Both brands draw your child from their photos and can start from your own story idea. The difference is in the rest: at Looma Stories, you adjust each character in a few words, you choose a square or portrait format, and the story with the hardcover costs €28.98 before shipping, against at least €39.90 for a 10-chapter Real Big Stories hardcover. Real Big Stories, for its part, shows a free preview before you pay, prints its books in France and offers a longer 48-page version.
Updated 19 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, from the Real Big Stories international store in euros, delivered to Ireland. Public prices without discount codes. The price shown is the hardcover alone: for Looma, the required story purchase is named beside it, for Real Big Stories, the price starts with the 10-chapter book, with the 20-chapter one beside it. On the day we checked, the 10-chapter price shown by Real Big Stories changed from one visit to the next, from €39.90 to €49.90: we keep the lowest, and the price in the basket is the one that counts. "Not published" means the brand’s website does not give this fact.
Looma Stories also draws your child from their photos, from your own story idea or a guided theme. On top, you can adjust each character in a few words and choose a square or portrait format and one of 9 illustration styles, for €28.98 before shipping.
Before shipping, the story and the hardcover cost €28.98 at Looma Stories, which calculates shipping at checkout. At Real Big Stories, the 10-chapter hardcover costs at least €39.90, or €64.90 with 20 chapters, plus €9.90 home delivery to Ireland (€4.90 to a pickup point).
Yes. The Real Big Stories legal notice names The Farel Company as its publisher, and its French version is Le Petit Héros, on lepetitheros.com (https://www.realbigstories.com/legal, https://www.lepetitheros.com/legal).
At Looma Stories, yes: you describe the change in a few words (hair, eyes, clothes), the character is updated, then every page they appear on can be redrawn. Each edit counts toward the 12 included regenerations. The Real Big Stories help center says hair and eye colour can’t be changed in the illustrations.
Real Big Stories states about 2 to 3 weeks for tracked standard delivery, production included, and express within 8 days of the order. Looma states 10 to 14 working days in Europe, printing included. At both brands, the digital version arrives before the book.
Its price page lists the United States, Australia and New Zealand as “Coming soon”, and delivers across the European Union, to Switzerland and Canada (https://www.realbigstories.com/pricing-and-shipping). Looma Stories charges in euros and ships the hardcover to the US and the UK as well as across Europe.
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 the sample books on both sites: Looma’s example books, with the photos each family uploaded (https://www.looma-stories.com/en/examples), and the creations shown on the Real Big Stories website (https://www.realbigstories.com/examples).
