This year, we are celebrating Heritage Month with several workshops. Most excitingly, we will be travelling deep into the Karoo – to the Tankwa – to launch a new publication on Amazon of the story of the stones – the stones that were worked into tools many thousands of years ago. As part of the […]
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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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This year, we are celebrating Heritage Month with several workshops. Most excitingly, we will be travelling deep into the Karoo – to the Tankwa – to launch a new publication on Amazon of the story of the stones – the stones that were worked into tools many thousands of years ago. As part of
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When the community of children’s book people lost Jay Healein late 2021, we lost one of our greatest friends. Jay was often called Mr Book by people who knew him well – always with a smile. Usually, they were remembering a shared story, an adventure, an experience; a book.
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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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Our AGM for the year 2022 (rapidly followed by our usual ordinary meeting was held at 14 Longmarket Street between 10-12 am on a sunny day at the end of summer. Three members of the board were able to attend (Anthony Gregorowski, Lesley Beake and Dave Mohr) and we moved rapidly through both agendas. CBN
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Some of our books went travelling (in their own suitcase) to Enlighten Educational Trust, where 16 children assembled on a rainy Saturday for a workshop that the facilitators enjoyed as much as they did. We had books from fat to thin, from big to small, from tiny to huge – all with different purposes and
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Conducted my first CBN workshop as a new Facilitator and it was fantastic so were the kids. We did some reading and then some Activities based on what we read which included drawing a picture of their best friend, it was so much fun and I really loved all their drawings! I am very happy
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The training of new facilitators, which started on 20 September 2022, has ended successfully. We have three new trained facilitators to help with Book Club Workshops in and around Stanford. The new facilitators will accompany the current facilitators in the months of October and November to see the practical side of the Book Club Workshops.
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78% of South Africa’s children cannot read for either meaning or enjoyment by the age of ten. They are unlikely to proceed any further unless some urgent action is taken. Even children who can technically read (decipher some basic sentences), are not comfortable with the written word. It is easier to opt out, to stop
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Aimed at job creation and expansion/sustainability of CBN Our aim has always been to create and provide reading materials for children between 10 and 13 that will increase their interest in books and reading capability. The material for the first of our Reading Toolboxes is now complete. We would like to be able to complete
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It’s Up to Us A Children’s Terra Carta for Nature, People and Planet. Join world history author Christopher Lloyd on a visually stunning story of global climate change covering 4 billion years of Earth’s history, based on It’s Up to Us – a collaboration with The Prince’s Foundation with a foreword provided by HRH The Prince of
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Absolutely Everything! History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things too Numerous to Mention. World History Author Christopher Lloyd takes his audience through 13.8 billion years in the story of Absolutely Everything through 15 of the most amazing moments that have shaped our universe, planet, life and people from the beginning of time
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Over the years since he became Chairperson of CBN, Anthony Gregorowski and his wife Ursula have donated a monthly amount that has increased the CBN reference book collection considerably. We need books to source material for workshops and Reading Club book-boxes – books that are constantly referenced when preparing new material; books that eventually graduate
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Fantastic donation of books from America Opening a box of new books is possibly the greatest pleasure outside birthdays and Christmas. A lovely donation arrived by various couriers from Kate Hosford in New York. They are all super-appropriate to the many projects we are now involved in – from books for younger children that will
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There is always a huge need for new books to keep the interest and stimulate the reading activity of hundreds of children in Stanford who are now part of our Book Box Project. Rotary Stanford recently made a donation towards the cost of some additional books to add to the collection. There are now nine
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How do we choose the books? Keeping up with new books and reviving past favourites is an endless (but lovely) task. Thousands of new books are published every year … and then often go out of print in a relatively short time. Our booklists cannot be permanent as books so often become unavailable, or new titles
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In each of our Reading Toolboxes, there are a number of themed bags, packed with books, ideas, challenges, and excitement. Most importantly, there is a handbook. This is the roadmap, the way in, the explanation of how to get the most out of the contents of the bag. In the theme Bravery, for example (Red
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FIRST, they are about children reading. That is what we do. We introduce children to the idea that books are fun, that books are interesting – that reading is a critical life skill. SECOND, they are about thinking and imagination – playing with ideas. THIRD, they are about writing and illustrating, thinking individually and critically,
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