My Friend Rabbit

Rabbit:
Guess what. It's Jasper's birthday.

Hazel:
Jasper's birthday? That's bushy-tail special.

Rabbit:
Quiver me whiskers. We still don't have a gift for Jasper. What a kerfuffle.

Mouse:
I'm gonna build sand animals. What are you gonna do at the pond?

Rabbit:
Swim till my tail gets soggy.

Rabbit:
Maybe the worms can help us look.

Worm:
Huh?

Coral:
Maybe they're buried at the pond.

Jade, Amber, Pearl:
Coral!

Coral:
It was worth a try.

[first lines]

["Branching Out"]

Mouse:
Have you ever tried to sleep somewhere other than your own bed? Sometimes it's not easy. That's what my friend Rabbit found out the night we all invited him to share our sleeping spots. It all started on a windy evening just before bedtime.

Rabbit:
I wanna sleep in my own cozy, warm, dark, dry, safe, quiet sleeping hole. But this big thing's in the way and I can't think of how to move it. I'm so tired, I can't think of anything.

[last lines]

["Branching Out"]

Mouse:
We never did move the big branch that was blocking the doorway to Rabbit's sleeping hole. But, working together, we dug two new doorways, and even made his cozy, warm, dark, dry, safe and quiet sleeping hole bigger. Good thing, too, because after all that digging, we were all ready for a nap.

Rabbit:
Thank you for making room for all my friends.

Coral, Jade, Amber, Pearl:
[sigh dreamily]

Edweena:
[snores and trumpets]

Mouse:
Even the one who snores.

[sighs happily]

[first lines]

["Willow Pond Wackadoo"]

Mouse:
Oh, there you are. Have you ever been so hot that you wished it would rain just to cool down? That's what happened to us. It was so hot that I even wanted it to rain.

[a raindrop falls on him]

Mouse:
Ooh. But then something really amazing happened, and all because of a story.

Thunder:
Whoa! I wanna do nose-tapping.

Jasper:
Well, I don't know if you can, because the Wackadoo is just a story.

[last lines]

["Willow Pond Wackadoo"]

Mouse:
[giggles] Well, we didn't get our wish, and we didn't get rain, or tap the Wackadoo's nose because it was only a story. But, hee-hee, we did have lots of fun and forgot about how hot it was and that was better than anything.

Mouse:
This everyone-being-the-leader thing seemed like a good idea, but if everyone is a leader, there's no one to follow. You end up playing by yourself. So we needed to find a way we could all play together.

Rabbit:
But what if we can think up a rainy-day game that you like? Something really, really, really fun.

Mouse:
Fun? In the rain? I don't know.

Rabbit:
Can we try? Pretty please with radishes on top.

Mouse:
He's gonna bug me until I say "yes." Okay. Yes. Fine, we can try.

Thunder:
Hazel's always planning things for us. Let's plan something for her. Come on! We need to tell everyone.

Hazel:
Oh! An acorn! Oh, a rock. Hey, a rock. This would be perfect for my rock collection. If I had a rock collection. Quaking acorns. That's it. If I can't collect acorns, I'll collect other things instead.

Hazel:
Okay, guys, here's how it's done. First, you climb a tree. Then you pick a nut off the branch and stuff it into your cheek. Like this. Then, you carry it up here to my hidey-hole, name the nut, then store it. I'm calling you Shirley. Easy-breezy. Can you do that?

Thunder:
Yes. Uh, no. I can't climb trees.

Rabbit:
Uh oh. I made the hill leak.

Mouse:
Oh my whiskers. That's not a hill. That's the beaver dam! It's what beavers build to keep the pond on the other side. Quick, put the stick back!

Rabbit:
Bye-bye, moon! [snaps his fingers] Disappear! Disappear! Disappear! Disappear! Disappear!

Mouse:
I have to help Rabbit figure this out or he'll snap himself silly.

Mouse:
The moon fell into the pond.

Rabbit:
Great rolling rutabagas. I snapped the moon out of the sky and sunk it.

Mouse:
I can't get to sleep without my Mossy. That's why I was so upset when it got lost. Well, wouldn't you be? Oh, I still get weak whiskers just thinking about it.

Hazel:
Quaking acorns, I've got it! Mouse, you need to keep busy. That way, at the end of the day, you'll be so tired you could sleep on a bed of thorns.

Hazel:
This is not good. I've been stuck in a tree, stuck in a rut, stuck for an answer, and stuck in the snow, but I've never been stuck in the mud. Until now. And I wanna be unstuck!

Pearl, Jade, Coral, Amber:
[singing] Oh, Pilly, my Pilly / You're so nice and sweet and silly / I'll give you some water / I'll make you a bed / I'll keep you safe right here on my head.

Hazel:
[suggesting ideas for Pearl's nest] And, of course, you'll need places for keeping nuts and combing your fur and -

Pearl:
But I don't have nuts or fur. I just want it soft.

Amber:
That's a frog.

Thunder:
But he has pretty spots and a pretty ribbit. Hee hee hee hee.

Amber:
Aw, he is pretty. But if I try to sleep on a froggy, I might get hopped out of my nest.

Mouse:
[regarding the Gibble Geese] Having separate nests didn't work. They missed each other.

Mouse:
Thunder, we have a surprise for you.

Thunder:
Surprise? I can do surprises.

[first lines]

["Strange Bee-havior"]

Mouse:
Oh, hi, I bet you're wondering why there's a flower petal stuck my back. Funny story.

Edweena:
Bees here. Here too. Yikes! More bees! They're everywhere.

Rabbit:
Edweena, they're following you!

[last lines]

["Strange Bee-havior"]

Mouse:
So that's how we finally got to enjoy Batilda's story. Once we started thinking about why the bees were hanging around Edweena, we solved the problem. I guess sometimes it helps to look at things a new way.

Rabbit:
Ha ha ha. Whee!

Thunder:
Hey, you're upside-down. Hee-hee.

Edweena:
No, you are.

Thunder:
No, you are. Hee hee hee.

Mouse:
And it's fun, too. That's why we're playing bats now.

Thunder:
Whoops. Hee-hee.

[first lines]

["The Flighty Fly"]

Mouse:
Have you ever really wanted to do something, but it seemed like you were just too small? That's what happened to me today. It all started with my friend Rabbit's new invention.

Mouse:
That flighty fly looks like more fun than a puddle of polliwogs.

[last lines]

["The Flighty Fly"]

Mouse:
So being small didn't stop me from flying the flighty fly after all. I even got to do something Rabbit and my bigger friends couldn't do - ride on the flighty fly. Rabbit thought that it looked like loads of fun, so guess what he's doing. He's building one big enough for all of us to ride on. Heh heh. I think we're gonna need a few more leaves and a lot more wind.