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

Shopping for books without having to pay at the end? Quite possible if you are using the books in schools or other reading programmes.

The Children’s Radio Foundation (http://www.childrensradiofoundation.org) train young reporters around Africa in radio broadcasting, opening all sorts of opportunities to them and teaching a plethora

Richard Parsons, Champion of Children’s Book Network and friend, died last week after a courageous struggle with cancer. CBN owes him a tremendous debt

Sometimes, in all the pictures of children at workshops, the facilitators, friends and helpers who make it all possible are left out. So here

Rosemary has been with CBN almost since the beginning, doing design work, volunteering at workshops – and gradually being drawn in to more and

Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) had been a wonderful ally and partner for CBN in a series of workshops stretching back nearly two years

CBN has a strong team of regular facilitators – Lesley and croc E, Anele and Rosemary are almost always there, but we co-opt (sometimes

We were very lucky, and privileged, to host the riel dancers from Elizabethfontein Primary School at our Clanwilliam winter workshop. They did a lovely

Monday 7th July was an important date for Children’s Book Network at the Centre for the Book in Queen Victoria Street. It was the

At the four-day workshop held in Clanwilliam between 30th June and 3 July, 25 children had the chance to use the CBN iPads for

croc E is a special part of CBN workshops. When he starts getting into his ‘Disaster Management: Poet’ overall and puts on his poet’s

2 Phumla Gqoboka: Web Management The website you are looking at has a fairly complex and very time-consuming structure that makes it work. Hundreds

After just over two years of operation, largely with volunteers and scraping by on minimal funding, we now have a regular team who work

It seemed appropriate to talk about friends on a day when the best of friends – children’s books – were being celebrated. We talked

CBN is about books. Yup. But we approach books in different ways. Making reading cool is what we do – and using electronic media

For some time now, CBN has been in deep discussion with Rotary Skelleftea in northern Sweden about ways in which they can help us

Where would any of us be without friends? CBN is grateful that we have (possibly) the best in the world! One of the goals

Most of you will know that I have been writing and illustrating books for many years – my first picture book, The Little Girl