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With schools closed and contact with others limited, what are children to do with themselves? We have been brainstorming ideas about resources that can be accessed through our website now, and also after everything settles down. Each day, from today (24 March) there will be free stories to download. From Monday 30 March there will

Thank you for your support. Our Funding Proposal can be found at the bottom of this article by clicking the PDF links, or on OUR RECORDS page. To all the friends and funders of Children’s Book Network   Thank you for your belief and confidence in our work over the last eight years. Without you,

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. It is also vitally important to properly inform them about COVID-19 – what the virus is, how it spreads and what we can do to stay safe. We came across this

CBN is proud to welcome Inga as a serious part of our team – and a wonderful inspiration to our children. As an Ambassador for CBN, we hope that she will raise our profile locally and she already has fifteen Teen Team members from Hermanus High School interested in helping out at workshops. As a

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 same – to instil a love of reading in our children, and to give them access to books. Basically, to bring books to children and children to books. Learn all about

High School children are keen to help – but very pressurised by work and sport. We have enthusiastic support from children at Hermanus High School who come when they can. Surprisingly, this often includes more boys than girls. During 2018-2019 the Teen Team was led by Nyasha Makwarimba, who subsequently worked as an intern between

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 workshops and noted demographic details that enable us to make decisions for 2020 on a more factual basis. Each workshop is fully recorded and documented, with piecharts to make things visually

Still in the same venue at Norfolk Place, CBN is welcoming even more children than ever this year, with additional help from volunteers and part time staff as well as the old trusted team. We thank them all. There is also a new squadron of the Teen Team – volunteers from Hermanus High School waiting

We are delighted to have the help and enthusiasm of Lisa Witherden, who turned up at exactly the right moment to assist with some of the critical issues facing an expanding CBN. It is not often that the person with just the right credentials turns up on the doorstep – and there is no such

Photographs of children doing things tend to be more alluring, and maybe reflect more of the activities around the theme of the workshop than the actual business of reading. But they read! A lot. It wouldn’t be much use handing out a pack of books, however interesting and expecting our children to become immediately engrossed.