A donation to provide four new toolboxes in the Stanford area Toolbox Reports Our wonderful friends in Rottweil, Germany, who visited us in person in September, have sent a cash donation to pay for four new toolboxes Read more
A Story workshop with plenty of happy beginnings … Workshop Reports CBN was privileged to welcome Nina and Michael Grimm, from Rottweil, to a workshop on 3 January 2019. The title of the workshop was Read more
A sweet Grimm Fairy Tale General Reports A Grimm Fairy Tale Once upon a time … Well, once, there was a girl who lived in a very small house with her Read more
Book Dash Book Donation CBN Books Just before our holiday workshop that ended off CBN’s successful year, we were offered the gift of some books that our CBN children could Read more
Welcome 2019 – and thank you! General Reports There will be more about that, the first workshop of this year, the last workshop of last year … and the generosity of all Read more
Rotary Donation of toys General Reports Every December we enjoy the inspiring sight of thousands of bikers pouring into designated centres with huge teddy-bears and other toys strapped onto their Read more
A spectacular end to the year! General Reports We ended off the year on a complete high note with participation from talented Zimbabwean musician Terry Tekura and his colleague Edward Schmidt – Read more
Celebrating 2018 – looking forward to 2019! General Reports We have had a magnificent ride through this past year. CBN has gone from strength to strength on all fronts. With funding from Lotto Read more
The CBN Team – Board Member Hildegard Witbooi Our Board members Hildegard has been with us for a year now – and we wonder how she finds the time between her work as Viticulturalist at Read more
CBN is extremely grateful to our donors of 2018 Funders Without the people who dig deep in their pockets to help our work, nothing would be possible. The following donations were enormously helpful in Read more
Nyasha Makwarimba – leader of the Teen Team 2018 – 2019 Friends. Where would we be without them? We found Nyasha by accident – and now we don’t know how we managed without her. She sprang into the workshops as a volunteer Read more
CBN Choir part of new Stanford Project General Reports Great choir input from Vuyokasi Size and her husband. Read more
Social Responsibility Awards – and a new Teen Team! General Reports The following short address was made at the awarding of the Social Responsibility Awards at Hermanus High School in October 2018 by Lesley Beake. Read more
On children and happiness What Children? Making children happy is one of the most important objectives of CBN. Yes, we are about books and reading. But the children who come Read more
Children’s Book Network and local support General Reports CBN needs – and would like to offer – local support in providing exciting and stimulating after-school activities for local children. We are also Read more
Beautiful new books by Book Dash, ready to download CBN Books Hi! We’ve just published new books at Book Dash. As always, they’re ready for you to download, translate, print, and pass on freely. Download Read more
Bookchat is over … and will be sadly missed CBN Books It is hard to give up something you have loved, but Jay Heale, our loyal book editor at CBN, has finally hung up his Read more
November & December Plans General Reports CBN will be holding a holiday workshop for our loyal supporters! There will be storytelling and activities for Little CBN (6-8 years old) and Read more
Why we will always read CBN Books Among the many worlds that man did not receive as a gift from nature but created out of his own mind, the world of Read more
Growing a CBN community General Reports Those who sing together grow together. We began our choir with the Winter Workshops when the theme was Imagination – but we never imagined Read more