About

Welcome to The Book Tree, where readers and writers are grown and books are loved and shared.

The Book Tree is a South African literacy platform aimed at promoting literacy, inspiring children to read, and helping parents and caregivers on this path. ​​With the percentage of South African Grade 4 pupils who cannot read for meaning at 81% in 2023, interventions to bridge the learning losses are more vital than ever.

Projects include facilitating reading, writing and creativity workshops, managing corporate investment literacy projects, writing children’s books and running the Kingsmead Young Writers’ Competition. In addition, we host The Book Tree Podcast where we share all things book related, from book reviews to author interviews, reading tips and literacy issues.

Meet Corinne 

The Book Tree is the realisation of a lifelong passion for children’s books and reading.  By Grade 3 I had moved school four times and it was in the local libraries that I found a world of friends, adventure and mischief waiting for me.

Words became my career and I’ve worked for many years in the magazine industry, and even longer as a freelance writer. I run the Kingsmead Young Writers’ Competition and am author of three Book Dash books which are distributed to disadvantaged schools. I also have a book deal with Imagnary House Publishers and I can’t wait to share the book soon! 

I launched a children’s book podcast last year – please subscribe and contact us if you’d like to be a guest. 

Check out our book reviews and sign up to our monthly newsletter here. 

Grow your children into readers – it will change their lives.

Love, Corinne

Member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

 Books are reviewed by children and parents, educators and writers.  If you’d like to review a book for us – join The Book Tree Club.