Both brands make your child the hero of the book, in two different ways. At Hooray Heroes, you build the character from options (hair, skin tone, eyes and more) and the book follows one of its titles. At Looma Stories, each character is drawn from their photo, so your child recognizes themselves, and the story starts from your own idea. The story with the hardcover costs €28.98 before shipping at Looma Stories, against €40.95 for the Hooray Heroes Christmas hardcover in its Irish store, for 36 pages instead of 26. Hooray Heroes, for its part, is an established brand, founded in 2013, that lets you preview the whole book before paying.
Updated 18 October 2026
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These are the photos uploaded for Nora’s book: Nora, her brother Eli, her sister Willa and baby Poppy. Next to them, the cover of the book they became. Each one is redrawn in the chosen style and stays the same from page to page, across all 36 pages.
Nora
Eli
Willa
Poppy
A hardcover book for one child, prices in euros, without discount codes: Hooray Heroes from its Irish store, on its Christmas title (Merry Christmas, Kiddo) with 10 stories. The price shown is the hardcover alone: for Looma, the required story purchase is named beside it, for Hooray Heroes, the softcover price. "Not published" means the brand’s website does not give this fact.
Looma Stories draws each character from their photo, and you can adjust the result in a few words. Hooray Heroes works differently: you build the character from options such as hair, skin tone and eyes, without sending pictures.
No. The Hooray Heroes FAQ says there is no need to send pictures, because you personalize the characters yourself (https://hoorayheroes.com/en-ie/pages/faq). At Looma Stories, you upload a photo of each character, and the illustrations are created by AI from those photos.
Before shipping, the story and the hardcover cost €28.98 at Looma Stories, which calculates shipping at checkout. The Hooray Heroes Christmas hardcover with 10 stories costs €40.95 plus €6.99 standard shipping in its Irish store, and $39.99 in its US store.
36 pages at Looma Stories, 32 of them story. The Hooray Heroes Christmas title has 26 pages.
Yes. Looma Stories charges in euros and ships the hardcover to the UK and the US as well as across Europe, where delivery takes 10 to 14 working days. The eBook is ready as soon as you approve the story.
We read every fact on the brand’s official website, on the date shown. Customer reviews and ratings are not reproduced here: read them directly on review platforms. Spotted an error or a price change? Write to us and we will fix the table. To compare the illustrations, open sample books on both sites: Looma’s example books, with the photos each family uploaded (https://www.looma-stories.com/en/examples), and the full-book preview on each Hooray Heroes book page (https://hoorayheroes.com/en-ie/products/personalized-christmas-book).
