Ojiisan no Suberidai is a children's story by Shoko Hama. Ryota looks at the slide left behind after the old man has disappeared and begins to feel himself within a larger continuity of life, like the rings of a long-lived tree.

The memory held in a slide leads a boy into a larger current of life.

Panyaki Konkuru is a children's story included in Akira Ogura's Tremos no Panya. When a similar bakery opens in front of Porto's shop, a baker proud of his repeated contest victories, rivalry and unease set the story in motion.

A new shop appearing before the town's best bakery unsettles a craftsman's heart.

Majo no Ko Mocchi is a fantasy children's book by Yuka Inoue. Raised by a great owl, Mocchi rides the legendary bird Pyoruru to a desert oasis, where she encounters both the happiness and fear found in the human world.

A girl called a witch's child touches human happiness and loneliness in an oasis village.