Precious places explains what World Heritage Sites are, before exploring the eight South African World Heritage Sites, namely: Mapungubwe, Cradle of Humankind, Greater St Lucia, Drakensberg/ uKhuhlamba, Vredefort Dome, The Richtersveld, Robben Island and the Cape Floral Kingdom. There is a short glossary at the end of the book.

This book gives situations in which a person needs to match the amount of one set of objects with the amount of another set of objects. For example, on the first page, a child has two shoes, but only one sock. The next page shows how each person solves the problem.

Ziyanda dreams about escaping from her noisy home. She thinks it would be nice to fly away. Lying on the couch, she dreams and imagines how she could do this. She designs and draws a flying machine and then flies up into the sky.

Some boys are playing with a ball when a dog comes along and steals the ball from them. They don’t have another ball to play with. Then they come up with the idea of making their own balls with plastic bags. They get bags from their home and from the local spaza shop. They make several balls, so when the dog comes along again and tries to steal their ball, they are not worried because they have other balls to play with.

This story has an urban setting. A mother (or older woman) takes two boys on an outing, but she doesn’t tell them where they are going. They walk past their grandmother’s house, the church, a party and a soccer match until they eventually reach their destination, which is a photographer’s shop. The boys have their photographs taken.