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Cape To Cape Flight

On Saturday 24th October at 3.10 pm, Swedish pilot Johan Wiklund will land his Moth bi-plane in Stellenbosch having completed an epic flight across Europe and Africa from northern Scandinavia. Children’s Book Network will be there to meet him and to sing a special song of welcome after his incredible adventure. We are giving a

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A Workshop on Courage

Red Hill children will be examining the concept of Courage – in life as well as in small aeroplanes – on the morning of Saturday 24th October. The workshop is in association with the landing of a historic flight being made by Johan Wiklund in a De Havilland 60 Moth biplane from Stockholm to Cape

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Time and the Valley

Some days are just wonderful. The last three days of CBN workshop in Clanwilliam have been days we will never forget – and we hope that none of the seventeen teenagers who attended will forget them either. The theme was Time and the Valley, encompassing the archaeology, the history, the botany, the stories the culture

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Book Dash Editing Club

Last week I had the excitement of finally meeting the amazing team behind Book Dash (http://bookdash.org/). Book Dash is an innovative organisation based in Cape Town. They gather together professional authors, illustrators and designers for a day of stimulation, fun and learning; A day of stimulation, fun and learning through the somewhat stressful process of

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The Jay Heale Collection

Today a very important and (for once one can accurately say), unique collection of books moved home. Jay Heale’s collection of South African children’s books dating back as early as about 1897 (that particular book is undated) is in transit to Hermanus where it will be available for teachers and children in the library of

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Tracking the past

On Friday 15th and Saturday 16th May a full complement of children attended a workshop at Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project linking the art and science of tracking and the art and science of archaeological research. We are slowly building on previous work. This workshop was enhanced by visiting archaeologist Dr Jeremy Hollmann and filmmaker Musi

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