Toddler & Us is published within Japan by Hakusensha, and these are published around English by VIZ Media in the magazine Shojo Beat.

Takuya Enoki (榎木拓也 Enoki Takuya) doesn't have a mother. Takuya loses his mother, Yukako Enoki (榎木 由加子 Enoki Yukako) while she dies within the car accident. He is merely twelve years old, & in a fifth grade at the period of Yukako's dying. Takuya at present accept his father, Harumi Enoki (榎木春美 Enoki Harumi), & his little ones brother, Minoru Enoki (榎木実 Enoki Minoru). Takuya’s young child brother is exclusively both years old, & very much of confident is required. Although Takuythe is however the fifth grader, he cooks, cleans, sews, scolds, & does all about that is usually a mother's job. Because he has further task to act in & has to look fallowing his little one brother, Takuythe begins to sense a helpless gap between his friends world health organization use fun everyday when school. Neighbors blame him for Minoru's crying condition. His stress builds higher step by step & bursts at the point, & he feels an uncontrollable hate towards Minoru, world health organization is stressing him & ingesting higher 100% his period.

Of these day, once Takuythe picks Minoru higher from either preschool, he starts to hike within a pace that is as well convenient for Minoru. However presently, Takuya understands what he has done & diarrhea back. He finds Minoru by having his eyes good of the water system, for a brutal pooch was blocking Minoru's way. Takuya dashes fully speed, & saves his little brother. After he eventually arrives at home & understands Minoru sob, he understands that Minoru cries because he is upright lonely, & becomes ashamed of himself. From either so, Takuythe learned to love his little brother as the personal, & his hanker life history of existence a mother & a brother at another time begins.

When period pass by, Takuya Enoki bit by bit adapts to his role in the personal. A bit of of his friends around school such as Akihiro Fujii (藤井昭広 ''Fuji'we Akihiro) & Tadashi Gotoh (後藤正 Gotō Tadashi), keep close at h& little brothers and sisters that attend Minoru’s preschool, & come Minoru’s friends.

A elaborated life style of an simple little one is extremely praised around several aspects. A feelings of humans come found super closely, & a naturalistic descriptions of Takuya’s life come one of a praised points around Marimo Ragawa’s comics. Non sole a story’s plots & details, however a horse barn, uninfected drawings of her comedian is too one of a attractive points. So, Toddler & Us'' was honored by having a Fortieth Shogakukan Comic Award (（第４０回小学館漫画賞）) around 1995 & likewise, it was animated in 1996. Another works of Marimo Ragawa include Just released York New York, Shanimuni-Last, & several extra.