The Cape and the City
A cape, a day of powers, and a whole city to help with kindness.
Ages 4–9 · 13 pages
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The first 4 of 13 pages — every one drawn around your child.
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The journey, scene by scene
Every copy of The Cape and the City follows these 13 scenes in order. The scenes are fixed — the words are written for your child, and their hero is drawn into every one.
- a bedroom with a glowing cape in the closet
- a rooftop against a city skyline
- flying above city rooftops
- a street scene with a kite tangled in a tree
- a park with a kite stuck in a tree
- a busy street with honking cars
- an alley with a scared puppy
- a doorway with a happy family
- market stalls with spilled fruit
- a crowd gathered with confetti
- flying home at golden hour
- a bedroom with the cape hung on a hook
- a bed by a window with city lights
How your child becomes the hero
You enter a first name, an age and pronouns, then design a cartoon avatar — skin, hair, outfit and more. That exact character is drawn into all 13 pages by code, so the hero on the first page is identical on the last. No photo uploads, ever.
The words are written fresh for your child: an AI language model writes the book’s title and one line of story text per scene — and nothing else. The artwork is pre-drawn, the scenes are fixed, and no image-generation AI is involved. The same story is also available as a coloring book, drawn as line art to fill in.
More in the FAQ and on how Heroling works.
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