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Build your child's book

A story written around your child's specific experience — their name, their family, their journey. Clinically informed, deeply personal, and made just for them.

Tell us about your child

We review every submission. Your topic helps us decide what to build first.

From your child's life to their story

Every WithBetty book follows a four-stage clinical framework — and is personalized so your child sees themselves on every page.

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Step 1

Choose a topic

Pick the experience that matches your child's situation. Each book is grounded in clinical expertise for that specific topic.

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Step 2

Build your child's story

Your child's name, age, family, and identity shape every page. Representation that goes all the way down.

Step 3

Preview it together

See how your child's details flow into the narrative — their name in every line, their family in every scene.

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Step 4

Receive their book

A fully personalized, clinically informed book — printed, bound, and made for the child it was written for. Only them.

Why WithBetty is different

Stories built on two unbreakable commitments

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Identity & Representation

The child on page one is unmistakably them

Research on therapeutic narrative is clear: the more a child sees themselves in a story, the more deeply it lands. WithBetty personalization goes beyond a name — it reflects a child's full identity.

  • Name, age, pronouns & family structure
  • Race, ethnicity, skin tone & hair texture
  • Cultural context & family language
  • Caregiver names, relationships & roles
  • Situation-specific details shaped by the child's experience
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Clinical & Community Input

Developed with the people who know children best

Every WithBetty book is co-developed with clinical specialists and community reviewers who know the specific experience a child is living — ensuring accuracy, warmth, and genuine cultural resonance.

  • Pediatric psychologists & oncology social workers
  • Grief counselors & child life specialists
  • Community reviewers from each cultural context
  • Parents and caregivers with lived experience
  • Reviewed against the With Me Framework at every stage

Books for the experiences children live through

Every book is grounded in the With Me Framework™ and developed with clinical input. These are the topic areas we're building first — shaped by what families tell us they need most.

🎗 Health & Medical
When my body needs extra care

For children navigating illness, hospitalization, chronic conditions, or a new diagnosis — a story that says: you are more than what's happening to your body.

I Understand I Belong I Can I Live With
💛 Parent Health
When a parent is sick

For children whose parent is facing illness — a story that gives language to fear, and reminds them that love is the one thing illness can never touch.

I Understand I Belong I Can I Live With
💜 Grief & Loss
When someone I love is gone

Grief doesn't end — it changes. A story that helps children understand that missing someone is how we keep loving them, forever.

I Understand I Belong I Can I Live With
🏠 Family Change
When my family looks different

A child learns that family comes in many shapes — and that love is the constant, no matter how things change.

I Understand I Belong I Can I Live With
🧩 Neurodiversity
My brain works differently — and that's something

A celebration of a child's unique way of seeing and being in the world — building genuine pride in who they are.

I Understand I Belong I Can I Live With
💬 Your topic
Don't see your child's experience?

We're actively building our library based on what families need. Register your interest above — your topic helps us decide what to build next.

The With Me Framework™

Every book follows a therapeutic arc —
written in the child's own voice

Developed with child psychologists and grief specialists, the With Me Framework moves a child from confusion toward integration — in language they can hold, in a story that reflects exactly who they are.

Stage 1
I Understand

Something hard is happening. This stage gives the child honest, age-appropriate language for what is real — without minimizing or overwhelming.

Stage 2
I Belong

I am not the only one. The child finds themselves in community — with others who have faced something similar, and a world that holds them.

Stage 3
I Can

I have agency. This stage builds coping — giving children concrete tools, language, and small acts of strength rooted in their own personality.

Stage 4
I Live With

This experience is part of my story — not all of it. The child integrates their experience into a coherent sense of self, without being defined by it.