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Publication of first Red Reading Toolbox Handbook: Books and Stories

We are currently checking the final proofs of this work of dedication and perseverance before it goes to print. Soon, soon, we will hold the first copies in our hands. But our hands are not the important ones. Children must have access to these materials that support and encourage reading for a vulnerable age-group. The […]

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Training Workshops 2024

Wilien van Zyl, our workshop and training manager has been hard at work, specifically on the training manual for our three amazing facilitators, Rachel van Rooyen, Georgette Plaatjies, and Kelly Semu (with more trainees to follow soon). The result was an excellent workshop held at Stanford’s new business and meeting venue, The Nest. We have

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Mobile Book Club Boxes

The Mobile Book Club Boxes were initiated at the beginning of 2021 after lockdown. There was a need for children to have access to books without going to the local library. Covid restrictions didn’t allow them access to the facility. Children’s Book Network, recruited local organisations in the community and keen parents to assist us

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Children’s Book Network Workshops 2024

Children’s Book Network Workshops 2024   TERM 1 January – March   Special Workshop Themes Regular Workshops February Valentine’s Day Leap Year March  Human Rights Day Easter Three workshops a week at three different venues. Mondays  The Learning Tree (Stanford South) Okkie Smuts Laerskool Wednesdays Enlighten Trust (small) One Saturday a term  Enlighten Trust (Big)

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Timeless Whispers

TIMELESS WHISPERS “In South Africa, the Karoo is always ‘over the mountains’. Wherever you come from, you must cross high blue mountains by dangerous passes that corkscrew up into the sky and then let you down again on the other side. It is very beautiful. It is very big. It is very dry – except

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Hope and more Reading

    The faded image of a paper found floating around our Children’s Book Network store after last week’s devastating floods says it all. Stanford has been through a terrible week.  First there was the image of our river entirely out of control. There was disbelief. (It can’t be coming through the door!)  Followed by

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Ostrich-Eggshell Beads

The children of Elandsvlei Farms School received gifts of bracelets made of ostrich shell after their min-excavation of a square metre of Tankwa desert and a presentation of CBN’s new book – Time Trackers. The bracelets were made by Kelly Semu and were so much appreciated! Thank you Kelly!

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Time Trackers in Tankwa

As part of our toolbox development programme, and in association with Dr Emily Hallinan, who is an archaeologist working in the Tankwa, we have contributed stories about the importance of her work looking at how people made stone tools in the Middle Stone Age. Along the way, an absorbing book for teenagers emerged that has

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Children’s Book Network – What we do and who we are (in 15 easy steps)

Children’s Book Network (1) CBN is pure magic. We start off with children who have learned the basics of reading – the ABC of it. We wave a magic wand and turn some of them into readers and give all of them the chance to experience what books can do for their imagination. Well …

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