We were invited to attend the Sharjah Children’s reading festival in Sharjah (UAE) on 30th April and 1-2 May 2015. It was a very different and very exciting event. The festival was huge. Lasting for eleven days, by three days before the end an estimated 60 000 people had attended – and many, many of […]
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We have been talking about it for a while, but this holiday CBN hosted The FunDza Literacy Trust – http://www.fundza.co.za/ for a workshop with high school children in Clanwilliam as part of the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project. Dorothy Dyer and Ros Hadden travelled up from Cape Town to on Thursday 9th , joined CBN for
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Between 8 and 10 April, twenty-three children aged from 9-11 years old attended the most exciting workshop yet! A team of experienced facilitators worked hard to develop the materials, most of which will be included in one or other of our toolboxes. There were children everywhere, drawn together in the hall for regular joint sessions
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Local rock-art guide David van der Westhuizen joined CBN for the first – but not the last – time to talk to the workshop participants from Grades 7 & 8 (and some enthusiastic others!) about the rock art in the Cederberg and elsewhere. Part of the on going archaeological project to rescue artefacts ahead of
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Many Cultures One Story Today is a special day in the book calendar. CBN is giving a workshop for Grades 7-8 in Clanwilliam today, with the focus on how stories grew into books for children. Here is a link to the IBBY (International Board of Books for Young People) website for the day, and a
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Bookdash is a fantastic initiative that brings together teams of illustrators, writers, designers and creative people generlaly to create books for South Africa’s children – in one day! This is their latest release – about dashing in Johannesburg, this time. We’re excited to announce that Book Dash is travelling to Jozi! On the June 27th,
Congratulations to South African reading organization PRAESA on winning the prestigious Astrid Lindgren in Sweden for their amazing work over the last 20 years of reading in this country. For more information about PRAESA, go to: http://www.praesa.org.za/about-praesa-2/ For more information about the award go to: https://astridlindgrenmemorialaward.wordpress.com/
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School holidays are just round the corner (again!) and there will be a full programme for children in Clanwilliam: International Children’s Book Day on Thursday 2nd April will see a workshop featuring some of the best of the old stories with Lesley Beake and some delving into the past by Rock Art guide David van
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Rain makes Rivers – Rivers make Life I love patterns in the dust like pat-pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat. Water can save our lives. If there was no water in the world, we would die. I like to watch the rainbows. It is so pretty in the sky. When I watch it I think to myself what
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Not long after arranging to go to Warrior on Wheels courtesy of Assitej South Africa, Assitej called us again to offer us tickets to see Lion Boy at the Baxter theatre. Again they covered the cost of our trusty transporteers, Oceans Tours and the tickets so we were thrilled to take 9 children from Redhill
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In Clanwilliam on 20 and 21 March CBN held the first workshop in the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project series. The theme was Water and Stories.
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Our lovely new friends at Assitej South Africa called us a couple of weeks ago to see if we had any children we would like to take to the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg.We quickly said yes! Of course! Not only did they subsidise the ticket price but also paid the transport (by our other trusty
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Children from the Chris Hani school in Khayelitsha dancing during the Swedish World’s Children’s Prize homecoming concert in the Artscape Theatre on March 1st. After many months of training at their school, they attended the Swedish Award ceremony for the World’s Children’s Prize in Sweden, where they had exchanges with children from all over the
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Clanwilliam Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd March Children between 9 and 12 are invited to join a fun workshop at Living Landscape from 3.00 to 5.00 on the afternoon of 21st March and continuing from 10 unto 2.00 on Saturday 22nd. This will be the first in a series of events that will take us
A USA Benefit for the Children’s Book Network in Cape Town and Clanwilliam, South Africa What it means to have friends! The USA storytellers listed below suggested raising funds for toolboxes (themed boxes of books and activities) for CBN – and they always do what they say they are going to do! We look forward
Library Week is coming up soon and the Southern Peninsula have put together a festival celebrating the written word in their area. Blown Away by Books | 18 – 21 March | presented by the libraries of: Fish Hoek, Masiphumelele, Ocean View and Simon’s Town. See the full schedule in the document below.
My Kassie Book Club; helping to address illiteracy in South Africa.
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Rivers and us! Children of all ages are invited to talk about what they need, what they would like … most of all, what is FUN! At 10.00 on Saturday 7th March there will be a Saturday Story event at Living Landscape with Lesley. The theme will be Rivers – There will be stories, writing
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Group writing by the children of Red Hill at a workshop on 28th February 2015-03-02 Summer rain is peaceful and kind. I walked to a pool and the water was smooth and glittering. When I got thirsty, I drank from the pool. I drink summer rain drops when the sky is white, blue and beautiful.
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Saturday 28th February was a good opportunity for the Red Hill children to focus on libraries – their own small container library at the informal settlement where they live, and also the big library in Simon’s Town where we hold our workshops. Two parcels of books were donated to the container from the Books of
