The purpose of this study was to identify the gender representation and language use in 20 children's storybooks by Pratham books and Tulika publishers. Children begin to learn values and perspectives in the early years of their life. This learning about various aspects builds the foundations of how their ideas and views are shaped. Hence, reading materials such as storybooks present them with insight into how different genders are perceived in the society. This present study aims to explore how genders are visually depicted in storybooks in terms of roles/occupations and activities, appearance and locations/space(s) used, and the language usage that is, the adjectives by which genders are described. For this study, a qualitative method was adopted and the data was analysed in two parts, Firstly, a content analysis tool was employed which addressed the two aspects (A) Visual analysis and (B) Linguistic analysis. Secondly, the data from the content analysis tool was further analysed by employing thematic analysis. It was revealed from the findings that both females and males were portrayed as primary caregivers but the larger number of females hold the roles of primary caregivers in families depicted in storybooks. Female characters were assigned occupations/jobs outside of home settings but not even once male characters were depicted in activities in public spaces. The findings did not reveal any use of sexist language in the storybooks. Authors and illustrators should develop storybooks with equal gender representation in the text as well as depiction through visual representation Policymakers, stakeholders, and educators should develop such a curriculum where storybooks with equal representation is selected and read in schools. It is suggested another research in the same area should be conducted with large-scale data and future research could explore variations with the age-groups, language and publishers for an in-depth study in the area of gender representation. The following are appended: (1) Appendix- A: Layout of Content analysis tool, Appendix-B: Information about storybooks by Pratham Books and content analysis of storybooks by Pratham Books and graphs, (2) Appendix-C: Information about storybooks by Tulika Publishers and content analysis of storybooks by Tulika Publishers and graphs.