The neighbourhood children have to cross a very busy road to get to school. Mrs Patel thinks it is dangerous, so she calls the traffic police. But the drivers slow down when they see the policeman, so he won't help. She complains to Aja, who tells her not to worry. He borrows some equipment and sets up his own pretend speed trap. His plan works and the cars all slow down.

This is a Neighbours story. There is going to be a street party on First Avenue. Tiny is very keen to dance with Dudu, but she is not interested. So Tiny enlists the help of others in First Avenue. They help him dress and they organise music that will make Dudu want to dance. Everyone joins in and Tiny gets his wish!

This is a Neighbours story. Mrs Allie, Gogo Vilakazi and Susan Smit are looking for Sam, the twins and Nuha. Layla, Lindi and Neesha offer to help find the other children. They realise that Raj knows where they are, but that he has promised to keep it a secret and not tell anyone else. He does point the girls in the correct direction though and they find the children in an abandoned car on the empty plot. Nuha is reading them stories!

This is a Neighbours story. The readers are introduced to the games that the children who live in First Avenue play or don't play.

This is a Neighbours story. The Vilakazi family has chickens in their yard. One chicken escapes through a hole in the fence and runs around the neighbourhood. The number of items increases as the story progresses, so you have one chicken, two children, three dogs and so on.

This is a Neighbours story. The book introduces one of the main characters in this series as well as her family and her home.

This is a Neighbours story. Layla and Neesha share a room, but Neesha is very untidy and she leaves her things all over the place. So Layla decides to draw a line down the middle of the room. She makes Neesha take all her things to her own side of the room.

This is a Neighbours story. The children in the neighbourhood are very hot. They decide to go down to the river at the end of their road to have a swim. When they get there, the water is very dirty, so they decide to clean it. As they clean, they get hot and dirty, but they still cannot swim because the water is still too dirty. Then they hear some splashing from Lindi's house. The dirty children look over the wall and ask if they can join her.

This is a Neighbours story. The story takes us to the houses of most of the neighbours who live in First Avenue. The learners have to say who lives in each house. Each house is different, with the concept of opposites introduced through the adjectives used to describe each house.

This is a Neighbours story. The readers are introduced to the games that the children who live in First Avenue play or don't play.

This is a Neighbours story, which introduces characters who live in the street and who all look very different.

This is a Neighbours story. Neesha wants to play cricket. She tries to get the others to play before school, but they won't play. She tries again at school, but they all have things to do. She tries again after school, but the others rush off. She is very sad until she gets home and Aja offers to play cricket with her.

This is a Neighbours story. Lindi and her family are getting a new swimming pool. The pool is delivered on a truck. All the neighbourhood children are excited about the pool, so they come to see it. But, the pool is too big to fit through the gates. Lindi's dad makes the pool company use a crane to lift it over the wall. Once in the yard, the pool is too big for the hole. Lindi's mom tells the workers to dig some more. Everyone helps to dig the hole. In the end, the pool does fit into the hole and all the people from the neighbourhood squash into the pool.

This is a Neighbours story. The children who live in the street decide to make a swing. They ask some of the adults to help them. Kevin supplies a tyre, Mr Patel provides rope and Joe Mokwena helps them hang the swing from a branch on the tree in the open plot where they usually play.

Mrs Vilakazi buys a new TV. Mr Mokwena helps her take it to her house in his taxi. Raj helps her set up the TV. At the same time, Mr Patel buys a generator. The twins decide to invite many people from the neighbourhood to watch the soccer match on their new TV the next day. They also invite the people who helped them with the TV; Mr Mokwena and Raj. While everyone is watching the soccer match, the electricity goes off. Mr Patel invites everyone to watch the rest of the match at his shop, where he connects the TV to his generator.

Lindi and Spike see a snake slither into the Vilakazis' garden. Lindi tells the twins that the snake is in their garden. They look for it, can't fi nd it and assume it went into Sam's garden. They tell Sam, but in their minds, the size of the snake has increased, so they tell him that it is big. When they can't find the snake in Sam's garden, they assume it is at the Mokwena's house. They tell Mrs Mokwena that a very large snake may be in her garden. They can't find it there and assume it's moved onto the Allies' house. They tell Nuha that a huge snake may be in her garden. They meet other people from the neighbourhood and each time they tell them about the snake they refer to it as even larger than before. It turns out to be a small, harmless mole snake.

Sam is a little boy who has lost his smile. His parents wonder what they can do to help him find his smile again. Ice cream, toys, clothes, even his favourite toy giraffe fail to cheer him up. Finally, his parents give him a big hug... and Sam smiles! This simple story with its bright and bold illustrations is ideal for young children. The moral of this story is simple, love is more important than having things!

This is a Neighbours story. It introduces the setting for events that take place in the neighbourhood. It also introduces the learners to the names of familiar places.

Layla sees a poster advertising a music festival. She decides to start a band and asks the other children to join her. The first problem the children have is that they don't have any instruments. Nuha stops reading for a change to help them. She finds a whole lot of scrap and hands it out. The children are confused until she shows them how to make music with the scrap. Then the children have to deal with the fact that they are making a noise and no one will let them practise at their house. In the end, Kevin allows them to practise at his workshop, because it is noisy anyway. They don't win the competition, but they have great fun making a huge noise.

The Little Library Life Skills Kit (along with the Literacy and Numeracy Kits) was initially developed to respond to a need for high quality, indigenous books for the younger members of our communities. After ten years successful use in schools, the kits have now been revised to meet the changing needs of learners, schools and the new education policies. The Life Skills Kit focuses on promoting life skills to learners of five to nine years of age, as stated in the National Curriculum Statement. Perfectly me tells the story of a messy young boy who has a neat and tidy sister. With some effort he manages to become clean, but is still a little untidy. He decides that his sister may be perfect, but that he is perfectly himself.

A digger digs trenches for new pipes in First Avenue. When the digging is over, the children explore the mounds of earth and holes. They look for buried treasure. After finding several worthless items like fish bones and an old wrench, they find an old broken plate with a gold edge. They are convinced that it is valuable, so they each decide to take a piece home. Lindi's dad is horrified when he sees the treasure. He confesses that he buried the plate in the field after he broke it, because he was too scared to tell his wife. Lindi's mom arrives home, but they quickly hide the evidence from her.