Dianne Case, one of South Africa’s prominent children’s authors is the author of the children’s reading book called ‘What a gentleman’. This beautifully illustrated book by Jo Harvey, is a story about the role model the children of South Africa  have in former President Nelson Mandela. The book was only available in English. As a honour to the 90th birthday of Nelson Mandela on the 18th of July, this book is, for the first time also published in all the other 10 offical languages; in...[more]

Nigeria, July 10th: Report of Sister Clare of the Sancta Maria Nursery/Primary School. The school is situated in the River State of Nigeria.  It was originally meant for the physically challenged children from Compassion Centre. In the latter years these children have been integrated and the school has about 570 pupils. About 35 of these are physically challenged. There is a small library where pupils from primary 2 - 6 go to read during their library lesson. They also have a box of...[more]

Uganda, Mukono, March 2008. Biblionef had sent a box of books to the “New Horizon Nursery and Primary School” at Mukono which teaches orphans and vulnerable children using the motto : From Nobody to Somebody. They sent us the following report: “When we unpacked the box a number of children were present and reacted with great enthusiasm. As each book appeared they wanted to know the name of the book and what it was about. The staff were also curious and at once started paging through the...[more]

Amsterdam, January 10th, 2008 :This afternoon the world-famous children’s book creator Dick Bruna, together with his character Miffy, started a new drive to collect books for children’s libraries in developing countries at the youth theater “de Krakeling”. Especially for this drive a new Miffy book was developed “Read with Miffy”. It can be purchased by schools, nursery schools, day-care centres, libraries and individuals in the Netherlands. On stage, Dick Bruna and Miffy together with the...[more]

The Hague, November 6, 2007. In January 2008 a massive campaign to provide developing countries with books and children’s libraries in co-operation with the children's television broadcasting station Z@PPELIN is to be launched. The publishing house Mercis together with the Biblionef Foundation have created a special book in the “Miffy” series for this campaign. It is entitled “Read with Miffy across the world” and will be for sale to schools, child-minding centres, libraries and...[more]