Kids Story Video

What you're buying: a download package (skill instructions + Python scripts) that runs on your own computer inside your own AI agent — it is not a cloud service.
You need: an AI agent that supports skills (e.g. Claude Code or Codex) — its subscription or API costs are yours; Python 3.9+ and ffmpeg.
Third-party services: Pollinations.ai illustrations (free tier: small watermark; optional paid key) and Microsoft edge-tts narration (free, internet needed).

Make your child the hero of tonight's bedtime story — as a narrated video and a printable picture book.

What you get

• 🎬 Story video: 16:9 (TV / tablet) or 9:16 (phone) with picture-book illustrations, a gentle narrator, large subtitles, a music-box lullaby, a title card and a "Good night" ending
• 📖 Printable A4 picture book (PDF): cover ("A story for ___"), one illustration plus large text per page, and an ending page with the story's lesson
• 📝 Subtitle file (.srt)

Example

Input: Xiao Yu, age 5, scared of the dark, loves the moon →
a 44-second video with 5 illustrated pages, plus a 7-page A4 picture book. Took about 4–5 minutes on the free image tier.

Highlights

• Age-matched writing: page count, word count, sentence length and vocabulary differ for ages 2–3 up to 8–10
• Parenting themes: fear of the dark, brushing teeth, sleeping alone, a new sibling, first day at school, sharing… taught through story, not lectures
• Consistent character: fixed art style, character description and random seed, so the hero looks as similar as possible on every page
• 6 art styles: watercolour, crayon, 3D clay, paper-cut, night sky, vintage gouache
• Many languages: gentle voices in English, Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and more
• Child-safety rules: no scary, violent or sad endings and no copyrighted characters; illustration prompts require a non-photorealistic style and fully clothed characters, and the agent checks every image
• Sequels: reuse the same character and seed to write the next episode

How it works

1. Tell your agent the child's first name or nickname, age, favourite things and (optionally) the lesson you want.
2. The agent writes the story using a bedtime-story structure; you edit and approve it.
3. The script generates illustrations, narration, subtitles and music, then outputs the video and PDF.
4. The agent reviews every illustration and re-renders any bad page (other pages are cached, so it's quick).

Requirements

• Python 3.9+ and ffmpeg (the skill checks first and tells you what to install)
• pip install -U edge-tts pillow
• Internet connection

Speed

The free image tier allows 1 image per 45 s, so a 6-page story takes about 5–6 minutes. With a POLLINATIONS_KEY environment variable it takes about 1 minute and images have no watermark.

Privacy

Only the child's first name or nickname is used — never surname, school, address, birthday or photos. The name goes only to Microsoft's speech service for narration, never to the image service. All files stay on your computer; the author collects nothing.

Limitations (please read)

• Story and illustrations are AI-generated. Illustrations are still images with slow camera motion, not animation.
• The character's look is kept as consistent as possible, but hair or clothing details may vary slightly between pages.
• On the free tier, illustrations come from a lighter model (max 1024 px) with a soft, semi-realistic look and a small corner watermark. A POLLINATIONS_KEY switches to a higher-quality model with a truer picture-book style.
• Narration is an AI voice, not a human reader.
• It never uses your child's photo or generates their real likeness.
• Not psychological counselling or professional child-development advice.
• Relies on free third-party services (Pollinations, Microsoft speech); policy changes could affect availability. Download buyers get free updates.

Files

• SKILL.md — agent workflow, safety and privacy rules
• scripts/make_story.py — illustration, narration, video and PDF renderer
• references/age-guide.md — writing rules by age
• references/story-structure.md — bedtime-story structure and parenting themes
• references/art-styles.md — 6 art styles and character templates
• references/story-themes.md — 12 story ideas
• references/example_zh.json / example_en.json — example stories