May 2014

Children’s Book Network and the Rock Gong project:

What is a rock gong? Sometimes called Ringing Rocks, these are features of the landscape in the Karoo and many other places worldwide. Put

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

After just over two years of operation, largely with volunteers and scraping by on minimal funding, we now have a regular team who work

This book was an unusual choice for workshops in Africa, but it is a book that is so much loved – even by people

Since Anele Mhlahlo joined us in February, we have been enriching our workshops and activities with live music and adding a layer to the

Almost every book and text we have worked with in the last two years has been African. This time we decided to show the

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

ARABELLA, THE MOON AND THE MAGIC MONGONGO NUT by Hamilton Wende (Tafelberg 2013) A modern, magical story full of unexpected creatures with hadedas as