Updated: 23 October 2026

Children's storybook illustration

This prompt creates a children's storybook illustration of a scene you describe, in soft gouache and coloured-pencil textures with rounded, friendly characters. Keep the same wording for each page to make the characters consistent.

image-kids-storybook — midjourney — 70 words

Create a warm children's storybook illustration: [SCENE, e.g. a little girl and her grandmother flying a kite on a rooftop in the evening].

Style: soft gouache and coloured-pencil textures, rounded friendly characters, a gentle [COLOURS, e.g. warm orange and sky blue] palette, a cosy and joyful mood, and a simple uncluttered background.

Leave space at the bottom for a line of story text. No text in the image. Landscape 4:3.

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Reuse the exact same character description in every prompt to keep characters consistent.

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What you will get

A warm picture-book illustration of your scene with gouache and pencil textures, rounded friendly characters, a gentle palette and an empty strip at the bottom for a line of story text, in landscape 4:3.

Common mistake

The characters look different on every page.

Fix: Follow the tip and paste the same character description each time, such as “a girl of 7 with two braids, a yellow raincoat and red boots”.

Also watch for

Squiggly letters or signs appear in the picture. Repeat “no text, no letters, no signs in the image”, and add the story line later in a layout app.
The background is too busy and fights with the story text. Say “a simple uncluttered background with soft shapes, the bottom fifth left empty”.

Try a variation: bedtime colours

Change the palette to “deep indigo, soft lilac and a warm lamp yellow” and the mood to “quiet and sleepy”. It pairs well with a bedtime story.

Still not right? Add this and run it again

clean, simple lettering, spelled exactly as written in quotes