General Reports
In 2021 Children’s Book Network enters its tenth year of working with children and reading. We aim for it to be a year to
Friends. Where would we be without them?
If ever there was a time – a week, a month, a year – when we needed song, dance and light, it was this
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Children’s Book Network has a new home. It is an office with carpets, a desk and bookshelves. It also has a collection of boxes
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Yesterday (19th November) a very informal meeting was attended by 14 individuals and organizations working with children in Stanford. Tomorrow … in the future
Friends. Where would we be without them?
At Children’s Book Network, we don’t do black. In keeping with our new Happiness Project for the children, we are offering you the chance
Read at Home
Pictured are some of the elements of this work around the sense of taste good – and as the gentlemen on the front cover
General News
On Thursday 19th at 11.00 am at Madre’s in Stanford, there will be a very informal – and brief – meeting between those involved
Funders
Pictured here are past staff member Lisa Witherden (left) and mainstay Wilien van Zyl (right) proudly wearing CBN tee-shirts and walking with the Lighthouse2Lighthouse
What can you do to help?
What a relief to write a different number. The year 2021 already sounds a lot better than the one we have just had (and
Read at Home
This is what the children receive in their packs every week. Then there are books that are shared between the group, book club books
Friends. Where would we be without them?
An informal meeting will be held at Madre’s restaurant on 19th November at 11.00 for all those working with the children in and around
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Vuyo has been working with CBN for four years now, in a job she gradually expanded into, until we can’t imagine how we managed
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Daisy Verburg arrived for coffee just when we needed her. One thing led to another, as tends to happen with CBN, and she has
Read at Home
The books, the books, the books! When we decided to give the children hard-back books instead of loose papers to write and draw on,
Friends. Where would we be without them?
CBN’s Administration person is one totally reliable friend! Arriving for any meeting precisely 30 seconds before start time, she is unfailingly organized, calm and
Read at Home
In an age of television and instant switch-on, children find it hard to get to the heart of a story or a text. We
Read at Home
This project has been enormous. It has also been enormous fun, enormous amounts of work, enormous amounts of hope and a strong belief that
CBN Books
My favourite kind of people are the ones who say they are going to do something, ignore the muttered voices saying it isn’t possible,
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Lisa Witherden arrived like a lucky bean at just the time we needed her. Within two weeks of introducing herself, lockdown began and she
Friends. Where would we be without them?
Keeping us on the straight and narrow – Elsa Gebhard It is way beyond time that we recognized the immense amount of work that
