlines.
Yes, on the Creator and Publisher plans. See the KDP export and how to publish on KDP, including the questions KDP asks about AI-generated content.
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