La veille de Holi

A picture book celebrating Holi and all the fun it brings!

Join a little girl and her grandfather as they prepare for Holi, which promises to be THE FUN EVER! They know all the best spots to throw Holi powder! Will they be able to color the whole neighborhood during this big balloon fight?

A vibrant and bold picture book that's perfect for reading during Holi season. Swapna Haddow's adaptation of the traditional poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" is full of humor and energy, while Aditi Kakade Beaufrand's colorful illustrations fill the pages with joy. Young readers will love the bright colors. At the end of the book, there's a page with information about Holi and a recipe for making your own mango lassi!

Swapna Haddow grew up in the UK and wrote her first book at age eight. She wishes she’d kept it, but it seemed like a good idea at the time to trade it for two stickers and a couple of marbles! Her first published book was the hilarious junior novel Dave Pigeon, which grew into a laugh-out-loud, award-winning series. She has since written many funny, colourful and much-loved picture books as well as further junior fiction series. Swapna loves to write stories filled with boisterous animals causing mayhem, with friendship and humour consistently at the heart of her work. Swapna now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, with her husband, son and their dog. Her first homegrown tall tale with Scholastic New Zealand is But Then . . . the almost true story of an overdue book.