Eggzactly as eggspected, 21 children arrived at the Butterfly Centre for a pre-holiday weekend workshop that promised fun stories, fun books … and also

We will be exploring some design ideas around the shape of eggs, decorating real eggs and – most importantly – hearing some stories that

Day Two and a different set of children – and expectations. We foregathered for games to let off steam and then separated for different

We were delighted to be asked to be involved in an annual initiative to give children in Stanford something to do in the holidays.

The Stanford creative works initiative is a community based project that offers after school creative workshops as well as school based skills development groups

Ten librarians from five schools gathered on a Saturday 10 September at Groendal Primary in Franschhoek to listen with interest to a presentation –

The last workshop of the winter workshop season finished in hugs (handshakes went out long ago) and then hugs again as a dedicated group

For a change, this workshop report is from the children! Triza, Busiswa, Liko, Ouola and Mpokisen gave feedback on a fun (and funny) morning

Twenty Grade Fours arrived bang on time with our CBN community helper at 10.00 this morning. The Butterfly Centre again hospitably allowed us to

The winter school holidays saw the beginning of what we hope will be a long association with Enlighten at their beautiful premises in Hermanus.

Cold but sunny was a good forecast for children who need to let off steam before workshops and during lunch. The third day of

The second day of CBN’s Green, Green Theme workshop at Enlighten Education Trust in Hermanus had all children returning – plus a couple of

For the first (but certainly not the last) time CBN worked with Enlighten Trust in Hermanus to bring a workshop with a conservation theme

Books and Stories were the theme – and CBN launched our toolbox of the same name at a lovely festival of story on a

On Saturday, 30 April, CBN held its second workshop in Stanford, entitled Cats. Word had got out about the CBN workshops, and 32 children

CBN has been working with books and music for years now. They go together like … well, like children and books should. On 29

This document explains just what a Children’s Book Network workshop might be for a child.

A remarkable team of musicians and storytellers will assemble in Simon’s Town Library on 13th February to work with 25 children from Red Hill

Over the past eight months – and with a run up for six months before that, CBN has been working with the children of

CBN will hold a workshop on the afternoon of Thursday 15th October at Clanwilliam Living Landscape project as part of the Heritage Symposium being