AI Illustrations for KDP Children’s Book

Start with production constraints

• Choose trim size before art direction.
• Define safe areas for text and gutters.
• Decide portrait, landscape, or square once.
• Keep one color language across the book.

Scene planning that saves revisions

Create a shot list per page: character action, background elements, mood, and camera angle. This reduces random outputs and helps each illustration support the story beat.

How MyStoryBot helps

MyStoryBot can help you draft pages, generate consistent character-focused illustrations, and iterate quickly when you need to fix composition, emotion, or continuity.

Prompt pattern for one interior spread

Use this structure: page goal + character action + camera angle + emotion + background + text-safe zone.

Example: "Page 6. The child protagonist reaches the hilltop and sees the village lights. Medium-wide shot, evening blue light, hopeful expression, same outfit as prior pages, leave top-right open for 35 words of text."

What makes this page different

This guide focuses on how to generate the actual interior illustrations. It is intentionally different from print export pages, which focus on PDF assembly and technical preflight checks.