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The personalised reading platform for every child

Every child has a reading fingerprint. Pickatale is the only platform that reads it.

Pickatale builds a library around each child, not the other way round. Real books from world-class publishers, matched to what they love and how they read. And when they are ready for something no library has, they can create it themselves.

2,500+ books
World-class publishers
Privacy-first
No ads, ever
20+ countries
14 years building
A child reading a Pickatale book
Curriculum aligned
Mapped to national curricula across 38+ markets
Loved by families
Thousands of stories created every day
10,000+
Schools worldwide
20+
Countries
14 years
Building for readers
4.8/5
From 500+ reviews
Books from
  • Oxford University Press
  • Sweet Cherry Publishing
  • Storytime
  • Super Simple
  • Cricket Media
+ more
Recognised by
  • TIME World's Top EdTech Companies 2024
  • UNICEF Learning Cabinet
  • UKLA Reading for Pleasure Quality Mark
  • Reading for Pleasure with The Open University
  • GESS Education Awards Finalist 2023
The reading fingerprint

No two readers are the same. Their library should not be either.

Choose a reader to see Pickatale build their world.

Four years old, and everything is a puppy or a duck. Here is what comes next.

Your child’s data builds their library. It never leaves Pickatale.
That is the fingerprint. It updates every time they read.

One fingerprint. Three ways to use it.

Read, Create and Assess all run off the same reading fingerprint, so what a child does in one shows up in the others.

Read

A shelf built for one child. Levelled books from world-class publishers, matched to what they love and how they read.

Create

Any idea becomes a real illustrated book, with a cover, chapters and pictures of its own.

Assess

A gentle check-in after each book, so progress stays visible without sitting a test.

Pickatale Create

Some children do not just want to read a story. They want to be in one.

With Create, any child can turn their idea into a real illustrated book in seconds.* Their characters, their world. And for teachers, any topic becomes a levelled story for every reader in the class.

Teachers: upload a lesson plan or topic and get illustrated, levelled stories for the whole class.

Your first created book is free, and we will email it to you.

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The Brave Dinosaur
Written by your child
Pickatale
See how Create works
My daughter doesn't ask if she can read a book anymore. She asks if she can make one.
A Pickatale parent