Who are we? The CBN Team revealed Friends. Where would we be without them? 2 Phumla Gqoboka: Web Management The website you are looking at has a fairly complex and very time-consuming structure that makes it work. Hundreds Read more
A Quartet of ladies CBN Books Jay Heale celebrates the unsung heroines in the background of two very, very good picture books. I’m going to tell you about four ladies Read more
Stories in the sun General Reports On Saturday 31 May, Clanwilliam children took to the sun on a very cold day to read and enjoy (and review) stories about music. Read more
The Street Party Children's reviews A Neighbours Story from the Cambridge University Press Rainbow Readers, published in 2009. The children in the street hatch a plan to help Tiny Read more
Sisters Children's reviews Sisters, By Lesley Beake, with illustrations by Beverley de Meyer, Cambridge University Press Rainbow Readers, published in 2009. This very simple story has very Read more
Children’s Book Network and the Rock Gong project: General Reports What is a rock gong? Sometimes called Ringing Rocks, these are features of the landscape in the Karoo and many other places worldwide. Put Read more
Snow Goose Theme General Reports During April and May 2014, we focused on an out-of-Africa story. We wanted to focus on imagination and how books can take readers anywhere Read more
Who are we? The CBN Team revealed! Anele Mhlahlo Friends. Where would we be without them? After just over two years of operation, largely with volunteers and scraping by on minimal funding, we now have a regular team who work Read more
The Snow Goose: Theme book for Clanwilliam and Red Hill CBN Books This book was an unusual choice for workshops in Africa, but it is a book that is so much loved – even by people Read more
Music and books CBN Books Since Anele Mhlahlo joined us in February, we have been enriching our workshops and activities with live music and adding a layer to the Read more
May workshop with Red Hill children Workshop Reports Almost every book and text we have worked with in the last two years has been African. This time we decided to show the Read more
Snow Goose Workshop Workshop Reports Looking forward to our snow goose workshop that will be held at Simon’s Town Library on Friday the 23rd of May, we will have Read more
Six of the best young teenage stories CBN Books ARABELLA, THE MOON AND THE MAGIC MONGONGO NUT by Hamilton Wende (Tafelberg 2013) A modern, magical story full of unexpected creatures with hadedas as Read more
Winter Holiday plans for July General News Two large workshops are planned for the school holidays. The first one will be at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) in the Cederberg Read more
CBN Plans for May 2014 General News Saturday Stories continue in May in Clanwilliam with the themes of: Things I love to love and hate! There will also be a writing Read more
Expressing happy, sad and angry in pictures Let's talk about US! In workshops, we often get images form children of what they feel about stories or music – often very revealing about how they interpret Read more
Listening to patterns in music and story Children's writing In the music workshop, we asked the participants to draw the pattern of the very different kinds of music we played them – and Read more
Saturday Stories – Painting the snow goose General Reports We continued the theme of last week’s workshops this morning by, first of all, looking at the patterns of stories in the same way Read more
Clanwilliam Library Workshop for Children’s Book Day Friends. Where would we be without them? It seemed appropriate to talk about friends on a day when the best of friends – children’s books – were being celebrated. We talked Read more
The Snow Goose – what I felt Children's writing The Snow Goose – what I felt Children in Clanwilliam listened to music – both live, played by Anele Mhlahlo on his violin and Read more