General Reports
A first workshop in a new area is always a little tense. Will the children come? Well, at the frst CBN workshop in Stanford,
General Reports
We are pleased to present our annual report for a very exciting year of workshops and CBN activities. To see the full report, please
Workshop Reports
CBN has been working with books and music for years now. They go together like … well, like children and books should. On 29
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A Cape Flats dad has converted his backyard into a library to encourage the children in his neighbourhood to read. What better news to
General Reports
What a pleasure to visit a beautiful library in Grassy Park, full of books and interest and, above all, READERS! Library Week in South
What Children?
We allow a self-selection process, which is administered by community workers or librarians. Permissions forms are issued to children who are interested (hopefully within
What Children?
The CBN team works with children who are needy in all of these aspects of their lives, underprivileged in the lack of opportunity and
Champions
Champion of Children. CBN was really – really – sorry when Rosemary announced her return to Britain after three years of providing a firm
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Here, as promised, are the blogs and web reports (with pictures) of the Book Dash on Saturday. It was a truly splendid occasion! •
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Google has counted the total number of books in the world arriving at a total of 129,864,880. Like most statistics, this number tends to
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This year, IBBY (International Board of Books for Young people) has produced a short film of the authors and illustrators who have been nominated
Workshop Reports
This document explains just what a Children’s Book Network workshop might be for a child.
The Milk Star Stories
Nal’ibali is a wonderful resource for story telling advice and encouragement, these two articles may help you to get started: http://nalibali.org/reading_story_topics/how-to-get-story-telling-with-your-children/ http://nalibali.org/reading_story_topics/storytelling-activitie/
The Milk Star Stories
This adaptation from a traditional African tale comes from Fairy Tales of the World… enjoy it! The grass shrivelled up and turned a pale
The Milk Star Stories
Book Dash has an incredible range of books created by author-illustrator-graphic designer teams on their epic Book Dash days. All of them are available
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From our Front Line Book Correspondent at Centre for the Book The Dash is on as twelve teams (each with editor, designer, illustrator and
General Reports
On Saturday 13th February, 24 children (twenty-five including a baby on someone’s back!), and ten adults converged on Simon’s Town Library for a story
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At a recent panel discussion, Genevieve Hart, chair of IBBY SA described books for children as being: ‘Windows to look out at the world,
