CBN was fortunate to get sponsorship from Pick n Pay for a small workshop in Red Hill in February. It was held on Saturday 28th at Simon’s Town Library. Saturday morning is a great time for a workshop. No school, weekend … freedom. Seventeen children climbed aboard our faithful transport from Oceans Tours and were […]
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Workshop programme: Red Hill 28 February 2015 Theme: Water and Stories Time: 10.00 Saturday until 11.30 (Facilitators meet by 9.45) Venue: Simon’s Town Library Hall (Main street in Simon’s Town, past the shops. Police Station on left. Library on right, directly opposite. Go up a steep ramp-like road and there is parking at the top.
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Shopping for books without having to pay at the end? Quite possible if you are using the books in schools or other reading programmes. Last week CBN made the first of what will be many visits to a Rotary Newlands project in Pinelands where containers of books donated through American Rotary clubs were waiting. Careful
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For a revised description of how our workshops work, go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/workshops
One of our priorities for the future is to extend the reach of Children’s Book Network to other children and bring them more and more books. We hope to be able to create toolboxes – both digital for free download, and actual workman’s tool boxes containing everything needed to construct a workshop around a given
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Our goal is to bring books to children and children to books by making reading fun and exciting as well as useful. We work, by choice, with children in communities that are not already served by other NGOs in this context – although we have close relationships with others working with children and books and
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Malala Yousafazi was not only the joint winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize , but also the winner of a prize awarded by children from all over the world to champions of children’s rights. “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first.”
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These are some of our happiest highlights from 2014 at Chlildren’s Book Network. Enjoy! https://www.childrensbook.co.za/news/event/942/happy-everything
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At the core of what we do are always books. CBN is lucky to be able to book-rustle in the libraries of various supporters but, until now, we have lacked a significant collection of our own books to use as a core library Two donations have enabled us to begin changing that. A cash donation
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CBN recently had a donation of books from long-standing friend, and editor at Cambridge University, Fiona McGregor. We asked Jay Heale to review the books for us!.Thank you, Fiona! From Jay: 35 boxes of Rainbow Reading books, each with 10 books (5 factual, 5 stories) at all primary age levels – and my favourite box
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Last week, teenagers from Red Hill informal settlement met Joey, a horse, on the stage of the Artscape Theatre. Nothing could have prepared them, or us, for the impact. Our group of nine boys assembled for a theatre workshop in Woodstock two days before the performance they were to attend. ‘Have all of you been
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Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press are holding their annual dragon boat contest on Saturday 29 November at 9.00 am at the Waterfront in Cape Town. All proceeds to go to SHINE, an organization promoting reading and literacy skills. For more details, go to: http://cup.co.za/pages/oxford-cambridge-paddle-to-read-dragon-boat-race
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A board meeting will be held in Tokai, Cape Town, on Friday 5th December at 2.00. This will be attended by the three CBN board members (Sindiwe Magona, Anele Mhlahlo and Lesley Beake), and advisor Roy Zazeraj and members of Rotary Cape of Good Hope and Rotary Newlands and our administration manager, Rosemary Bangham. CBN
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This is the week that 10 Red Hill children travel to Cape Town for first a workshop, and then a performance of War Horse. CBN kicks off the week with a short workshop at 4.00 (after school) at Red Hill container library. This will be given by Jay Heale and will offer them some background
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During 2015 CBN will be offering workshops to local children in association with Clanwilliam Living landscape Project and the contracted archaeologists who will be working on what will be land flooded by the increased height of the Clanwilliam Dam. Clanwilliam is a town dominated by mountains. The Cederberg tower over the town, which lies in
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Come and join the Archaeology students from University of Cape Town and other universities in Africa, at Living Landscape on Saturday 6th December at 10.00 for a fun morning of stories, crafts, games food and – above all – FUN! This is part of an outreach programme by students to the children of Clanwilliam and
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Maurice Sendak and JRR Tolkien on the children and their books “I don’t write for children,” Maurice Sendak scoffed in his final interview. “I write – and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’” “It is an error,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien seven decades earlier in his superb meditation on fantasy and why there’s no such thing as
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This month has seen some emotional moments for the ASSITEJ SA team as more than 3600 young people came to the production of War Horse in Johannesburg, sponsored by Rand Merchant Bank, after having attended workshops with the fantastic ASSITEJ SA facilitation teams. If anyone had any doubts about the potential impact of a production
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A book about a truly important thing – the ability to read Author Chis van Wyk, who sadly died last month, often wrote from his own experiences growing up in a township in Johannesburg. This brings an integrity and truth to his books for adults as well as children. In this much loved book, he
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IBBY SA Book donations Last year the IBBY SA / Biblionef SA Schools Programme brought 5760 attractive new books to 15 schools and joined hands with two organisations in the Eastern Cape (NMI and Axium). According to Jean Williams (Biblionef), their hands-on workshops on reading with the teachers have” ignited a passion in the schools
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