[Your child] and the Parol Star
With Lola, your child makes a parol star lantern for the window of a Dubai flat, shining for family far away.
- 24 pages · 10 illustrated scenes
- Arabic, English or both
- Ages 1–9
- Hardcover, printed in the UAE
From 149 AED · free UAE delivery on hardcover
Free preview · no payment needed
Look inside
The first pages — with Althea as the hero
في ديسمبر، جاءت لولا، الجدّة، من الفلبين لتقيم معهم. قالت: «لا يكون الميلاد ميلادًا من دون بارول!» وفرشت أمام ألثيا أعواد الخيزران والورق الملوّن.
In December, Lola, Grandma from the Philippines, came to stay. “Christmas isn’t Christmas without a parol,” she said, and unrolled bamboo sticks and bright paper for Althea.
2على الهاتف، رفع لولو البارول الخاص به، وكم اشتاقت إليه ألثيا! قال لولو: «سأعلّق نجمتي في نافذتي، فعلّقي أنتِ نجمتك أيضًا. نجمتان، ونافذتان، وعائلة واحدة».
On the phone, Lolo held up his own parol, and Althea missed him so much. “I’ll hang mine in my window,” he said. “Hang yours too. Two stars, two windows, one family.”
3Sample name and drawings. Yours are drawn from your child’s photos.
Make it theirs
Their name, in both scripts
On the cover and on every page, typeset in Arabic and English.
Their face, from your photos
3–5 photos are enough — or build their look without photos.
The whole family
Add Mama, Baba, siblings or grandparents (+20 AED each).
Your art style
Watercolour storybook · Comic adventure · 3D animated · Paper-cut collage · Crayon & pencil
A dedication page
Write a few words they’ll read again when they’re grown.
Read in your voice
A QR code plays the story narrated in your own voice.