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Hi — we're a small studio. We make every book.

Not a content farm, not a template engine, not a generator with a logo slapped on it. When you order a Canto book, real people ask about the one you love, write their story from scratch, and art-direct every page until it looks like them — their home, their humour, their cat.

We work from Hong Kong. Sabo, the little aviator cat gliding around this site, came out of one of those books: a real, slightly grumpy house cat who got suited up as a fighter pilot because that's who he obviously was. That's the job — noticing who someone obviously is, and putting it on paper.

You'll see everything before it prints. If a page isn't right, tell us and we'll fix it ourselves — as many times as it takes. Free. We'd rather redraw a spread than ship a book that almost lands.

Sabo, our aviator-cat mascot, from one of the books
Sabo — he started as one customer's house cat.

How Sabo went from house cat to fighter pilot.

  1. One snapshot from his owner's phone.
    1. Their photoOne snapshot from his owner's phone.
  2. Redrawn and corrected until it's obviously him.
    2. The characterRedrawn and corrected until it's obviously him.
  3. Then he takes off in his own book.
    3. The pageThen he takes off in his own book.

Why “Canto”?

A canto is a chapter of a long poem — and in Cantonese, our home language here in Hong Kong, we write it 詠你: an ode to you. Every book is exactly that. One person, sung about properly, in a chapter of their own.

Written, drawn and checked by hand · Hong Kong

Who's it for? What's it about?

A partner Your kids A friend's kid's birthday Parents & grandparents A best friend Their pet New baby Birthdays Anniversaries Graduation Retirement A trip you took together Uni / college days High school memories The friend who has the best stories
Parents & grandparents A best friend Their pet New baby Birthdays Anniversaries Graduation Retirement A trip you took together Uni / college days High school memories The friend who has the best stories A partner Your kids A friend's kid's birthday

Talk to the person who'll make it.