Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

I asked it to create the kind of storybook my toddler would have asked for ("create a storybook about a music truck and an ice cream truck and a mailman and a carwash", inspired by his request for a story last night), and the results were certainly... interesting.

Obviously Gemini doesn't know that "music truck" is another name for "ice cream truck", but more concerningly, the illustrations it made for the trucks were this kind of eldritch amalgamation of Cars-movie style cars and people driving cars. The story was just OK, I don't think it would have kept my toddler's attention for the whole ten pages. Plus, the mailman is barely involved.

The ending tag in the demo video is "For stories only you could imagine"

That's... uh... a pretty bold description for a tool where you are in fact outsourcing the "imagination" part to the machine.

The quality of the images, text, and layout was very high for the simple prompt I tried it with.

Damn... pretty good. Generated a 10 page booklet including high quality graphics and cohesive story right on point with my prompt. It would've taken me at least an hour mucking around with LLMs and image generators to get the same result that it spit out in ~30 seconds.

I can't seem to get it to work. It just summarizes whatever I plug in.

Edit: Even without giving it context, at best, just get a single picture and two paragraphs. Maybe they are slowly rolling the feature out. It doesn't seem to get it.