-
Puku Attends the UNISA Children’s Literature and Storytelling Conference
So the UNISA Children’s Literature Conference went of without a hitch again this year. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the first one last year however some of the delegates who had also attended last year said though there were slightly less delegates the commitment and passion could still be felt. They were also happy to see some new faces and a vast selection of Children’s Literature Programmes from all over the world.
Of course Prof Thomas van der Walt was there leading the way of promoting Children’s Literature and chairing numerous sessions. Other speakers include; Palestinian Storyteller Denes Asad, who shared the hardships of keeping Children’s Literature and Storytelling alive for Palestinian children with all the conflict that still prevails, Prof Babila Mutia of Cameroon presented some findings from a reading trial with 50 children on ‘The transforming effect of Storytelling on Children, Jane Kinney Meyers from the USA who is the President of the Lubuto Library Project. Bukola Ladoja from Nigeria spoke of the difficulties they have of trying to ‘ignite the reading fire’ in Nigeria, Cape Town based Nombulelo Baba from the Centre of the Book spoke of children ‘growing up with books’ with the First Words in Print Project. Then of course ‘yours truly’ presented ‘Promoting reading and storytelling in the digital age: the case for an online encyclopaedia on children’s literature and storytelling in Africa’. It was an absolutely wonderful Conference and I really enjoyed meeting such passionate and dedicated indivisuals. Looking forward to the next one.
- Events Calendar
August 2011 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 
JulSep 
- PUKU Chat Latest
March 23, 2011, 10:28 am
Nonikiwe - Editor is reading Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
March 12, 2011, 10:28 pm
lamoesther on Nigerians Shocked at NECO Examination's 2% Pass RateI will rather look at the bigger picture of the [...]
March 3, 2011, 1:19 pm
Chelsea is reading Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
February 8, 2011, 8:00 am
Chelsea is reading An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
December 29, 2010, 2:30 pm
paulineblah on Bontle is reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman CapoteHii ( paulineblah@yahoo.in ) I saw your profile today and became [...]
December 29, 2010, 2:29 pm
paulineblah on Nonikiwe - Editor is reading The Seed Children by Bontekanye BotumileHii ( paulineblah@yahoo.in ) I saw your profile today and became [...]
October 27, 2010, 11:46 am
Nonikiwe - Editor is reading The Seed Children by Bontekanye Botumile
September 8, 2010, 11:29 am
Bontle is reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
August 27, 2010, 3:31 pm
Coin is reading 1984 by George Orwell
August 27, 2010, 3:21 pm
Coin on Bontle is reading A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsHow did you find it?
