The Ramadan Lantern
Your child's own Ramadan lantern lights the way from the first thin crescent to Eid morning: the lantern street of Cairo, the musaharati's drum, the iftar cannon, a street iftar with the neighbours, Garangao sweets and qatayef. Your child is in every picture, with a real tradition and a fact on every page.
- A real Ramadan tradition and a “Did you know?” fact on every page
- Their name on every page, in Arabic and English, French or Spanish
- Painted into every picture to look like them: from your photo, or skin tone, hairstyle or hijab, hair colour, glasses
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The story
Your child's own fanous, a little Ramadan lantern made in Cairo, lights the way through one whole Ramadan across the Arab world: looking for the new crescent, stringing lights across the street, the lantern sellers of old Cairo, the musaharati's drum before dawn, the iftar cannon in Dubai, dates and water at sunset, a street iftar shared with the neighbours, packing food boxes, Garangao night in Qatar, qatayef in Tripoli, the last ten nights and the joy of Eid morning. Fasting is explained gently and correctly: grown-ups fast from dawn to sunset, and little children usually don't have to.
Is it true?
Yes. Every tradition, place and fact is real and checked, and old legends are told as legends (“it is told that…”). At the back: Ramadan around the world in nine countries, a few new words, and a certificate in your child's name.
Ages
Written for 3 to 8 year olds: short, warm pages to read aloud together, with real facts that older children can read on their own.
Size & quality
Square hardcover, 21 × 21 cm, with a matte cover and 32 pages of thick 200gsm gloss paper. Printed one copy at a time, just for your child.
Delivery
Printed just for your child and sent with tracking: about 7–10 days to the UAE, usually 10–14 days to other countries. We deliver worldwide, and delivery is free on orders over $100.
Languages
Arabic with English, French or Spanish (or any two of them), both on every page. The Arabic is written for a boy or a girl, so it always reads naturally.
Their own lantern lights the way on every page




Painted to look like them
Painted from your photo, or pick boy or girl, four skin tones, nine hairstyles or a hijab, five hair colours, with or without glasses.

الشمس تغيب خلف أبراج دبيّ العالية. الجميع ينتظر… ويُصغي.
بعد قليل سيتكلّم مدفع الإفطار. لا يُطلق إلّا صوتًا: دويًّا كبيرًا واحدًا ونفخةً من الدخان الأبيض، ليُخبر المدينة كلّها أنّ الشمس غربت، وأنّ صيام اليوم انتهى.
سُدّي أذنيكِ يا تالين! ثلاثة، اثنان، واحد… بوووم!
The sun is sinking behind the tall towers of Dubai. Everyone is waiting… and listening.
Soon the iftar cannon will speak. It makes nothing but noise: one big bang and a puff of white smoke, to tell the whole city that the sun has set and the day’s fast is over.
Cover your ears, Taleen! Three, two, one… BOOM!
لا أحد يعرف بالضبط أين بدأ مدفع الإفطار. تقول حكايةٌ قديمة إنّه دوّى أوّل مرّة بالمصادفة في القاهرة، قبل أكثر من ٥٠٠ سنة، حين جرّبوا مدفعًا جديدًا عند الغروب تمامًا.
Nobody knows for sure where the iftar cannon began. One old story says it first boomed by chance in Cairo, more than 500 years ago, when a new cannon was tested just at sunset.
A real tradition on every page
From the lantern street of Cairo to Garangao night in Qatar: real places, real customs and a “Did you know?” fact on every spread, told by the lantern itself.

Their name on every page
The lantern talks to them all the way: “Wave hello, Taleen! He’s calling your name!”

انتهى صيام اليوم! لكنّ الإفطار لا يبدأ بوليمةٍ كبيرة، بل بشيءٍ صغيرٍ وحلو: تمرةٍ، ورشفةٍ من الماء البارد.
يُفطر كثيرٌ من الناس هكذا، كما كان يُفطر النبيّ محمّد صلّى الله عليه وسلّم قبل نحو ١٤٠٠ سنة. فالتمر يعطي الجسم المتعب طاقةً حلوةً وسريعة.
مرِّري الصحن على الجميع يا تالين. من يريد تمرة؟
The fast is over! But iftar doesn’t begin with a feast. First comes something small and sweet: a date, and a sip of cool water.
Many people break their fast this way, just as the Prophet Muhammad did about 1,400 years ago. Dates give a tired body quick, sweet energy.
Pass the bowl around, Taleen. Who would like a date?
في الإمارات أكثر من ٤٠ مليون نخلة، وتُزرع فيها نحو ١٥٠ نوعًا من التمر.
The UAE has more than 40 million date palms, and grows around 150 different kinds of dates.
Two languages on every page
Arabic with English, French or Spanish, so the whole family can read it together.
حملت تالين فانوس رمضان عبر العالم العربيّ: بحثت عن الهلال الجديد، ولوّحت للمسحّراتي، ومرّرت التمر عند الإفطار، وجهّزت الطعام للعائلات المحتاجة، وجمعت حلوى القرنقعوه، وتقاسمت فرحة العيد.
Taleen carried a Ramadan lantern across the Arab world: looked for the new moon, waved to the musaharati, passed round the dates at iftar, packed food for families in need, collected sweets at Garangao, and shared the joy of Eid.
A Little Lantern of Kindness certificate
After the story, a certificate in your child's name: the moon they looked for, the dates they shared, the food boxes they packed.
- IndonesiaAt Eid, called Lebaran here, families eat ketupat: rice cooked in little pouches woven from young coconut leaves.
- MalaysiaFor more than 100 years, a mosque in Kuala Lumpur has cooked bubur lambuk, a rice porridge, in giant pots and given it away free every Ramadan.
- PakistanOn Chand Raat, “the night of the moon” before Eid, markets stay open late, and girls buy bright bangles and paint their hands with henna.
- UAEEvery evening of Ramadan, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi serves free iftar to its guests: nearly a million meals in 2026.
- LebanonA favourite Ramadan drink is jallab: dates, grape molasses and rose water, served with pine nuts and raisins on top.
- TürkiyeIn Istanbul, mahya lights are strung between the minarets of old mosques to write words in the sky, a tradition more than 400 years old.
- EgyptChildren swing their lanterns in the streets and sing “Wahawi ya Wahawi”, a song so old that nobody knows what its first words mean.
- MoroccoIftar often starts with dates, a bowl of harira soup and chebakia: flower-shaped pastries dipped in honey and sprinkled with sesame.
- United KingdomSince 2013, the Ramadan Tent Project has held Open Iftars where anyone can share the meal, even in London’s Trafalgar Square.
A timeline of their life
At the back: Ramadan around the world, from Indonesia's ketupat to London's Open Iftar, and words to know: fanous, suhoor, iftar…
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