Eó Stories is a tiny family studio with one simple idea: a child's drawings deserve to become real books. It started with a stack of crayon sketches — wobbly aliens, a toothy monster, a turtle-shaped race car, mandarin superheroes — drawn by a young artist in our family.
Instead of letting them fade in a drawer, we asked: what if these drawings were a real book? So we write a story around them and bring every character to life — keeping the original colours, shapes and boundless imagination of the drawings that started it all. One sketchbook at a time, the bookshelf keeps growing.
From drawing to page
Nothing is invented from nothing. Here is the newest book, Mikanman, beside the crayon sketches it grew from.
Two worlds, one sketchbook
The same pair of hands drew a galaxy and a mandarin. Both books are hand-drawn end to end — only the world changes.
On the bookshelf so far
Book One · 2nd edition
EO and the Search for the Ultimate Truth
A tiny explorer sets out after the biggest question in the universe. Newly revised into a hand-drawn second edition — the whole story retold in rhyme, with illustrated Field Notes on the real universe at the back.
Book Two · out now
Mikanman and the Doors of Orangeness
Born from a single golden mandarin, one small hero must escape door after door, prison after prison — and discover the one power that can never be caged: the power of friends. Told in playful rhyme, drawn entirely by hand.
And the sketchbook is still full of ideas.
How it's made
The stories and original artwork are the work of our family, publishing as Eó Stories. Every finished illustration begins from the child's own drawings — and we craft each one to keep the colours, the shapes, and the boundless imagination of the vision that started it.