Yoshay, Storyans! Yosippaya storybooks with story prompts,
thinking cues and activities for children aged 3–12
Yoshay,Storyans!
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What we stand for
At Yosippaya, we believe that imaginative kids grow into innovative adults.
Concept books for all ages
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What is Yosippaya
A creative space where a child’s imagination finds its voice.
This is what Yosi built. Yosippaya makes storybooks that a child does not simply read.
Every book carries a story, thinking cues that ask something of the reader, and activities
woven into the pages: mazes, spot-the-difference puzzles and word games, alongside ruled pages the child
fills in themselves.
The idea is simple. Most books ask to be received. Ours ask to be answered. A child who
finishes a Yosippaya book has not just read a story; they have solved something, chosen
something, and written something of their own.
What each story is quietly teaching
Every title is built around a developmental thread, so a parent knows what a story is
doing as well as what it says.
Leo the Lion Learns to Share: sharing, emotional awareness, gentle leadership
A Penguin in the Desert: problem-solving, adapting to new situations, creative thinking
The Lost Kitten’s Adventure: empathy, confidence in unfamiliar places, belonging
The Monkey Who Forgot to Laugh: recognising feelings, friendship, positivity
The Talking Parrot’s Secret: curiosity, listening, observational thinking
There are books and activity sets for ages 3–5, 6+, 9+, 12+, and open-ended titles
that suit any age at all.
Inside the Cloud Club
Some thoughts are too big, too quiet, or too tangled for plain words. But stories know how
to speak them gently. When a child becomes a storyteller their inner world slowly opens up:
their fears, their joy, their unspoken wishes, and even the feelings they have not yet
learned to name.
Through storytelling children do not only create characters. They reveal who they are
and how they see the world. That is the quiet magic behind Yosippaya, guided by our cloud
friend Yosi, who sparks little minds and turns storytellers into Storyans.
Why Yosippaya matters
Imaginative writing unfolds the child within.
Boosts confidence and emotional growth. Storytelling helps children
articulate thoughts and feelings, building empathy and self-awareness.
Sharpens thinking and problem solving. Imagining plots strengthens
critical thinking and cognitive flexibility.
Builds future ready skills. Creativity, collaboration, adaptability
and leadership, all through stories.
The science of imagination and play
A research-backed perspective on why play and storytelling matter in early development.
Play unlocks creativity. Play gives children a safe space to explore
ideas, test roles and combine experiences into imaginative stories.
Developmental psychology
Practice preserves imagination. Regular story-based play helps prevent
decline in creative thinking and supports continuous skill growth.
Longitudinal studies
It builds transferable skills. Storytelling strengthens language,
sequencing and social and emotional skills that carry across school and life.
Educational research
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is
able to be creative.” Donald Winnicott
Beyond imagination
Big outcomes from playful, story-first practice.
Handwriting fluency and speed. Frequent low pressure writing builds
rhythm, grip comfort and pace.
Vocabulary growth. Wordless stories invite children to discover, label
and reuse new words naturally.
Logical sentence structure and flow. Sequencing panels nudge clear
beginnings, middles and endings.
Grammar and spelling accuracy. Repetition with feedback builds
automaticity without killing the fun.
Communication confidence. Characters, expressions and settings spark
style and voice.
And it doesn’t stop with writing. Children narrate their own stories aloud, which is
gentle, joyful exposure to an audience: it reduces stage fear,
enhances expression and voice modulation as they “become” their
characters, and builds self-assurance for public speaking long before a
classroom presentation ever feels like one.
For every age, for every Storyan
Four seeds, four stages, one idea: imagination never ages out.
For every age for every Storyan
We are all children in Yosippaya, where stories rain from our cloud
friend Yosi as Yosingas.
One cloud in Vaandom could imagine. The others only worked.
Far above the skies was Vaandom, a kingdom where clouds rumbled with thunder, raindrops
practised their songs, and stars learned to twinkle. In one quiet corner sat Yosi, a fluffy
cloud with a glowing head, sketching shapes and dreams while the other clouds bustled about
their work.
Yosi could only imagine, and cherish that imagining. It was often left out, wishing there
were a place where imagination and creativity mattered too.
Down to Earth
Carried by that wish, Yosi drifted down to Earth. Below, children held pencils and blank
pages, bursting with bright, unusual ideas. Instead of applause, their stories were
brushed aside and their doodles left unnoticed. Yosi’s heart ached, and it lost its glow.
These children felt like him.
Seeds of imagination
With gentle hands, Yosi scattered magical seeds, the Yosingas. Wherever they
landed, imagination bloomed: children’s eyes lit up, crayons danced, and their stories took
flight. In that bright moment Yosi realised its gift was a purpose: to guard imagination and
help every child dream. And Yosi got back its glow.
How Yosi sparks the imagination
Yosi doesn’t tell whole stories. It sprinkles Yosingas, tiny story seeds
that spark an idea and then get out of the way, nudging a child toward a world of their own
instead of handing them one.
Each prompt is a small invitation: a shape, a feeling, a silly sound. Enough to unlock a
first sentence and let a child’s imagination take it from there.
“Yoshay, Storyan! The story lives in you. I’m just here to help it
bloom.”
Every magical world begins with a dreamer. Behind Yosippaya stands
R. Sreelaxmi Anish is a storyteller, a dream builder, and above all
someone who believes that a child’s imagination is the strongest superpower in
the world.
With a background in English Literature (B.A. and M.A.) and years of creative
writing, storytelling and content creation behind her, Sreelaxmi has always been in
love with words. Her stories have reached thousands of readers. But for her, stories
have never been “just stories.” They are seeds of imagination, little
sparks that grow into confidence, creativity and joy.
“I cannot travel the whole world, so I am creating a world of my
own.” R. Sreelaxmi Anish
What I stand for
Yosippaya is more than a storytelling platform. It is a creative sanctuary, a place
for open-ended storytelling, picture books for children, story starters, and tools
that nurture imagination. It is her promise:
To keep the sparks of imagination alive before they fade.
To help children see creativity not as “just a hobby,” but as a gift.
To give them what she once longed for: encouragement, belief, and space to dream.
Because imagination is not just play. It is joy. It is resilience. It is the seed of
empathy, innovation and confidence.
The spark that started it all
In the 8th standard, Sreelaxmi came up with a story so vivid it felt like her own
secret universe. Without encouragement it was left unfinished, because storytelling was
brushed aside as a “hobby,” and slowly the spark dimmed. That uncompleted
story still lingers, a quiet reminder of how fragile imagination is when nobody
nurtures it.
Years later the spark came back through her niece, Sri Nakshatra, known as Nakshu. Her mother
shared a video of Nakshu, then three years old, flipping through a picture book of
The Ant and the Grasshopper. She could not yet read, so she made up her own
story from the pictures:
“The grasshopper woke up happily in the morning. Since there was no
bathroom in the house, it wanted to bathe. So it went to the pond to swim!”
A simple moment, and a profound one. Nakshu was not repeating. She was not reciting.
She was imagining. And it struck Sreelaxmi that she had once been that child, full of
stories nobody preserved, and that she could not let the next generation lose theirs.
On that day, Yosippaya was born.
Accomplishments
30+ published e-stories with 10k+ reads (ASR)
Stories written for the Original Morals YouTube channel
First chapter of Meraki, under the pen name KSR
Graduate of the Kahanyia storytelling bootcamp
Highlights
Invited speaker at literary seminars, including the Jane Austen Readathon 2023
Featured in a record-setting 51-hour literary conference
(World Book of Records & Assist Book of Records)
Cross-college collaborations via the Faculty Exchange Programme (Goa)
A Yosinga is what Yosi carries in its pouch and scatters over Earth. Inside a Yosippaya book
it takes a form a child can hold: a story prompt, a thinking cue, a puzzle to solve, a path to
choose, or a ruled page left deliberately blank.
The name carries the plea itself: please think, please imagine.
Story prompts, thinking cues and activities
Each book puts all three on the same page, so a child moves between reading and doing
without noticing the join. They read a page, work something out, make a choice, and write
or draw what happens next.
That is why the ranges exist. Finish the Tale,
Choose the Path, Be the Protagonist and
Be the Traveller each lean on a different way of drawing a child in,
and new concepts join them as they are written.
At Yosippaya, we believe that
imaginative kids grow into innovative adults.
That is why this is not a place to be told stories. It is a place to be
sparked into telling your own. Every page here is a playground, every
prompt is a thinking cue, and every idea is a story seed waiting for a
child to plant it.
So come, Storyans. Flip the page, catch a spark,
and let your imagination play.
The world I imagine
Through Yosi, I carry a dream of
a world where stories and creativity always find a place to grow.
A world where no child’s imagination is ever too small.
A world where every doodle, daydream and half-finished story is
cherished as a treasure.
A world where children can grow up and look back at the magical
storyworlds they once created.
Because in the Yosippaya world, every heart has a
story, and every story deserves to shine.
The books
Creative ways a Yosippaya book asks something of you.
Every book asks the reader to do something rather than sit still.
What it asks is what tells the concepts apart.
We write and illustrate a story book around an organisation and what it
wants a child to carry away. The child gets a book worth keeping. The
brand gets the quietest kind of presence there is: a name a family sees
every time the book comes off the shelf, with no advertising in it.
Made forGanga Medical Centre & HospitalsCoimbatore
Children finish these books in their own hand, and what they write is
better than anything we could have printed. Vaasippaya is where we put
those pages.
Story writing workshops, Imagination Labs and school sessions run
through the year. Every one of them is announced on Instagram before
anywhere else, so that is the place to watch for what is coming.
Concept one
Finish the Tale
Story writing
A prompt, a thinking cue, an illustration, and then the page stops and the lines are blank. No answer is printed anywhere, because the rest is the child’s to write.
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Concept two
Choose the Path
Decision making
The story reaches a moment that will not resolve itself and turns to the reader. Whatever they choose, the book goes on differently, so the choice has to be theirs.
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Concept three
Be the Protagonist
Solve to continue
The story stops and waits. Nothing moves until the reader works it out. They are not watching the hero solve it, they are the one solving it.
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Concept four
Be the Traveller
Solve if you like
The same road, with things to do beside it. Solve them or walk straight past, either way the story carries you on and you reach the end.
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Where Every Page is a Playground!