Children have amazing imaginations and it is always best to encourage them. They will lap up any kind of story, no matter what medium it is told through – television shows, cartoons, comic books, children’s stories, nursery rhymes, fairy tales – kids are thoroughly taken in by all of them, and this is partly because they like to imagine themselves being part of such a story.

If this is the case with your children and you want to encourage them in this regard, then you can make story time even more fun by buying them a book in which they are the main character.

These books make up one of the best little personalised gifts for a child. The story will already have been written, with a little boy or a little girl taking the lead role in the events that take place, but when you make your order, you can add your child’s name to the character.

Your children will love to hear the story being read, following it with the help of the illustrations in the book, picturing themselves as the heroes and heroines of the action. They also make great, nostalgic family mementoes when your children have grown up.