While visiting her grandmother, Nora joins with the animated toys from an old chest to bring the stars down from the night sky, but their loss makes the sky black and sad.
A young boy named Mustafa ventures out of his father's carpet shop into the marketplace--under a carpet that makes him look like a rooster--where he learns about the languages of the tourists and brings his father new customers in the process.
Ballerina Bear Barbara, who lives in a child's room in Paris, discovers that while it is nice to make new friends, old friends should never be forgotten.
Feeling neglected when Danny goes to sleep with his new stuffed animals rather than with him, Pangoo runs away to the zoo to live with the real-life penguins.