Some days are just wonderful. The last three days of CBN workshop in Clanwilliam have been days we will never forget – and we hope that none of the seventeen teenagers who attended will forget them either. The theme was Time and the Valley, encompassing the archaeology, the history, the botany, the stories the culture […]
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Next week (June 29th to July 2nd) CBN will be holding the first Winter Workshop, for High School learners, with an amazingly exciting programme. To start each day, we will have input from the archaeologists working on the rescue archaeology around the Clanwilliam Dam. Participants will learn about rock art and stone tools and make
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Last week I had the excitement of finally meeting the amazing team behind Book Dash (http://bookdash.org/). Book Dash is an innovative organisation based in Cape Town. They gather together professional authors, illustrators and designers for a day of stimulation, fun and learning; A day of stimulation, fun and learning through the somewhat stressful process of
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On Friday afternoon 29th May CBN held a presentation workshop for teenagers at the Clanwilliam Library as part of the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project. No less than twenty young people presented themselves at three o’ clock and participated with energy and enthusiasm, reacting strongly to the chosen stories and showing interest in the outline of
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Today a very important and (for once one can accurately say), unique collection of books moved home. Jay Heale’s collection of South African children’s books dating back as early as about 1897 (that particular book is undated) is in transit to Hermanus where it will be available for teachers and children in the library of
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On Friday 29 May at 3.00 we will have a meeting at the library with high school students to explain what CBN does, how we have been working with primary school children over the last three years and how we can expand this programme to meet the needs of teenagers. There will be a four-day
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this month’s theme has been tracks and tracking – both in hunting and in archaeology. For full reports of these (and all other) workshops, please go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/workshops/reports
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On Friday 15th and Saturday 16th May a full complement of children attended a workshop at Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project linking the art and science of tracking and the art and science of archaeological research. We are slowly building on previous work. This workshop was enhanced by visiting archaeologist Dr Jeremy Hollmann and filmmaker Musi
On Thursday 14th May CBN visited Elizabethfontein Primary School, over the Pakhuis Pass from Clanwilliam. Many older children attend workshops in Clanwilliam, but the school has requested class visits for children in the younger grades. We began with Grade Four. Our theme for May has been to link the signs followed by hunters in the
This was a very interesting event to attend. Morag Styles is an expert in the history of children’s literature. She is professor of Children’s Poetry at the University of Cambridge. In her talk at UCT she gave us a brief history of how children’s literature gained momentum originally from very lyrical and musical poetry in
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Tonight (Monday 11th May) at UCT there will be a conversation between Morag Styles, Emeritus Professor of Children’s Poetry, University of Cambridge, and Finuala Dowling, local author. Please find the booking form and poster with information attached below for download. Follow up article: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/news/2015/05/12/meeting-morag-styles
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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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