Lighting A Lamp: A Divali Story - Jonny Zucker

Lighting A Lamp Every year in the classroom we talk about different festivals and every year I promise myself to increase my selection of simple to understand books to help learn the main events of the festivals. This is a simple introduction to Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. The story is told in a series of double page spreads, detaining the main events of Diwali. We learn that they hear the story of Prince Ramon fighting the demon- having just told the story to some special needs children, I did actually find it easier to refer to the demon as a monster. Children find out about Rangoli patterns and the double page ...  Read the complete review