This book contains fourteen short stories by children in South Africa from different sectors, that is, street children in shelters, children in the streets, disabled children and children from the rural areas. Their stories range from their personal experiences, friendship, conditions they find themselves in, to motivational stories.

28 pieces of work from the pens of young people and older people in the L'Abre Writing Club. There is honest writing by teenagers on over-use of the telephone, on things they hate, on pocket money and on beauty, on being honest and being non-critical. Adults have written about hijacking, about a Wild-Yellow-Not very Handsome cat, about beautiful gardens and flowers,and onlove and life.