Custom Easter story book with child photo: your child and the Missing Egg

What happens in your child and the Missing Egg

1. Hen discovers that one egg is missing.
2. Your child finds a small mark on the kitchen floor.
3. The trail leads past boots and tools in the shed.
4. Your child searches carefully between the vegetable rows.
5. The egg is found safe and snug beneath a lettuce leaf.

How the first page could read

One bright Easter morning, Hen hurried across the kitchen floor, clucking softly. “My egg has rolled away,” she said. Your child looked beneath the table, behind the boots and beside the wooden spoon pot. “Let’s follow the little marks,” said your child. Together, they set off to search.

Your child’s name, look and little details replace these words, and the whole story is written for their age.

Why this story works

This is a calm Easter story for children aged three to five who enjoy looking closely, noticing clues and helping a friendly animal. The search has clear, familiar places to explore: a kitchen, a shed and a vegetable patch. Each stop gives your child a small task, from checking under a table to spotting a mark in the soil, so the plot is easy to follow at bedtime or before an Easter egg hunt. The missing egg is never in danger, and the ending is reassuring rather than surprising. A photo of your child becomes the basis for the child hero in a 32-page personalised picture book.

Reading it together

• Pause at each new location and ask where your child thinks the egg might have rolled next.
• Add your own Easter hunt afterwards by hiding a paper egg in each room named in the story.
• Use the vegetable patch page to talk about what might grow in a garden during spring.

Suggested art style: Storybook watercolour

Soft storybook watercolour gives the kitchen, shed and spring vegetable patch a warm, gentle feel. A sidekick idea: a softly clucking brown hen with a red scarf. You can pick any of the four styles and change the details in the form.