Walk With Me: Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina takes your child by the hand through his true story: the Silk Road markets of Bukhara, a doctor at sixteen, the ruler's royal library and the great book doctors studied for six hundred years. Your child is in every picture, with real dates, places and a fact on every page.
- A true story: real dates, real places 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
Ibn Sina takes your child by the hand and tells them his true story: a boy in Bukhara more than a thousand years ago who learned to count from a greengrocer, read one hard book forty times, became a doctor at sixteen, cured the ruler and was given his royal library, then wrote The Canon of Medicine, studied by doctors in Europe for six hundred years. Today a crater on the Moon and the mangroves of the UAE carry his name.
Is it true?
Yes. Every date, place and person is real, and every page has a “Did you know?” fact. At the back: a timeline of his life, a few new words, and a certificate in your child's name.
Ages
Written for 5 to 10 year olds: a real story to read together, and to read alone as they grow.
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.
They walk beside Ibn Sina 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.

حين كنتُ في نحو السابعة عشرة، مرض حاكم بخارى، نوح بن منصور، مرضًا شديدًا، ولم يستطع أطبّاؤه أن يعالجوه. فأرسلوا في طلبي، أنا الطبيب الشابّ الذي يتحدّث عنه الجميع.
اعتنيتُ به ليلًا ونهارًا… فشُفي!
ناوليني الدواء يا تالين. بلطف!
When I was about seventeen, the ruler of Bukhara, Nuh ibn Mansur, fell very ill, and his own doctors couldn’t help him. So they sent for me, the young doctor everyone was talking about.
I looked after him day and night… and he got better!
Hand me the medicine, Taleen. Gently!
جعل حكّام الدولة السامانيّة من بخارى واحدةً من أكبر مراكز العلم في زمانها.
The Samanid rulers made Bukhara one of the greatest centres of learning of its time.
A true story on every page
Real dates, places and people, told by Ibn Sina himself, with a “Did you know?” fact on every spread.

Their name on every page
Ibn Sina talks to them all the way: “Put two fingers on your wrist, Taleen. Can you feel your heart beating?”

وشكرًا لي، عرض عليّ الحاكم مكافأة. فطلبتُ شيئًا واحدًا فقط: أن أقرأ في مكتبته الملكيّة.
غرفةٌ بعد غرفة، وصناديق مليئة بالكتب: غرفةٌ للطبّ، وغرفةٌ للشعر، وغرفةٌ للرياضيّات… قرأتُ هناك كتبًا لم أرَها في أيّ مكانٍ آخر بعد ذلك.
أيّ غرفةٍ نفتح أوّلًا يا تالين؟
As a thank-you, the ruler offered me a reward. I asked for just one thing: to read in his royal library.
Room after room, chest after chest of books: one room for medicine, one for poetry, one for mathematics… I read books there that I never saw anywhere again.
Which room shall we open first, Taleen?
كانت الكتب في ذلك الزمن تُنسخ باليد صفحةً صفحة، ولهذا كان كلّ كتابٍ ثمينًا.
Books back then were copied by hand, one page at a time, so every book was precious.
Two languages on every page
Arabic with English, French or Spanish, so the whole family can read it together.
مشت تالين مع ابن سينا من بخارى إلى همذان، فعدّت البطّيخ في السوق، وتحسّست النبض، واختبرت دواءً، ولم تتوقّف يومًا عن السؤال: لماذا؟
Taleen walked with Ibn Sina from Bukhara to Hamadan, counted melons in the market, felt a pulse, tested a medicine, and never stopped asking why.
A Young Doctor certificate
After the story, a certificate in your child's name: the pulse they felt, the medicine they tested, the questions they asked.
- 980Born in a village near Bukhara, around this year.
- 996Begins to study medicine, at about 16.
- 997Helps cure the ruler of Bukhara and reads in the royal library.
- 1002His father dies and the kingdom ends; he leaves Bukhara.
- 1015Works as a doctor and minister in Hamadan.
- 1025Finishes The Canon of Medicine, around this year.
- 1037Dies in Hamadan, aged about 57.
- 1150The Canon is translated into Latin and reaches Europe’s universities.
A timeline of their life
At the back: his life from Bukhara around 980 to the Canon of Medicine, and words to know: physician, pulse, caravan…
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