Their Story
All stories have a beginning. This is ours.
Years ago, my husband caught our daughter on film eating a gobstopper – 15 photos taken over 24 minutes and 10 seconds. The photos were arranged in a book and given to my daughter as a special gift. It was love at first sight. My daughter slept with it, ate with it, took it on road trips. Love-worn and long-admired, the book slowly fell apart, just like the fur on the Velveteen Rabbit.
Our lives are defined by stories – stories of childhood, of triumph, of loss. Even wild stories of the imagination. When a child pretends to be a pirate or a princess or a fairy, she truly believes she has changed, become part of a different world for that moment in time. She has invented a new story of her own.
It is in this world – one of imagination, inspiration and gifts of the heart – in which flattenme was born. We seek not only to spark the imagination of a child, but to take a story which starts as a moment in time – a photograph – and then becomes something entirely new.
So, storytelling first. And then, what? Wonderment and delight is not the sole domain of children. We all have the chance to find magic within ourselves, allowing our own stories to unfold. As Arthur Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Stay tuned.
My Review:
I was given the opportunity to review a book from FlattenMe. I absoutelly love the idea of the book being personalized with a picture. Not only that, but it is also personalized with a name. All they needed was a picture and they cropped it to fit. It was easy and fast. They did a wonderful job. I would never have been able to do anything like this. These are a few of my favorite pages:
This is the front.
This is the "H" page. I love the pictures!
"Shake it Dakota" She is in dancing school and loves this..
After A-Z, the book does numbers 1-10.
This is pages 9 & 10. I loved that each number had that many faces of the recipient. She loved counting herself. This is also a sturdy hardcover book and it is a treasure to have for years t come. I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
There is also a great giveaway Here.
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