Shop helps children create and design storybooks

Owner Payal Kindinger sits in the Imagination Forest station in the new Storymakery at the Irvine Spectrum.  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)

An example of the child-imagined story books at the new Storymakery at the Irvine Spectrum.  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)

Jay Parikh works with his son Aakash at one of the character studio stations at the new Storymakery at the Irvine Spectrum.  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)

An example of the child-imagined story books at the new Storymakery at the Irvine Spectrum. Kids can also have a teddy bear named after their character.  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)

The character building studio stations at the new Storymakery at the Irvine Spectrum.  (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)