When teachers, who were later to found the Bookgroup, started looking for child-friendly and colourful books for using as alternative textbooks in schools, they found Urdu books developed and published in India, China and the Soviet Union (now Russia) available in the Karachi market. To their good fortune, they had found prototypes of books that were to alter once and for all the nature of Urdu literature for children and initiate a new content and approach to teaching of Urdu in schools. The Bookgroup was founded in early 1990. The first title published was Hasan ki Gali, written by Sami Mustafa and Rumana Hussain, and illustrated by Rumana Hussain.
