Talking to our children about the Corona Virus General Reports With all of the hype and misinformation around the Corona virus, it is important to put our children’s minds at ease about the pandemic. Read more
Cancellation of workshops until it is safe for our children to come General News With heavy hearts, we decided at a meeting this morning to postpone the planned workshops for the next quarter, or until the emergency has Read more
A CBN Ambassador of note – Inga Mfundisi General Reports CBN is proud to welcome Inga as a serious part of our team – and a wonderful inspiration to our children. As an Ambassador Read more
Workshop on 7 March 2020: Underground Workshop Reports This has to rate as one of our best! We had 36 children in attendance – only three of them in the ‘Little CBN’ Read more
How does our programme work? General Reports Children’s Book Network (CBN) has been operating since 2012, and while we’ve changed and adapted over time, the core of our programme remains the Read more
Book Reviews 2020 CBN Books The reviews of children’s books by Jay Heale over the years will be maintained as a precious resource. His careful choices based on years Read more
Workshop Programme 7 March 2020 Workshop Reports UNDERGROUND! Theme: Looking at non-fiction – and looking at the fun in photographic ‘big books’. The story of going underground – and what might Read more
Our Teen Team General Reports High School children are keen to help – but very pressurised by work and sport. We have enthusiastic support from children at Hermanus High Read more
Monitoring and Evaluation: how are our children doing? General Reports We at last had the resources and staff to develop a proper M&E system. Our Administrator, Wilien van Zyl, recorded all children attending our Read more
Whopping workshop stats! Workshop Reports During 2019 we held 21 Workshops in total, and worked with just over 1 191 children in Stanford, De Kop, Zwelihle (Hermanus) and in Read more
Springfontein and Children Reading! Funders Springfontein Wine Estate is working closely with the non-profit organisation Children’s Book Network, ‘to bring books and children onto the same page’. Children’s Book Read more
Children’s Book Network News General Reports Still in the same venue at Norfolk Place, CBN is welcoming even more children than ever this year, with additional help from volunteers and Read more
Welcome to a new member of the CBN Team General Reports We are delighted to have the help and enthusiasm of Lisa Witherden, who turned up at exactly the right moment to assist with some Read more
Workshops working their wonder Workshop Reports Children’s Book Network (CBN) has officially kicked off our Saturday workshops for the year. These workshops take place twice a month and give our Read more
Toolboxes Forever! Toolbox Reports It has been a very longstanding dream to pass on our ideas to other people and organizations working with children and reading. Six years, Read more
How do they read? Let us count the ways. General Reports Photographs of children doing things tend to be more alluring, and maybe reflect more of the activities around the theme of the workshop than Read more
Workshop programme for November and December 2019 Workshop Reports We are finishing the year off in style with two parties, two workshops in Stanford and two workshops in Tafelsig (Mitchells Plain). This will Read more
CBN Fundraiser 22nd November 2019 General Reports Our Children’s Book Network choir has been invited to join a group of singers from the Netherlands in joyful song next week, Friday 22nd Read more
Toolbox Celebration! General Reports Some projects turn out to be a lot bigger – and a lot more work – than expected, and the CBN Toolbox Project definitely Read more
Regrets about lack of website input General Reports Supporters of CBN will have noticed that our website has not been as regularly updated as they have come to expect. This year has Read more