Personalised Hanuman storybook with your child as Hanumanji's brave friend

You pick 3 photos, answer a few short questions and choose a style. We draw your child into a gentle courage story built around a fear they are working on right now, like the dark, a first swim or a new school. You see the whole book before you decide anything.

A printed copy is your choice once you have seen the preview.

1. Cover and dedication

2. An ordinary evening at home

   The story opens in your child's world, with the name you call them at home. The fear you picked shows up gently: a dark bedroom, a swimming pool, the night before a new school. If you skip that question, it becomes a simple moment of feeling small.

3. Meeting little Maruti

   A warm light leads your child to a forest at sunrise, where they meet young Hanuman. He is drawn the traditional way, with his gada and a kind, playful face. He greets your child by name and asks them to come along.

4. The leap toward the sun

   From a hilltop, your child watches little Maruti see the rising sun and leap toward it, thinking it is a ripe fruit. The vanar friends cheer. Your child learns that even a giant leap starts with deciding to try.

5. Helping the vanar friends

   The vanar friends need a hand, and your child helps. This part follows the fear you chose: lighting the way through a dark cave with fireflies, crossing a stream on stepping stones, or making friends with a group of new vanar children. Their 'so them' word, like curious or kind, is how they solve it.

6. What Hanumanji teaches

   Hanumanji tells your child that being brave does not mean feeling no fear. It means feeling it and trying anyway, with a kind heart. He reminds them that strength is for helping others.

7. Braver at home

   Back home, your child faces the same small fear and manages it. The family is there, with the festival treat you picked, laddoo or another favourite, on the table.

8. A note for grown-ups

   The last page has a short note for parents with two or three questions to talk about at bedtime. It also says, plainly, that Hanuman stories are told in many ways across regions and families, and yours may differ.

1. What's your little one's first name? (Add the name you call them at home too, if you like.)
2. How old will they be in this story? [1 to 2] [3 to 4] [5 to 6] [7 to 8]
3. Is the hero a he, a she, or they?
4. Pick one word that is so them: [Brave] [Kind] [Curious] [Funny] [Chatty] [Gentle]
5. Is there a fear your child is working on? [The dark] [Water or a first swim] [A new school] (Optional)
6. What does your child call him at home? [Hanumanji] [Bajrangbali] [Maruti] [Other]
7. Their favourite festival treat? [Laddoo] [Kheer] [Modak] [Gujiya] [Other]
8. Who is this book from? (e.g. 'Mumma & Papa', 'Nani')

• Children aged 3 to 8 working through a fear, like the dark, water or a new school
• Hanuman Jayanti, Dussehra and Diwali gifts with a story behind them
• Families who want their child to know Hanumanji as a kind, strong friend
• Nani, Dadi and other grandparents who tell Hanuman stories at bedtime
• Parents abroad who want a piece of home on the bookshelf

• Indian folk-art frames: Madhubani, Warli and Pattachitra-inspired borders, with your child drawn in a soft illustrated style
• Soft watercolour picture-book, best for ages 1 to 5 and bedtime
• Classic Indian comic style, with bold lines and speech bubbles, for ages 5 to 8
• In every style, Hanumanji follows traditional, reverent iconography and is never drawn as a joke