The 24 stories in this resource provide a years work based around the people who live in The Crescent. The characters provide a continuity and the themes include:

- giving and taking
- bullying and friendship
- honesty and lies
- birth and new arrivals
- environmental issues.

With every story there is a warm up exercise, Circle Time discussion, supplementary ideas, National Curriculum links and photocopiable worksheets.

A comprehensive resource using a mini soap opera storyline, which will help children identify and emphathise with the characters so that they can experience and experiment to gain understanding of their own world.