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
CBN Books
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,
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In a panel discussion at a recent PRAESA event in Cape Town, Professor Genevieve Hart, gave the following statistics about libraries in South Africa.
Workshop Reports
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
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IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award – the
Project Reports
IBBY is the International Board of Books for Young People, representing national organizations working with children and books all over the world. Here is
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Lesley Beake and Jay Heale give some very last minute choices form their very favourite books (today). It might be different tomorrow! Lesley: I