When various forest animals discover a mysterious object in the woods, they each use it for a different purpose, until a boy reads stories aloud from it, much to the animals' delight.
When a child made of marzipan candy mysteriously comes to life her loving parents and friends shelter and protect her, but there comes a time when she must risk herself for a friend.
Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.