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Ken Jou Alfabet Met Danie Dreyer Se Dinosouruseier

by Nonikiwe - Editor on 04 Mar 2010   |   

Danie Dreyer se dinosouruseier deur Jaco Jacobs maak dit pret om die alfabet te leer. Met pragtige illustrasies en oulike nuwe rympies soos “Fanie Fourie se fantastiese fiets” leer kinders speel speel hul ABCs. Die alliterasie maak die onthou proses ook sommer makliker.

Danie Dreyer koop ’n dinosouruseier – die ding is baie duur! Kort voor lank broei dit uit en nou het hy ’n reusagtige troeteldier! Ontmoet Hermien Human met haar hoed vol horlosies. Kom ry saam op Fanie Fourie se fantastiese fiets. En vind uit waarom Zuraida Zeelie deesdae Zoem! Heerlike humor, vreemde versies en prettige prente – hierdie alfabetboek is voortreflike vermaak!

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• Danie Dreyer Se Dinosourus Eier by Jaco Jacobs
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  EAN: 9780799339970
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New Book From Zimbabwe Teaches Religion, Politics and Tradition

by Bontle on 03 Mar 2010   |   

A recently published children’s book, Uncle Irvine’s Favourite Children’s Stories, could have not come out at a more opportune time than now when schools are about to reopen and parents in Zimbabwe are looking for books outside of the standard syllabus to stimulate their children’s love of reading.

The 20 stories, written with children of the three to 7 age range in mind, are also meant to improve their colouring and drawing skills. All the stories are set in Africa with African characters, and Pastor Irvine Gwatiringa thinks it is imperative for children to read their own traditional stories while at the same time learning from the Bible, hence the decision to marry culture and religion in the stories. the stories also aim to teach children about regional blocs such as SADC and relations within and between countries in the SADC region.

The collection of stories fits in the mould of extra-curricular books that parents should encourage their children to read to improve their reading and writing skills. One interesting aspect about the book published in Botswana, is that it is in a three-in-one format: it’s a storybook, sketch book and colour book, all in one.

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'Build Me a Library' Founder Feels Divine Callingm

by Bontle on 23 Feb 2010   |   

While recovering from sugery for a brain tumour, Hilda Bromley felt a calling. It was 1996, she was living in the USA and she felt that she had to return to her birthplace in Ghana. She says it was God who called her to go to hometown Kukurantumi, Ghana and build a libraray. In her first year she used her personal savings to stock their first library with 3,000 books. The next year she returned with 9,000 more books. Whatever their motivation, since 1998 other towns in Ghana have heard of the library project and requested books from the Bromleys.

Working with local committees which provided a building, a librarian and furniture, the Bromleys donated the shipped books to two towns and helped them set up a library according to the Dewey Decimal System. Since that time the Bromleys have continued to collect books in the USA, ship them to Ghana and then travel there to clear them from the port and distribute them to new towns.

By March, 2005 a total of 204,000 books were shipped from their home in Copley, Ohio to Ghana. These books were donated to a current total of 28 towns. In each town the Bromleys worked with a local committee and helped them set up a library with all the nonfiction and fiction areas represented in the children’s and adult’s areas. Most of these new libraries were in rural areas where educational resources were severely limited.

In 2006 the Bromleys shipped 29,000 books and three pallets of medical supplies and set up six libraries. From January to April, 2006 they were joined by Katelyn Terrell and Ryan Grube.

In October, 2007 The Library Project shipped 36,000 books to Ghana. The Bromleys set up an additional four libraries bringing the total number of libraries to 37. In April, 2007 they met with the Acting Director of The Ghana Library Board, Mr. Omari Tenkorang. The Ghana Library Board is the national library system in Ghana; the Board supports 52 libraries throughout the country. The Bromleys agreed to donate all of the remaining books in the library warehouse, almost 4000 books, to The Ghana Library Board

The Books for Africa Library Project opened up three new libraries in 2008 and four new libraries in 2009. They also distributed 36,000 books in Liberia in November and December 2008. In 2010 and 2011 the husband and wife duo plan to set up four more libraries each year. So far the project has managed to open and stock 44 libraries in Ghana.

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Book details

• Sosu’s Call by Meshack Asare
  Ages 4 to 8
  EAN: 9789988550097
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Are Children's Books Funny? TimesOnline Finds Little Reason to Laugh

by Nonikiwe - Editor on 11 Nov 2009   |   

I’m finding that there are days when reading to my 5 year old son is not as fun as it used to be, not because he’s not up to it but because it sometimes feels so serious. He just does not seem to laugh as much, instead he asks serious questions like why does Slinky Malinky steal? or why did the goat run of without paying? We have not had a major laugh in ages. Are children’s stories just getting too serious? Times Online finds little reason to laugh, read here for more:

Laughter is such an integral part of children’s books that a special prize for funny ones might seem odd. Who doesn’t laugh at The Cat in the Hat, the misadventures of Just William and the scatalogical rudeness of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes?

Yet since children’s literature moved into crossover fiction, it has grown steadily darker. There has always been darkness, of course: few things could be grimmer than Grimm, or more frightening than Peter Rabbit’s struggle not to be put into a pie.

Children’s classics address big philosophical questions without turning a hair. But the other side of fairytales, on which all good books draw, is comedy.

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