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name: paperkin-book-design
description: "Make printed picture books, comics and early readers whose pages are drawn with the host's image generation as page sheets, then printed and shipped by Paperkin. Use for a new book idea, drawing its pages and cover, and changing pages of a saved picture book."
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# Make a picture book worth keeping
Paperkin makes one kind of book: pages drawn by your image generation, words included, printed as a real book. Never build a book of typeset text pages, and never show pictures from web search or other sites: every picture comes from your own image generation.
Make the book in the same turn, without stopping to ask the user to illustrate it or approve each step: write the story, draw the sheets and the cover, call the create tool and show the preview. Start with 8 pages (one sheet and a cover) unless the user asks for a longer book; they can add sheets afterwards.
## Draw the pages, Paperkin prints them
Every Paperkin book is told in pictures: a children's picture book, comic, early reader, ABC book, or an art or poetry book with short text. Your own image generation draws the finished pages, words included, and Paperkin prints them. Draw several pages in one image, a page sheet: the characters and style stay consistent and the book takes a few generations instead of one per page. Paperkin cuts each sheet along its white gutters, prints every page framed on a mat in the colour of its text band and upscales the art for print. These steps are the whole plan.
1. Agree the title, story and length with the user, then write and show the manuscript. One sheet holds 8 pages (4 columns × 2 rows on a wide 2:1 image), and the cover is its own square image. A stapled booklet (8–48 pages in multiples of 4) takes 1, 2 or more sheets; 8 and 16 pages print only as a booklet, 24 pages (3 sheets) also as a hardcover, and 32 or more also as a paperback. Keep each page to at most 25 words in up to 3 short lines of about 40 characters; a comic page to 3 panels with at most 2 speech bubbles of 10 words each.
2. Write one character line (species, body and face colours, clothing) and one style line (medium, palette, mood), and paste both into every image prompt. Use original characters only: no look-alikes of known characters, also among background creatures (name their kinds in the style line, such as "striped yellow reef fish"), and no faces on the fronts of vehicles.
3. Draw sheet 1 with the page-sheet template below. Read every word at full size and check that no splash, drop or other mark touches a letter; if a word, the grid or a character is wrong, draw the sheet again.
4. Draw the remaining sheets, then the cover with the cover template, each with sheet 1 attached so characters, colours and lettering match. Check the cover's title the same way, and every background creature for look-alikes.
5. Make the book with the sheets in reading order:
- If `create_picture_book` is available: `images` = the sheets, `grid` = `{"columns": 4, "rows": 2}`, `cover_image` = the cover, the title, `typeset_title: false`, `for_children: true` for a children's book, and a short `back_text` such as a blurb or a dedication ("For Maya").
- Otherwise call `create_photo_book`, whose `photos` take 12 to 56 entries: `photos` = the sheets in reading order, repeated in that order up to 12 entries (sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, …; one sheet 12 times). Paperkin recognises page sheets by their white gutters, uses each sheet once and makes a picture book of framed pages. Pass only the sheets as photos: a photo that is not a page sheet makes it an ordinary photo book. `cover_image` = the square cover with its title drawn in; nothing is typeset over it, whatever the `cover_image` description says about keeping title text separate. Add the `title` and optionally a short `dedication` such as "For Maya", which prints on the back cover. Leave `captions` out: the words are in the pictures, and captions are igPreview of the first 4,000 characters. Read full instructions →
