Rain makes Rivers – Rivers make Life I love patterns in the dust like pat-pat-pat, pat-pat, pat-pat. Water can save our lives. If there was no water in the world, we would die. I like to watch the rainbows. It is so pretty in the sky. When I watch it I think to myself what […]
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Not long after arranging to go to Warrior on Wheels courtesy of Assitej South Africa, Assitej called us again to offer us tickets to see Lion Boy at the Baxter theatre. Again they covered the cost of our trusty transporteers, Oceans Tours and the tickets so we were thrilled to take 9 children from Redhill
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In Clanwilliam on 20 and 21 March CBN held the first workshop in the Clanwilliam Dam Community Project series. The theme was Water and Stories.
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Our lovely new friends at Assitej South Africa called us a couple of weeks ago to see if we had any children we would like to take to the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg.We quickly said yes! Of course! Not only did they subsidise the ticket price but also paid the transport (by our other trusty
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Children from the Chris Hani school in Khayelitsha dancing during the Swedish World’s Children’s Prize homecoming concert in the Artscape Theatre on March 1st. After many months of training at their school, they attended the Swedish Award ceremony for the World’s Children’s Prize in Sweden, where they had exchanges with children from all over the
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Clanwilliam Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd March Children between 9 and 12 are invited to join a fun workshop at Living Landscape from 3.00 to 5.00 on the afternoon of 21st March and continuing from 10 unto 2.00 on Saturday 22nd. This will be the first in a series of events that will take us
A USA Benefit for the Children’s Book Network in Cape Town and Clanwilliam, South Africa What it means to have friends! The USA storytellers listed below suggested raising funds for toolboxes (themed boxes of books and activities) for CBN – and they always do what they say they are going to do! We look forward
Library Week is coming up soon and the Southern Peninsula have put together a festival celebrating the written word in their area. Blown Away by Books | 18 – 21 March | presented by the libraries of: Fish Hoek, Masiphumelele, Ocean View and Simon’s Town. See the full schedule in the document below.
My Kassie Book Club; helping to address illiteracy in South Africa.
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Rivers and us! Children of all ages are invited to talk about what they need, what they would like … most of all, what is FUN! At 10.00 on Saturday 7th March there will be a Saturday Story event at Living Landscape with Lesley. The theme will be Rivers – There will be stories, writing
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Group writing by the children of Red Hill at a workshop on 28th February 2015-03-02 Summer rain is peaceful and kind. I walked to a pool and the water was smooth and glittering. When I got thirsty, I drank from the pool. I drink summer rain drops when the sky is white, blue and beautiful.
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Saturday 28th February was a good opportunity for the Red Hill children to focus on libraries – their own small container library at the informal settlement where they live, and also the big library in Simon’s Town where we hold our workshops. Two parcels of books were donated to the container from the Books of
CBN was fortunate to get sponsorship from Pick n Pay for a small workshop in Red Hill in February. It was held on Saturday 28th at Simon’s Town Library. Saturday morning is a great time for a workshop. No school, weekend … freedom. Seventeen children climbed aboard our faithful transport from Oceans Tours and were
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Workshop programme: Red Hill 28 February 2015 Theme: Water and Stories Time: 10.00 Saturday until 11.30 (Facilitators meet by 9.45) Venue: Simon’s Town Library Hall (Main street in Simon’s Town, past the shops. Police Station on left. Library on right, directly opposite. Go up a steep ramp-like road and there is parking at the top.
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Shopping for books without having to pay at the end? Quite possible if you are using the books in schools or other reading programmes. Last week CBN made the first of what will be many visits to a Rotary Newlands project in Pinelands where containers of books donated through American Rotary clubs were waiting. Careful
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For a revised description of how our workshops work, go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/workshops
One of our priorities for the future is to extend the reach of Children’s Book Network to other children and bring them more and more books. We hope to be able to create toolboxes – both digital for free download, and actual workman’s tool boxes containing everything needed to construct a workshop around a given
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Our goal is to bring books to children and children to books by making reading fun and exciting as well as useful. We work, by choice, with children in communities that are not already served by other NGOs in this context – although we have close relationships with others working with children and books and
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Malala Yousafazi was not only the joint winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize , but also the winner of a prize awarded by children from all over the world to champions of children’s rights. “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first.”
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These are some of our happiest highlights from 2014 at Chlildren’s Book Network. Enjoy! https://www.childrensbook.co.za/news/event/942/happy-everything
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