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
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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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This book was an unusual choice for workshops in Africa, but it is a book that is so much loved – even by people
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Since Anele Mhlahlo joined us in February, we have been enriching our workshops and activities with live music and adding a layer to the
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
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
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ARABELLA, THE MOON AND THE MAGIC MONGONGO NUT by Hamilton Wende (Tafelberg 2013) A modern, magical story full of unexpected creatures with hadedas as
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
