New · Tandem travel books
Every travel guide is written for a place. This one is written for your child.
Make real books about your trip, together: where you're going, the journey there, the packing list, and their own mini guidebook. Read them anywhere, even offline on the beach.
Real trips, real books
Four real books, free to read right now. No sign-up.
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Lola's Big Trip to Lake Garda
by Lola and family
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Yours will be about your trip, your child, and the things they love.
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Get your guidebooks · £3.99One-off payment. No auto-renew. Love it or your money back.
Take one home tonight.
Pick a book and we'll email you the whole thing. Read it at bedtime; see if it lands.
No spam. One book, one follow-up, that's it.
Four kinds of book. One trip.
Make as many of each as you like, for every trip you take this year.
A story set where you're going
Set in exactly where you're going. The castle you'll visit becomes the castle in the story, so your child walks in already knowing the place.
The journey book
A guide to your journey there. Plane, train, ferry or the long drive: getting there is part of the fun, and little people arrive ready for it.
The packing list
What to take, for what you're actually doing. A book that gets them ready, and gets the suitcase packed with less fuss.
Their own mini guide
A little guidebook for exactly where you're going, and what you like doing. Written at their reading level.
Get ready for the trip.
Children get more from a place when they know what to look for. Make the books together in the build-up and the anticipation becomes part of the trip: they'll spot the harbour from the book, ask about the volcano, hunt for the friendly goat.
Have a great time while you're there.
Make books before you go, while you're there, or once you're home. They read offline anywhere: the plane, the pool, the tent with no signal. Share them with the grandparents too.
Bring home stories that last.
Six weeks off can undo a term of reading progress, and books about their own holiday are the ones children actually want to read again. Build bedtimes that reflect on your day, and bring home a souvenir you'll be reading all year.
How it works
Making yours takes a few minutes, and you do it together.
Tell us about the trip.
Where you're going, who's going, and what your child is into. Dinosaurs, boats, playgrounds, whatever it is.
Pick the book you want.
A story set where you're going, a book to prepare you for the journey there, a packing list that matches your activities, or a personalised mini guidebook.
Read it together.
On the plane, on the beach, at bedtime. It reads offline, and you can order a hardcopy book if you like too.
Yes, there's AI in here. Here's exactly how we use it.
Someone could write a guidebook for a five-year-old called Finn, who loves dinosaurs and is going to Pembrokeshire on Tuesday. But nobody ever has, because it would take a fortnight and cost a fortune. That's the bit the AI does: it writes and illustrates one book, for one child, for one trip.*
*But you can make more than one book!
What it doesn't do is talk to your child. There's no chatbot, nothing open-ended, nothing for them to wander into on their own. You make the book together, you read it together, and then it's just a book you read on the train, waiting at the airport, or at bedtime in the hotel.
Built by experts. Safe by design.
Tandem is made by parents who are doctors and child psychologists, and backed by Alder Hey and Moorfields. Every book is written to your child's age and reading level, with multiple safety layers designed in, and always made for two: you and your child together.
Built by parents. Who are experts.
Doctors and child psychologists who are raising children of their own, backed by Alder Hey and Moorfields.
Multiple safety layers
Guardrails at every step, and you can preview the whole book before you read or share it.
No ads, nothing to scroll
No advertising, no in-app purchases aimed at children, and no feed to fall into.
Written to fit your child
Their age, their reading level, their interests. A book for a 3-year-old and a book for a 7-year-old read completely differently.
One little price for a big summer.
- Unlimited travel books, all year
- Four book types, freshly made for every trip you take
- Any destination, from Cornwall to the Costa del Sol.
- Every child in your family
- Read offline and share with family
One-off payment, never auto-renews. Every book you make is yours to keep and read forever, long after the year ends.
Not ready yet? Take a book with you.
Pick one of the four and we'll email it over, free. No card, no catch.
Loved by 40,000+ families.
Questions parents actually ask.
No, it's better than that. £3.99 unlocks a whole year of unlimited travel books, for every child in your family and every trip you take. It's a one-off payment and never auto-renews. Every book you make is yours to keep and read forever, long after the year ends.
Yes. Travel books are included in your subscription at no extra cost, so there's nothing to buy here. Just open the app and make one. The £3.99 pass is for families who don't subscribe yet.
Yes. You make the books online before (or during) the trip, and then can read offline anywhere: planes, ferries, campsites with no signal. You can also order hardback copies to be sent directly to you too.
That's kind of the point. Every book is made for your exact trip, not pulled off a shelf, so a tiny harbour village gets the same treatment as Paris.
Tandem is built by doctors and child psychologists and in partnership with Nesta, Alder Hey and Moorfields. The AI works within careful guardrails, there are no ads, and you preview every page before your child sees it. And Tandem is made for two: you create together, never the child alone.
Just tell us and we'll refund you in full, with no deadline to keep an eye on. We'd rather you tried it on a real trip and decided for yourselves.
Their holiday. Their book. Made together.
Wherever you're going this summer, read all about it.
Get your guidebooks · £3.99One-off payment. No auto-renew. Love it or your money back.