Children's Project

There are various factors which contribute to a poor culture of reading and writing in South Africa – the legacy of apartheid, structural weakness in the publishing industry and poor & ineffective education system to name a few. Jozi Book Fair runs various interventions to encourage and develop a love of books, reading and writing in children.

• Establish reading circles in schools,
• Provide reading and writing skills to learners,
• Publication of the learner's writings, online and in school newsletters to encourage writing,
• Encourage indigenous language reading, writing and publishing and
• Nurture and develop a new generation of children writing for other children.

• Reading and Writing skills workshops, creative and non-fiction
• Establishment of learner's reading circles newsletters for publication of stories, book reviews and articles
• Storytelling for and by young writers to introduce them to the world of books and thus encourage a culture of reading
• Meet the author sessions in which, the children meet published authors who provides comment and direction to their writings
• Participation in the annual Jozi Book Fair and ongoing JBF events
• Facilitate exposure of children's writing to small publishers
   

Jozi Book Fair Children's Roundtable held on 25 February 2011

Jozi Book Fair and Children's Project Partners Meeting held on 11 February 2011

Launching of Masilo le Masilonyana held on 12 March 2011