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Storytelling Sessions, Social-Theme Workshops and Book Festivals

Each Sonalika gathering is a way our books meet people in real life. From annual events such as Sonalika Kalakriti and Young Explorers, to gatherings for storytelling and workshops on growth mindset, menstrual health and gender equity, every session is built around Sonalika’s illustration-rich, culturally grounded books and the children who read them.

Upcoming Gatherings

Join us online or in person for circles and festivals where children, parents and educators read together, think aloud and grow in confidence and kindness.

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Past Highlights

Over time, our circles and festivals have found a home in classrooms, libraries, book fairs, NGOs and neighbourhood spaces. Each has left behind small memories of children listening, laughing, asking brave questions and carrying the stories into their own worlds.

Kukadakoo Book Fest - Hyderabad - 31st Jan and 1st Feb

Kukadakoo Book Fest is a children-focused literary event celebrating reading and storytelling. Sonalika Publications will be part of the Hyderabad edition.

NBT, Goa - 4th Feb - 8th Feb

The NBT Book Fair brings together publishers, readers, and educators from across the country. Sonalika Publications will be participating with a selection of its children’s books.

Kukadakoo Book Fest - Ahmedabad - 14th and 15th Feb

The Ahmedabad edition of the Kukadakoo Book Fest offers a space for children, parents, and publishers to engage with books. Sonalika Publications will be participating in the event.

Host a Sonalika Gathering

Whether it is a book fair, a school initiative or an NGO collaboration , our events are designed so that Sonalika stories sit at the centre of every activity. With more than seventy one titles across early learning, mythology, contemporary India, financial literacy, health, environment and more, each session becomes a lived extension of what children read on the page. Together, we can plan:

Storytelling Sessions

Storytelling sessions where a Sonalika storybook is read slowly, with time to sit with the pictures and the silences. Instead of explaining a “moral”, the facilitator stays inside the story with the children, pausing to ask what they noticed, what they felt, and what a moment reminded them of in their own lives. The values live in situations, the characters face, not in a speech at the end. Children leave with their own reflections on courage, kindness, fairness or friendship, shaped by what they saw and felt in the story and not by a forced “Moral of the Story.”

Theme-Based Workshops

Workshops on personal and social development themes such as growth mindset, menstrual health and hygiene, and gender equity. Each workshop begins with a Sonalika book where the theme is woven into the characters’ everyday choices. From there, the participants connect the story to their own experiences rather than being told what to think. The aim is not to deliver a lecture, but to let a story open a door and then walk through it together.

Sessions for Educators and Volunteers

ToT (Training of Teachers) workshops that introduce teachers and facilitators to the way of working with Sonalika books. Together, we look at how stories rich with illustration can anchor phonics and reading, while also giving space for emotion, questions and different points of view. Educators explore how to resist the urge to “explain the lesson” and instead hold space for children to speak, listen to one another and arrive at their own understandings. This supports both strong pedagogy and social-emotional growth in everyday classroom time.

Storytelling Sessions, Social-Theme Workshops and Book Festivals

Host a Sonalika Gathering