Nobody must ever be in any doubt about why we work with Children’s Book Network. It is because of the children. And who are

Making children happy is one of the most important objectives of CBN. Yes, we are about books and reading. But the children who come

‘Children smile 400 times a day on average, adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day, adults 6 times per day. Children play

‘The literacy crisis in South Africa is far worse than previously thought, with 78% of Grade 4 learners unable to read, according to the

If you step out of Cape Town airport with your eyes open it won’t be long before you start to notice our children. We

Of all the children we have worked with, the ones we met on Wednesday touched us most deeply. We forget, sometimes as adults who

We allow a self-selection process, which is administered by community workers or librarians. Permissions forms are issued to children who are interested (hopefully within

The CBN team works with children who are needy in all of these aspects of their lives, underprivileged in the lack of opportunity and

This is the song of welcome sung by Red Hill children at the triumphant arrival of Johan Wiklund after his epic flight from northern

Three years ago, in a CBN workshop given at Red Hill informal settlement, Michael Buwa wrote about his dream. His dream was to fly.

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

If there could be a measurement of success after workshops, we feel it would be measured by the amount of laughing (as opposed to

We work with children of ten, eleven and twelve (for the most part) and most of them speak English as their second, or even

Franchey My grandmother is a very good grandmother – and she makes very good bakes. She works at the shop in the town. She

CBN and the participating young people from Red Hill took the Swedish students for a tour around their Red Hill homes. The purpose was

Thirty children from Grades 4,5 and 6 ( from 10-12 years old) started their own book revolution for National Literacy Day today. Stories were