IBBY SA Book donations Last year the IBBY SA / Biblionef SA Schools Programme brought 5760 attractive new books to 15 schools and joined

Marj Brown reports on the phenomenal success of the Phendulani Literacy Quizz Today, 102 pupils from more than 12 schools in Johannesburg, took part

War Horse news and other things … Di Hofmeyr on making stories come to life – and Handspring Puppets on the same theme. Di

Sanlam and Tafelberg Publishers invite you to celebrate with the authors and see the winning books in this prestigious award. Wednesday 29 October 18.30

The story Club Cape Town is hosting another gathering at the end of this month (next week!). This month’s Storyteller is Dinah Eppel who

The South African section of the International Board on Books for Young People is having a celebratory BookBash at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 23

A Campaign to raise funds to donate more HOME LANGUAGE storybooks to children in South Africa. My Language My Heritage is a Campaign by

ASSITEJ South Africa, part of an international organization that brings theatre to children, has invited CBN to bring ten teenagers from Red Hill informal

IBBY Announces the Winners of the 2014 IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award The IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, initiated by the International Board on Books for

Developed by the people who gave us Sesame Street, this resource for early Child Development invited CBN to contribute to their blog. For a

Three sessions of Saturday Stories are planned for the rest of September and beginning October. These informal sessions begin at 10.00 with the ringing

The full reports on these workshops are available under WORKSHOP/Reports on this website, or click through on the addresses below. We do workshops throughout

SONG OF BE by Lesley Beake (Maskew Miller Longman) The moving story of Be, a modern Bushman/San girl. Its opening sentence: “I have just

A TWO-DAY Workshop 16th & 17th July Themes for these days will be:Time, People and working with music and the rock gongs. The children

This 4-day workshop will give us time to complete some large projects – shadow puppets with San themes, beautiful words poetry project, iBooks on

Two large workshops are planned for the school holidays. The first one will be at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) in the Cederberg

Saturday Stories continue in May in Clanwilliam with the themes of: Things I love to love and hate! There will also be a writing

CBN Reporting on a successful year The Annual Report for 2013 is now available under the resources tab – here’s the link https://www.childrensbook.co.za/resources

On the 4th April (Friday) there will be the International Children’s Book Day at Clanwilliams where Lesley Beake will be doing group reading Here