Publisher creates personalised book for terminally ill kids

Publisher creates personalised book for terminally ill kids

Few activities provide as much escape as reading. So Ventorros Press has decided to create personalised books for terminally ill children.

Ventorros Press wants to create personalized books for terminally ill children. (Rawpixel pic)
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Few activities provide as much escape as reading. So Ventorros Press has decided to create personalised books for terminally ill children.

The children’s publisher hopes to raise funds for the project through a Kickstarter campaign, open until Dec 27.

Ventorros Press has set itself the goal of raising £10,000 to finance these personalised books.

Each book will feature the terminally ill child for whom it is intended, in order to make him or her feel extra “special,” according to the British publisher.

Parents will also be able to provide the publisher with personal information about the future owner of the book, such as the names of their friends, family members or even their pet.

The goal? To take these children on “an incredibly exciting adventure, away from their beds to magical new lands where anything might possibly happen.”

This project is inspired by “I Give You the Moon” by the author and illustrator Ffion Jones, which Ventorros published last November.

The book follows the adventures of Baran, an eight-year-old boy with a rare form of cancer, and his younger sister, Leyla.

Fflion Jones wrote it especially for the two children, who each received a copy before Baran’s death.

“We feel it’s a wonderful way to keep Baran’s memory alive. He was a very special boy, not just to us as his family, but also to all who met him or heard about him,” the children’s mother, Annabel Akarca, told the Bolton News.

Graham Mulvein, co-director of Ventorros Press, hopes that this new initiative will bring “a little sunshine” to the lives of terminally ill children and their families.

“We propose to employ the services of some of the very best children’s storytellers and illustrators around, to create personalised stories that will empower these sick children and will create wonderful diversions that will cause them to escape their surroundings,” he explains in a video presentation of the project on Kickstarter.

Parents will receive a free digital copy of the book dedicated to their child. According to The Bookseller, the publishing house aims to create about 15 personalized books if it can raise £10,000 on Kickstarter.

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