General News
Bookdash is a fantastic initiative that brings together teams of illustrators, writers, designers and creative people generlaly to create books for South Africa’s children
General News
Congratulations to South African reading organization PRAESA on winning the prestigious Astrid Lindgren in Sweden for their amazing work over the last 20 years
General News
School holidays are just round the corner (again!) and there will be a full programme for children in Clanwilliam: International Children’s Book Day on
Children's writing
Rain makes Rivers – Rivers make Life I love patterns in the dust like pat-pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat. Water can save our lives. If there
General Reports
Not long after arranging to go to Warrior on Wheels courtesy of Assitej South Africa, Assitej called us again to offer us tickets to
General Reports
In Clanwilliam on 20 and 21 March CBN held the first workshop in the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project series. The theme was Water and
General Reports
Our lovely new friends at Assitej South Africa called us a couple of weeks ago to see if we had any children we would
General News
Children from the Chris Hani school in Khayelitsha dancing during the Swedish World’s Children’s Prize homecoming concert in the Artscape Theatre on March 1st.
General News
Clanwilliam Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd March Children between 9 and 12 are invited to join a fun workshop at Living Landscape from 3.00
Friends. Where would we be without them?
A USA Benefit for the Children’s Book Network in Cape Town and Clanwilliam, South Africa What it means to have friends! The USA storytellers
General News
Library Week is coming up soon and the Southern Peninsula have put together a festival celebrating the written word in their area. Blown Away
General News
My Kassie Book Club; helping to address illiteracy in South Africa.
General News
Rivers and us! Children of all ages are invited to talk about what they need, what they would like … most of all, what
Children's writing
Group writing by the children of Red Hill at a workshop on 28th February 2015-03-02 Summer rain is peaceful and kind. I walked to
CBN Books
Saturday 28th February was a good opportunity for the Red Hill children to focus on libraries – their own small container library at the
Workshop Reports
CBN was fortunate to get sponsorship from Pick n Pay for a small workshop in Red Hill in February. It was held on Saturday
General News
Workshop programme: Red Hill 28 February 2015 Theme: Water and Stories Time: 10.00 Saturday until 11.30 (Facilitators meet by 9.45) Venue: Simon’s Town Library
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Shopping for books without having to pay at the end? Quite possible if you are using the books in schools or other reading programmes.
General News
For a revised description of how our workshops work, go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/workshops
Toolbox Reports
One of our priorities for the future is to extend the reach of Children’s Book Network to other children and bring them more and