Both Diwali, the festival of lights and Halloween, the spooky celebration, fall on the same day this month, October 31st, bringing a unique cultural overlap.
Being two of the most vibrant cultural festivals, we are joining in celebrating by spotting our Diwali and Halloween Baby Touch books.
These titles were added to the bestselling BabyTouch series we updated with the Ladybird team at Penguin, and join the other Festival Book titles: Eid, Easter and Christmas.
Diwali is celebrated by lighting lamps, decorating buildings, exchanging presents, being with family and watching huge firework displays. This meant we had our work cut out to include everything into the 5 spreads board book layout.
In line with the rest of the series, by keeping the illustrations bright and simple, we managed to feature the key icons, encourage little ones to touch-and-feel the boards as well as introduce them to the wonderful celebration that is Diwali.
Ghosts! Spiders! Ghouls! How do you make a traditionally scary festival adorable? The question asked of many a designer!
Luckily, having worked on a few books in this series, our handwriting style made life easier. Add in cute faces, googly eyes, fancy dress and bright colours and you can make even the scariest icon fun.
We are really proud of these two titles and the reaction they have had. Check out the other book’s in the range here.
