The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration
By (Author) Namita Moolani Mehra
Illustrated by Darshika Varma
Quarto Publishing PLC
Wide Eyed Editions
2nd September 2025
4th September 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Religious and spiritual stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Hinduism
Childrens interactive and activity: hidden object / search and discover
Novelty book
24
Width 200mm, Height 278mm
500g
Aneesa and her family are getting ready to celebrate Diwali. But this year is extra-special. It's baby Ameera's first ever Diwali and older sister Ameera is on hand to show her exactly what to do, and what every part of the celebration means and why it is so magical.
This is a perfect introduction to Diwali for young children, with 144 flaps to peer behind and discover more details about the festival. Buy special Diwali swets with dad and cook up a feast in the kitchen with Grandma and Grandpa. Get the house ready and decorated and make rangoli patterns with cousins. This is a book to pore over and bring out every year.
Namita Moolani Meera is a writer based in Singapore. She has written many picture books for children and two children's cookbooks - Superfoods for Superheroes, published by HarperCollins, and The Magic Spicebox published by Scholastic.Darshika Varma completeda BFA in Applied Arts at Rachana Sansad in Mumbai. Her career started off as a designer in digital marketing, from where she moved on to designing wedding invitations and eventually found her true calling as a children's illustrator. Darshika is usually found curled up in a corner poring over a book, sniffing in the scent of inked pages, drawing inspiration from the fantasy world and bringing those vivid imaginations to life through her illustrations.