Welcome to The Book Tree - a South African literacy platform aimed at promoting literacy, inspiring children to read, and helping parents and caregivers on this path. Projects include facilitating reading, writing and creativity workshops, managing corporate investment literacy projects, writing children's books and running the Kingsmead Young Writers’ Competition.
We help you find the best reads for your child by chatting to authors and illustrators, publishers and book store owners, literacy experts and teachers.
We also unpack issues around literacy and writing skills, finding ways to inspire and grow young readers and creative thinkers.
Your host is Corinne Rosmarin, journalist and children’s book author. Join us in exploring the ways, big and small, in which books and stories help us navigate life.
'There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not yet found the right book.' Author Frank Serafini
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Welcome to The Book Tree - a South African literacy platform aimed at promoting literacy, inspiring children to read, and helping parents and caregivers on this path. Projects include facilitating reading, writing and creativity workshops, managing corporate investment literacy projects, writing children's books and running the Kingsmead Young Writers’ Competition.
We help you find the best reads for your child by chatting to authors and illustrators, publishers and book store owners, literacy experts and teachers.
We also unpack issues around literacy and writing skills, finding ways to inspire and grow young readers and creative thinkers.
Your host is Corinne Rosmarin, journalist and children’s book author. Join us in exploring the ways, big and small, in which books and stories help us navigate life.
'There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not yet found the right book.' Author Frank Serafini
www.thebooktree.co.za
Episode 1: Lorato Trok from Nal'ibali on why children need to hear stories out loud.
The Book Tree Podcast
34 minutes 1 second
1 year ago
Episode 1: Lorato Trok from Nal'ibali on why children need to hear stories out loud.
Lorato Trok, director of Nal'ibali, a national reading campaign, explains how teaching in mother tongue may improve SA’s literacy levels and why hearing stories is as important as reading them.
https://nalibali.org/
Plus a few book recommendations. Best new picture book, Who Ate Steve, by Susannah Lloyd (Nosy Crow), the trending Lottie Brooks tween series by Kate Kirby (Puffin Books) and Singing for Mrs Pettigrew, stories and writing inspiration from one of the world’s best loved story tellers, Michael Morpurgo. (Walker Books).
The Book Tree Podcast
Welcome to The Book Tree - a South African literacy platform aimed at promoting literacy, inspiring children to read, and helping parents and caregivers on this path. Projects include facilitating reading, writing and creativity workshops, managing corporate investment literacy projects, writing children's books and running the Kingsmead Young Writers’ Competition.
We help you find the best reads for your child by chatting to authors and illustrators, publishers and book store owners, literacy experts and teachers.
We also unpack issues around literacy and writing skills, finding ways to inspire and grow young readers and creative thinkers.
Your host is Corinne Rosmarin, journalist and children’s book author. Join us in exploring the ways, big and small, in which books and stories help us navigate life.
'There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not yet found the right book.' Author Frank Serafini
www.thebooktree.co.za
