Ian Lusted – författare

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. 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. 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.

This is a Neighbour's title. 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 finds a whole lot of scrap and hands it out. She shows them how to make music with the scrap. Then the children have to deal with the fact that 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.

Lindi and Spike see a snake slither into the Vilakazis' garden. Lindi tells the twins that the snake is in their 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. From huge it becomes massive, from massive it becomes enormous, and from enormous it becomes ginormous. In the end Raj has the snake and it turns out to be a small, harmless mole snake.

This is a Neighbours story. 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.