Full-bleed art on every spread. Text that sits in the safe zone. Fixed-layout EPUB for Kindle Kids. Square or landscape, hardback or paperback — we format picture books for ages 0-7 the way real picture-book publishers do.
Drop your manuscript and we run the same 30+ checks Amazon does, line by line, in under a minute. You get a clear /100 score, every failure point flagged, and the exact fix for each one. Whether you book us, do it yourself, or hire someone else — running this first means you don't pay for a service you didn't need.
"Will my picture book pass KDP review?"
Accepts .docx, .pdf, .epub · up to 200 MB · files never stored, deleted after 24h
Run the KDP Readiness Score →The format choice that matters most. We can deviate if your project needs it — but here's the working benchmark.
Acceptable alternatives: 8.25×8.25 in or 8×10 in (landscape) · all are KDP-approved trim sizes
Square 8.5×8.5 is the dominant picture-book trim — gives full-bleed illustrations a generous canvas, works in a child's lap, fits the standard nursery shelf. If your art is landscape-shaped we'll route you to 8×10 portrait or 8.25×8.25 landscape with hardback option.
Picture books are 100% image-led — every spread is treated as a 300 DPI plate, bleed-checked, safe-zone-validated. This is the £219 Picture Book package.
The six things that make picture book formatting different from generic novel formatting.
0.125-inch bleed on all four edges of every page. Text kept inside the 0.25-inch safe zone — never within the gutter. Every spread treated as a single composition, not two pages.
KDP fixed-layout output for Kindle Kids and Kindle Fire. Region magnification on text panels. Read-aloud audio supported if you want it (extra).
Most picture books sell in hardback. We calibrate the cover wrap for KDP's case-laminate spec (not paperback) and supply the dust-jacket file separately if you want both.
Two-line title-page credit (Written by / Illustrated by), back-cover bio panels for both, copyright credit to illustrator. Trad picture-book convention.
Page-turn timing matters in picture books. We don't change your words, but we'll flag any spread where the page-turn reveal lands flat — so you can adjust before we typeset.
Print uses CMYK soft-proofed against KDP's color profile. EPUB uses sRGB at higher saturation. Both built from the same illustrator master files.
Whatever the book type, this is what every order includes.
KDP-compliant margins, mirrored gutters scaled to your page count, 0.125-inch bleed where needed, embedded fonts, 300 DPI image pre-flight, semantic page-break logic.
Optimised for every Kindle device including phone reading. Clean chapter recognition, working drop caps, scene-break ornaments, properly-linked TOC, semantic ordered/unordered lists.
Spine width auto-calculated from your final page count. Cover supplied to KDP-template spec for paperback, hardback or both. Full-bleed art tested against KDP's print profile.
Side-by-side viewer to comment on specific pages. Most books need none; complex non-fiction sometimes needs both. Additional rounds £19 each.
If KDP rejects your file for a formatting reason, we fix it free. We've never had a rejection — but the guarantee is the principle.
You send a Word file (or PDF, Google Docs, RTF, ODT, EPUB, plain text). We send back finished files. No software to install, no learning curve.
From £69 for print-ready PDF. £119 for print + Kindle. Picture-book and complete packages from £179.
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