Guide Story Books

AI Story Books

AI Story Books turn an idea — or your own material — into an illustrated picture book. Scholarly writes a warm, age-appropriate story, illustrates every page in a consistent art style with the same characters throughout, and delivers a page-by-page book in your library you can read, share, and reuse.

Story Books are a great fit for tutoring a young learner, building a fun explainer for a hard topic, or turning a chapter into something a child can actually sit through.

Creating a Story Book

Open Story book from the New menu, under More, or from More tools in Home's tool row. The create modal works the same way as Scholarly's other AI tools:

  • Prompt AI — describe a story in your own words. No source file needed.
  • Upload Files — drop in a PDF, Word doc, PowerPoint, or text file and Scholarly writes the story around that material.
  • Library — pick something you've already uploaded.
  • Google Drive — pull a file straight from your Drive without downloading and re-uploading. See Connections.

For PDF sources, expand the file to pick a page range — useful when only one chapter should become the story.

You can also start from a folder — anything you create from inside a folder is filed there automatically. See Folders and Organization.

Art Styles

Pick the visual style your book is illustrated in:

  • Classic Storybook — Warm, rounded, picture-book illustrations.
  • Bright & Playful — Bold colors and high-energy characters.

The AI keeps the same characters and look across every page so the book reads as one piece, not a series of unrelated images.

Customization Options

  • Custom instructions — Free-text field to steer the story (lead character, age range, tone, moral, page count).
  • Customization Profile — Apply a saved Customization Profile to reuse instructions and visual references across every story book you make.
  • AI model — Paid users can swap in a different model if they want a different writing style. See Choosing an AI Model.

What You Get

Each finished book includes:

  • A cover page with the title and a hero illustration.
  • A page-by-page narrative with text and an illustration on every page.
  • A consistent set of characters drawn the same way throughout.

The book opens in a built-in reader. Flip through with arrow keys, tap to advance on mobile, or scroll the whole thing on one page.

Length and Generation

Story Books take a few minutes to generate — illustrating every page is heavier than writing a study guide or a deck. You can close the tab and come back; Scholarly finishes the book in the background and surfaces it in your library when it's ready. See Background Tasks.

If a longer story doesn't finish in one go on a particularly long ask, the AI now adapts: it gives you the best complete book your source can support rather than timing out.

Sharing and Downloading

Open the book's menu to:

  • Share the book with anyone via a link (great for sending to family members).
  • Open in a new tab for reading distraction-free.
  • Delete or move to a folder.

Story Books live alongside your other content — search for them in the Command Palette or pin them on the home page.

Tips

  • The more specific your custom instructions, the more on-target the story. "A 6-year-old who learns about photosynthesis through a friendly leaf named Mossy" beats "a story about plants."
  • Reuse a Customization Profile when you're building a series — every book in the series can share guidance and a look.
  • Story Books are great for teaching adults too, especially for topics where a friendly framing helps. Bumping up the reading level in your instructions makes the writing match.
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