Bookaroo is a Charitable Trust based in New Delhi, India committed to bringing children and books together. We are a loose collective of booklovers, publishers, booksellers and writers who believe that books are fun and books are for everyone.

Bookaroo held India’s first festival of children’s literature in Delhi in 2008.

Bookaroo promotes book related events working in tandem with internationally renowned writers, illustrators, story tellers, theatre people, publishers, editors and schools.

Our future plans include an annual Bookaroo festival of children’s literature and Bookaroo in the City, where book related activities are held in schools. We will encourage creative on-line activities through our website and will compile a directory of the best children’s books in India.

Get Ready for Bookaroo 2009 !!

The second Bookaroo festival of children’s literature will take place in the last week of November and will be an annual event for the children and booklovers of the NCR region of Delhi.

Bookaroo in the City – 14th to 26th November 2009
Bookaroo Festival – 28th & 29th November 2009

The First Festival of Children’s Literature

India’s first ever children’s literature festival started in 2008 with a week-long extravaganza of book related events around the city culminating in a two days festival at Sanskriti Anandgram in Delhi.

Over 3000 children, their parents and teachers enjoyed story telling, impromptu theatre, creative workshops, museum tours and nature walks. They browsed in a bookshop and discovered a whacky children’s magazine.

Bookaroo in the City

The celebrations spread its wings across Delhi as we also organised book related events in Government schools in collaboration with Pratham Books, Delhi.

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