Hand-painted worlds cut from paper and gouache — the kind of book that gets read three times, then tucked under a pillow.
Every Storybloom title is hand-illustrated, printed on stone-milled paper, and sewn to lie flat in small hands.
A page from The Whale Who Collected Sunsets. Click the corner — or the button — to turn it.
Every evening, when the sky went soft and pink, the whale opened wide and swallowed the sunset whole.
— 14 —But sunsets, it turns out, are very hard things to keep for long…
— 17 —
And oh, how the little fish loved her for it.
— 15 —She kept them in her belly like little lanterns — so the small fish below would never swim home in the dark.
— 16 —printed at 200 gsm, so the colours stay honest
Storybloom is two illustrators, one kettle, and a suspicious amount of glue.
Paints the backgrounds, writes the last line first, and insists every book smell faintly of the sea.
Cuts every character from paper by hand, folds the dragons, and does the voices when we test them out loud.
"We only make a book if we'd want to read it a hundredth time. So far, so good."