Two rats find a large egg in the forest and decide to make a cake, and animals in the forest gather one after another following its sweet aroma.

Daruma-chan to Tengu-chan is a picture book story whose characters are Daruma (a Japanese traditional toy tumbler modeled after Dharma) and Tengu (a Japanese traditional folktale character, long-nosed goblin). Conversations between the characters are humorous, and visual representations are effectively used in enumeration (catalogue) method or in the scenes such as the transformation of Daruma-chan's nose. Daruma-chan wants to have everything Tengu-chan...

A carpenter must guess the name of a terrible ogre or else pay a terrible price for the bridge the ogre builds for him.

Taro enters the bamboo grove looking for his dinner and comes away with much more that he expected.