Can You Save the World of Stories?

Selected by the Mondadori Group from 600+ publishing startups. Supported by the EU and our regional government. Born inside a publishing team with 100+ children's titles. Our first personalized book, “The Magic Night,” has been shipping to families since October 2025.

YOUR FAMILY IN THE BOOK

Choose the names and appearance of the characters, then build the adventure team around the children and the people they love. Create one hero or bring up to five characters into the same story. Each selected family member appears on the cover and throughout the adventure.

THE MOMENT THEY SAY: “THAT'S ME—AND THAT'S MY FAMILY!”

THE STORY

The room begins to shake. The pages glow. Out jumps Otto—a magical rabbit, wizard and guardian of the World of Stories. Chaos has moved characters, creatures, and objects into the wrong tales, and now it's getting dangerously close to the real world.

OTTO CANNOT STOP IT ALONE. TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

HOW TO PLAY

Follow Otto's clues, explore each illustrated scene, find the characters and objects moved by Chaos, and restore every story. Race to find the answer first or work as one family team.

A shared activity for parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and friends: reading aloud, comparing ideas, searching carefully, celebrating discoveries.

A personal gift from parents, grandparents, relatives, or friends—created around the child and the people they love.

Our dream is to create books that help children feel involved, capable, and important inside the story—while giving families more reasons to read, play, and spend meaningful time together. We want each book to become a memory that stays with the family long after childhood.

MEET THE CREATORS

Each iStory Book  brings together publishing, illustration, writing, editorial design, child-development insight, technology, and careful production. iStory started with twin brothers Nicola and Francesco Grasso—who grew up sharing everything, especially books—and became a benefit corporation with one main purpose: bring reading at the centre of family acitivities.

Nicola Grasso — Co-founder. Nicola is one of the twin brothers behind iStory. He leads the product and this campaign, turning a lifelong love of books into a story built around your family. 

Francesco Grasso — Co-founder. Francesco is Nicola's twin and iStory's other founder, leading publishing and operations—the editorial work and getting every personalized book made and delivered. 

Francesco Riganti — Senior advisor. Francesco Riganti guides iStory's strategy and helps the team navigate publishing and the launch. 

Kelly McKain — the best-selling author of over 70 books for children and young adults, with her stories translated into 25 languages and read by young dreamers around the world. She has a gift for weaving warm, uplifting tales that help children understand their feelings, chase away worries, and face life's challenges with courage and heart. When she's not spinning new stories, she loves natural horsemanship, yoga, dance, and wandering in nature—and she absolutely adores connecting with her young readers!

Anastasia Cartovenco — better known as KarminaArt—is an illustrator and graphic designer who has spent over 10 years sprinkling a little magic into children's books, games, apps, and brands. With a palette full of vibrant colors, intricate details, and enchanting sparkle, she brings whimsical characters and dreamy worlds to life. She lives to create art that sparks curiosity, wonder, and imagination.

Copigraf (Printing Partner) — Where Are You? is printed by Copigraf, our long-time printing partner in Italy. Together, we bring each personalized book to life: our own software places your family into the artwork, Copigraf prints it, and every single copy is checked by hand before it ships—one copy at a time.

Technical Team — A small in-house team of engineers who built iStory's personalization technology from scratch—no off-the-shelf tools, no shortcuts. They work side by side with the illustrators, editors, and print team, and they've refined the system that makes each unique edition possible.

Design and Editorial Team — Seven people take the story and the drawings and turn them into a book. Inna, Natasha, Richell, and Jhoanna build every layout and every character variation; if a hat sits two millimetres off, they'll spot it before you do. Arianne and Hannah read every line, in every language, more times than anyone should—missions that make sense, jokes that land, not a comma out of place. And Lilla, our child psychologist, reads the story before your child does, asking the questions that matter at bedtime: is this exciting, or a little too much? The same team behind Special Art Books (500+ children's titles).

For more than eight months, our team has developed the story, missions, illustrations, layouts, and character variations required to let different families enter the same adventure. iStory's proprietary software combines the selected names, appearances, and family cast into each unique edition. The editorial, technical, and print-quality teams then check the result—one copy at a time—before delivery.

Choose the edition that fits your family or gift. The story and personalization stay the same; the format changes how the adventure is delivered and kept.

WHAT YOU HELP US BUILD

The story, principal worlds, and core creative work are well advanced. Campaign support completes the remaining personalization work, final testing, quality assurance, and delivery of the first Kickstarter edition. Everything past the goal makes the book bigger—for everyone: more languages (backers vote which comes first), new family configurations, new adventures.

BACK THE FIRST ADVENTURE. HELP SHAPE WHAT COMES NEXT.

Join Otto, enter the book, and help restore every story—while giving the children and people you love a personalized adventure to share and remember.