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Handwriting Storybook

Ask for a storybook. Get a brand-new story as a printable book that a child traces, finishes and colors in.

Download a sample book (PDF)How to installView on GitHub
Storybook cover: The Case of the Missing Meatloaf, with pencil-sketch characters to colorStorybook page: dotted story text to trace around a cartoon, a writing prompt and a vocabulary word

What it makes

A new story every time

No idea needed. Each book is a funny, school-appropriate story: a detective notebook, a space-cadet log, a pet's diary and more.

Trace on real ruled lines

The story is printed in dotted letters on college-ruled paper, with every line on a rule, like real handwriting practice.

Write, draw, learn a word

Each page has a YOUR TURN writing prompt with a traced sentence starter, an optional DRAW IT box and a WORD WIZARD vocabulary word.

Pencil art to color in

Every page has an original pencil-sketch cartoon that matches the story. The cover has the cast to color and a name line.

How it works

  1. 1

    Ask

    Ask Claude for a storybook. Add a theme, an age or a page count if you want.

  2. 2

    Claude builds it

    Claude writes the story, draws each page, typesets the PDF and checks every page.

  3. 3

    Print

    Print at 100% scale on Letter paper, then trace, write and color.

Look inside a sample

This is a real book from the prompt “Make a handwriting storybook.” with nothing else added. It has 15 pages on Letter paper with college ruling (9/32 in), written at a grade 5–7 reading level. Ask for roomier lines or a younger reader if you need them.

Sample cover: The Case of the Missing Meatloaf, with characters to color and a name lineCover · open full sizeSample story page: dotted diary text to trace beside a pencil cartoon, a YOUR TURN prompt and a WORD WIZARD wordStory page · open full sizeSample page with a DRAW IT box, a writing prompt and a vocabulary wordDraw-it page · open full sizeSample closing page: the end of the story with a final writing and drawing taskClosing page · open full size

Read every book before a child uses it. The automatic checks catch layout problems, such as text off a line. They do not check every word choice. Review before use

Download the full sample (PDF, 6 MB)

Try asking

  • “Make a handwriting storybook.”
  • “Make a storybook for my 8-year-old who loves cats. Roomier lines, 10 pages.”
  • “Another one, but as a space-cadet log.”

Get it

Install for Claude Code

For people comfortable with developer tools. Your computer needs XeLaTeX, Python with Playwright, poppler and ImageMagick. A setup check lists anything missing.

/plugin marketplace add skalyanaraaman/plugins
/plugin install handwriting-storybook@spark-labs

Claude app support coming soon

In review

It is in review for the Claude directory. After approval you can add it in the Claude app with one click, with nothing to install.

Spark Labs does not receive your prompts or generated books. Your AI provider (Anthropic, for Claude) processes your conversation under its own privacy policy. Privacy

Free for families, teachers and schools. For commercial use, contact hello@pori.dev.

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