• Children’s Book Network encourages and promotes reading with 9-14 year-old learners • We do this in small workshops (following strictly Covid protocols) •

Wilien must sometimes wonder, as she opens the door to the CBN ‘office’ in my dining room, what is waiting for her THIS time.

If ever there was a time – a week, a month, a year – when we needed song, dance and light, it was this

Children’s Book Network has a new home. It is an office with carpets, a desk and bookshelves. It also has a collection of boxes

Yesterday (19th November) a very informal meeting was attended by 14 individuals and organizations working with children in Stanford. Tomorrow … in the future

At Children’s Book Network, we don’t do black. In keeping with our new Happiness Project for the children, we are offering you the chance

An informal meeting will be held at Madre’s restaurant on 19th November at 11.00 for all those working with the children in and around

Vuyo has been working with CBN for four years now, in a job she gradually expanded into, until we can’t imagine how we managed

Daisy Verburg arrived for coffee just when we needed her. One thing led to another, as tends to happen with CBN, and she has

CBN’s Administration person is one totally reliable friend! Arriving for any meeting precisely 30 seconds before start time, she is unfailingly organized, calm and

Lisa Witherden arrived like a lucky bean at just the time we needed her. Within two weeks of introducing herself, lockdown began and she

Keeping us on the straight and narrow – Elsa Gebhard It is way beyond time that we recognized the immense amount of work that

We found Nyasha by accident – and now we don’t know how we managed without her. She sprang into the workshops as a volunteer

Change happens. Usually it is uncomfortable, but it happens anyway. So it is with regret that we say goodbye to three loyal board members

Our website is an important tool to communicate and record what we do. Computer difficulties can get in the way of that! But we

Any organization needs a firm hand on the paperwork and CBN has been doubly fortunate to have Chantel looking after ours. She has devotedly

CBN is back in action, and the beginning of official spring, and the end of our short break has been kicked-off by the most

The words ‘Jay Heale’ and ‘children’s books’ go together like, well, like Piglet and Pooh. Following a distinguished career doing just about everything in

CBN is about books, but we also hope that the children we work with are inspired to dream their own dreams and set their

CBN first heard about the Cape to Cape project when one of our Rotarian friends, Leif Sundqvist, visited us from Skellefteä. He described an