As part of our toolbox development programme, and in association with Dr Emily Hallinan, who is an archaeologist working in the Tankwa, we have

  This year, we are celebrating Heritage Month with several workshops. Most excitingly, we will be travelling deep into the Karoo – to the

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

Children’s Book Network (1) CBN is pure magic. We start off with children who have learned the basics of reading – the ABC of

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

Some of our books went travelling (in their own suitcase) to Enlighten Educational Trust, where 16 children assembled on a rainy Saturday for a

Conducted my first CBN workshop as a new Facilitator and it was fantastic so were the kids. We did some reading and then some

The training of new facilitators, which started on 20 September 2022, has ended successfully. We have three new trained facilitators to help with Book

Franschhoek Rides again! 2022 sees the return of the Franschhoek Literary Festival with its attendant excitement of writers, publishers and intellectuals. It also signals

Book-Books This entirely novel concept could have a boring title like ‘Project Book’.  Book-Book says a lot more. We experimented with these books during

We are excited about the more cheerful beginning to 2022 and hoping against hope that the signs of cautious optimisim in South Africa continue.

The Toolbox Project explained For five years now, CBN has been writing, creating, discussing (and testing with upper primary schoolchildren) a different way to

Not to difficult to guess! They cost a lot. A book, by its very nature, is going to be expensive. It is, or at

After a short break for refurbishing (a longish-short break!) we are back in full flow.CBN never paused or faltered. We were storming along all

A common question, this time with no satisfactory answer. The year of 2020 has had a serious, and very negative, effect on our children.

On Thursday 19th at 11.00 am at Madre’s in Stanford, there will be a very informal – and brief – meeting between those involved

With heavy hearts, we decided at a meeting this morning to postpone the planned workshops for the next quarter, or until the emergency has

CBN started a choir during 2018 because we believed that it would give the children an identity and a sense of community. It succeeded