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As part of an archaeological outreach (and reading) programme, CBN recently travelled to the Tankwa Karoo in the arid Northern Cape. We gave five workshops in all, two at Elandsvlei farm school, where the children welcomed new ideas, new books – and a chance to conduct their own archaeological survey. We have been trialing our […]

The children of Elandsvlei Farms School received gifts of bracelets made of ostrich shell after their min-excavation of a square metre of Tankwa desert and a presentation of CBN’s new book – Time Trackers. The bracelets were made by Kelly Semu and were so much appreciated! Thank you Kelly!

As part of our toolbox development programme, and in association with Dr Emily Hallinan, who is an archaeologist working in the Tankwa, we have contributed stories about the importance of her work looking at how people made stone tools in the Middle Stone Age. Along the way, an absorbing book for teenagers emerged that has

  This year, we are celebrating Heritage Month with several workshops. Most excitingly, we will be travelling deep into the Karoo – to the Tankwa – to launch a new publication on Amazon of the story of the stones – the stones that were worked into tools many thousands of years ago. As part of

When the community of children’s book people lost Jay Healein late 2021, we lost one of our greatest friends. Jay was often called Mr Book by people who knew him well – always with a smile. Usually, they were remembering a shared story, an adventure, an experience; a book.

Children’s Book Network (1) CBN is pure magic. We start off with children who have learned the basics of reading – the ABC of it. We wave a magic wand and turn some of them into readers and give all of them the chance to experience what books can do for their imagination. Well …

Our AGM for the year 2022 (rapidly followed by our usual ordinary meeting was held at 14 Longmarket Street between 10-12 am on a sunny day at the end of summer. Three members of the board were able to attend (Anthony Gregorowski, Lesley Beake and Dave Mohr) and we moved rapidly through both agendas. CBN

Some of our books went travelling (in their own suitcase) to Enlighten Educational Trust, where 16 children assembled on a rainy Saturday for a workshop that the facilitators enjoyed as much as they did. We had books from fat to thin, from big to small, from tiny to huge – all with different purposes and

Conducted my first CBN workshop as a new Facilitator and it was fantastic so were the kids. We did some reading and then some Activities based on what we read which included drawing a picture of their best friend, it was so much fun and I really loved all their drawings! I am very happy

The training of new facilitators, which started on 20 September 2022, has ended successfully. We have three new trained facilitators to help with Book Club Workshops in and around Stanford. The new facilitators will accompany the current facilitators in the months of October and November to see the practical side of the Book Club Workshops.