The sheer exuberance of Holi, the Hindu festival of colours and love (the endpiece gives a succint explanation of the annual event) is beautifully expressed in this colourful/multi hued board book. Each double page shows a vibrant scene of children and the occasional adult covered brightly with paint, predominantly in a colour which is copied in the background to the text, a simple rhyme alluding to the provenance of the particular colour.