About Once Upon Us

The days are little. The stories aren’t.

Why we’re building Once Upon Us: personal picture books, small family moments and time reading together.

A small owl reads a book on a lantern-lit crescent moon.

Once Upon Us turns a day or an imagined adventure into an illustrated picture book to read together. A trip to the aquarium. A train ride. Learning to be gentle with someone smaller.

We’re building it around a simple hope: a familiar face in a story can make the ordinary feel worth remembering, and give a grown-up and a child a few more minutes together.

A small beginning

Once Upon Us is made by Mind On Fire LLC. We’re inviting families a few at a time, learning what works at bedtime and improving the web, iPhone and Mac experiences.

Honest about the making

AI helps write the words, paint the pictures and narrate the books. A grown-up makes the choices and reviews each result. Every child shown on this website is fictional.

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