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Champion of Children. CBN was really – really – sorry when Rosemary announced her return to Britain after three years of providing a firm
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Here, as promised, are the blogs and web reports (with pictures) of the Book Dash on Saturday. It was a truly splendid occasion! •
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Google has counted the total number of books in the world arriving at a total of 129,864,880. Like most statistics, this number tends to
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This year, IBBY (International Board of Books for Young people) has produced a short film of the authors and illustrators who have been nominated
Workshop Reports
This document explains just what a Children’s Book Network workshop might be for a child.
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Nal’ibali is a wonderful resource for story telling advice and encouragement, these two articles may help you to get started: http://nalibali.org/reading_story_topics/how-to-get-story-telling-with-your-children/ http://nalibali.org/reading_story_topics/storytelling-activitie/
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This adaptation from a traditional African tale comes from Fairy Tales of the World… enjoy it! The grass shrivelled up and turned a pale
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Book Dash has an incredible range of books created by author-illustrator-graphic designer teams on their epic Book Dash days. All of them are available
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From our Front Line Book Correspondent at Centre for the Book The Dash is on as twelve teams (each with editor, designer, illustrator and
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On Saturday 13th February, 24 children (twenty-five including a baby on someone’s back!), and ten adults converged on Simon’s Town Library for a story
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At a recent panel discussion, Genevieve Hart, chair of IBBY SA described books for children as being: ‘Windows to look out at the world,
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In a panel discussion at a recent PRAESA event in Cape Town, Professor Genevieve Hart, gave the following statistics about libraries in South Africa.
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A remarkable team of musicians and storytellers will assemble in Simon’s Town Library on 13th February to work with 25 children from Red Hill
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IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award – the
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IBBY is the International Board of Books for Young People, representing national organizations working with children and books all over the world. Here is
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Lesley Beake and Jay Heale give some very last minute choices form their very favourite books (today). It might be different tomorrow! Lesley: I
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CBN was delighted to facilitate the donation of the children’s book collection of our beloved book editor, Jay Heale when it arrived at Enlighten
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The latest Bookchat Newsletter, Number 212, kindly supplied -free of charge – by Jay Heale.
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In the last year Children’s Book Network have been connecting with theatre organisations in and around Cape Town. One such organisation is Jungle Theatre.
