Newsletters and blog posts

Finance Manager (Cape Town) Overview Book Dash is a social impact publisher of open, African picture books for very young children. We tackle the complex systems that make having books […]

Early Learning themes You asked and we listened… with the help of valuable feedback from our partners, all 200 Book Dash books have now been categorised into 15 Book Dash […]

We’re delighted to share this news with the world — Book Dash is among the three winners of Theirworld‘s “Innovation in Early Education Awards” to support scale up! The award includes grant funding, […]

Book Dash is over the moon to share that there are now over 3 MILLION Book Dash books in the hands and homes of pre-school children in South African and around the world! 🌟 That’s right,…

Book Dash has released its Annual Report for the 2022/23 year: It covers the activities in the year that was (most significantly the milestone of three million books!), along with key updates on Book Dash’s strategic direction going forwards… you guessed it, we’re looking at ways to get even more of our beautiful books into children’s hands and homes.

As you’ve probably heard us shouting from the rooftops, Book Dash believes “every child should own a hundred books by the age of five”. It’s a grand vision that we’ll […]

At Book Dash our work is big and bold, but it’s also supported by a significant body of research: Giving young children access to high-quality, relevant books to own is strongly associated with positive behavioural, educational, and socio-emotional outcomes. The closer to birth we start, the greater the benefit.

Book Dash was thrilled to be featured as Beautiful News’ story for International Literacy Day in September.

Mogau is excited to meet you! Jump into Mogau’s Kingdom and meet colourful characters from Book Dash’s free online library of African storybooks. Mogau’s Kingdom is a free mobile edutainment game, produced by Kobold Kove in partnership with Book Dash and Credipple and made possible by funding from the Goethe-Institut and SADiLaR.

Book Dash is thrilled to share that we’ve ensured that the official Quicksand font now includes five glyphs unique to the TshiVenda alphabet. Read more here.

Book Dash, Nal’ibali, Wordworks and the Liberty Community Trust have launched the Eastern Cape-based literacy project, “Yizani Sifunde”.

Book Dash is thrilled to have been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nedbank Private Wealth Innovation Awards! Book Dash was selected from among 150 organisations that applied, many of […]

A few key players at Book Dash reflect on what they’ve learnt over the last 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic and the impact in the worlds of publishing, representation […]

“Open source is based on freedom. That freedom includes access to the source code, freedom to collaborate, and ultimately, the freedom to innovate.” — https://thenewstack.io/power-community-open-source/ New! Watch our discussion with […]

Click the language to find tips for reading with young children, and why it’s so important to do Afrikaans English isiNdebele isiXhosa isiZulu Sepedi/Northern Sotho Sesotho Setswana siSwati tshiVenda xiTsonga

We sometimes get puzzled looks from people when we share our vision with them: every child should own a hundred books by the age of five. Why so many books? […]

A recent collaboration with the DG Murray Trust and a team of CodeSpace Academy graduates means that all 500 Book Dash children’s books, in a variety of South Africa’s languages, […]

Since our inception in 2014, Book Dash has published 140 original African storybooks for children, and translated them into a library of close to 500 titles. How much did we […]

At Book Dash our work is big and bold, but it’s also supported by a significant body of research: Giving young children access to high-quality, relevant books to own is strongly associated with positive behavioural, educational, and socio-emotional outcomes. The closer to birth we start, the greater the benefit.

Book Dash is honoured to announce that our website and catalogue of books has been vetted as one of the inaugural Digital Public Goods in the Foundational Literacy and Early […]