A collection of short stories about a four year old growing up in a small town in Japan in the early 1980s. Nori's parents work full time so she's raised primarily be her grandmother. She attends pre-school, follows stranger's dogs into parks, finds frogs in the ditch, dances with the bats that come into house. In one chapter Nori and her grandmother fly to Hawaii and stay with a Japanese family bed and breakfast, and Nori makes friends with the daughter of the family and learns to swim. The stories are domestic, sweet, whimsical, drawn in a loose brush pen.