You can check the delivery times for your location by choosing from the state options below. Once you’ve chosen and personalized your book, the actual delivery time will be shown during checkout. Every book is made to order, so the time to make, personalize and bind the book by hand is factored into the delivery time.
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Urgent$19.99Delivery Between
10th August - 13th August
4th August - 6th August
The delivery times shown here are based on ordering now, and will also be calculated during checkout when you place the order.
Order Tracking
Once you have placed your order you can track it via our Track my order facility. Just enter your details and track your parcel!
You'll love this because...
Your little one will get to imagine what it’s like to have a hippo as a pet!
Style the illustrations to look like you and your choice of hippo
Names are featured throughout the story, and on the cover
Any Message can be included on the opening page
Add your Photo to the back page of the book
Luxury gift box available to make the gift extra special and protect the book as time passes
Has your little one ever wondered what it would be like to have a hippo as a pet? As the second-largest land animal on Earth, it might be quite impractical to have a real hippo in the house! With our hippo children’s book, kids can create their very own pet hippo to feature in a book alongside them, and delve deep into their imagination!
Your little one can create an avatar that looks exactly like them, choosing their eye color, hair color and their favorite outfit! Their avatar will be featured throughout the book, alongside their Name, which they will also be able to spot on the front cover. They’ll even be able to choose a Name for their pet hippo!
How to Personalize Your Child’s Hippo Book
You can personalize your hippo story book by choosing your child’s Name, creating a Name for their pet hippo, write a special Message for the title page and even upload an optional Photo of them to appear on the back page!
As well as this, you can create your very own avatars of the main character and their pet hippo to feature throughout the pages of the story.
Further Information
Please note: You cannot pick the gender of the pet and throughout the story it will be referred to using gender neutral pronouns.
Complete your gift by adding a luxury gift box to keep your book protected as time passes.
When entering your personalization, please note that accents, emojis and other symbols can’t be used as our system doesn’t support these. Make sure to double check your spelling!
🌲 Our books are made from responsibly sourced paper from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified paper manufacturers. 🌎
Fabulous, such a beautiful book with personalisation; my granddaughter will love it
- Hannan Al-Tahan
Nichola Cuming31 Jul 2021
Very disappointed in the book
Very disappointed in the book, misleading certificate on title page looks like a small sticker I could have placed on myself, poor value for money- quick dispatch was the best bit
MT29 Jul 2021
Constant calls about delivery
Constant calls about delivery. The people on the phone actually have no control over when an item gets sent out so it was just constantly false information. I actually didn’t need the item after it arrived late, but I couldn’t stand speaking to them on the phone again to go over the refund process which they probably would have not allowed as it was personalised.
Really bad experience
In the Book Team30 Jul 2021
Thank you for your review.
We have looked into your order details and can see that the operators tried to assist as best as they could under the circumstances.
Your order was placed late on the 14th meaning that officially this would go into production on Thursday the 15th and was therefore quoted delivery between the 16th and 20th which does include production time as well as delivery due to the bespoke nature of this product. You then requested to have this delivered by the 16th giving us a day to process the order when we usually allow between 1-2 working days for production so when you upgraded the order it did cause some confusion but despite the inconvenience caused, we tried our very best to process the order as quickly as possible which was then delivered on the Saturday which is not a guaranteed day for delivery.
With that in mind and the time frame in which we were given (less than a day to process the personalised gift) your order was processed and despatched with delivery being one day later than expected, we are so pleased to hear that after every effort made, you have received a really bad experience.
We can confirm that a refund has been processed a gesture for the difference paid for your delivery.
Kindest regards In the Book.
Carl Palmer27 Jul 2021
Quality product
Quality product. Very quick delivery
Kevin McGaughy27 Jul 2021
Ordered and paid for a book for my…
Ordered and paid for a book for my mother, promised delivery was july 16-21. Today is the 26th and your website has no info on my order, nothing, and obviously no delivery. Yet, my bank account clearly shows a $99.98 payment to inthebook on july 7, 2021. Update: Inthebook contacted me the next morning, updated me on the shipping and my mother’s book arrived the next day. She’s 84 and it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her tears of joy. All’s well that ends well. Thank you, and I’ve updated my review to reflect 5 stars.
In the Book Team28 Jul 2021
Thank you for your review.
We can see that you have contacted our customer service team who have provided your tracking information and a screenshot of your expected delivery which is now showing as delivered as of July 27, 2021 at 11:26 am.
The website does provide your order information when you enter your email address and full zip code, if that is unsuccessful we do provide our contact information within your email confirmation.
Due to the delay in delivery we have requested a refund for your delivery cost and hope that this will go towards an apology. If you need any further assistance, please email us at [email protected]
Kind regards In the Book.
John lilley26 Jul 2021
Ordered a personalised book for my 4…
Ordered a personalised book for my 4 year old grandsons birthday, i included a message inside , the encyclopaedia had some very informative bits of information , and bright colours. A nice personalised present to keep.
Very happy with it
