# Dog loves books # He reads them every day
# It's time for an adventure
# Dog and Pug will lead the way!
# Let's travel to a distant land Or deep under the sea
# Spooky castle or a pirate ship
# To help us solve a mystery
# Oh...
# Bow-wow-ser!
# Dog loves books! #
Dog loves books.
I love the smell of them.
HE SNIFFS
I love the sound of them.
But most of all and best of all,
I love books that can teach you new things.
Dog, do you think I can teach the bookshop mice to dance?
It's not a point I've pondered before, Pug.
I might be really good at it.
Unless I'm not.
There's only one way to find out, Pug. Bookshop mice!
Would you like Pug to teach you to dance?
CHEERING
I'll play a tune and see what happens.
HE PLAYS A JOLLY TUNE
Ah! What's happening, Dog?
It's a power cut, Pug.
They sometimes happen in cities.
I can't see if the mice are doing good dancing or not.
SQUEAKING
How long will not seeing anything go on for?
It could be a minute or an hour or all-night.Soggy doggy biscuits!
We might as well sleep until the sun comes up
and things get interesting again.
Or perhaps we have a book in the shop that might help us.
To the wheelie-ladder, Dog. To the wheelie-ladder, Pug.
Erm, ooh... I think it's over here.
Be very careful, Dog.
Now, push me past the books.
Bumpy books. Lumpy books.
Ah!
Books that come with a torch.
This is a book about a world where it is always dark.
And it's called A Night To Remember.
"Our world is divided into two worlds,
"one of light and one of night..."
OWL HOOTS
This is a city of night, Dog.
We can see because of the moon.
It's a very shiny moon, perhaps it's just been polished!
BLEATING
W-What was that?
SHRIEKING
And that?
Twit-twoo-oo!And that?
Questions ve vill answer on our vildlife safari.
This is Bella.This is Lee.
I am Dog and this is Pug.
I've never seen some things like you before.Ve are bats.
Ve're nocturnal.
That means we sleep in the day and go out at night
and we're not the only ones.
Please follow us on our tour.
DISCORDANT MEOWING
How curious. Here we see the Catford Cats Choir.
Who meet every evening to sing to the moon.
I'm sure the moon must enjoy it. Here comes their conductor.
THEY MEOW IN TUNE
Bravo!
I've never heard cats sing like that before.
Ve now continue with our tour.
Here, we see the Foxton family doing their shopping.
FOX BARKS
They do their shopping in rubbish bins?
You'd be surprised what is thrown away.Here comes their mother.
Reynard, Tod! What have I told you?
BOTH:Don't go shopping in number 23.
They eat nothing but fried chicken
and you know that's not good for you.
BOTH:But we like fried chicken, Mum.
At number 29, they have different
things to eat for a lovely balanced diet.
A proper five-a-day, and I don't mean five chickens, boys.
I've never seen foxes shopping in the city before.
We now continue vith our tour.
Now, ve need to be quiet.
Ve are about to see the rarest of all night creatures.
Ah!Ooh!
These are people. Give me number nine, Baz.
What are they talking about?
Ve think they are making a nest in the ground.
Or trying to fix a thing that went wrong with the city before all
the other people wake up. BOTH:No! Ho, ho, ho!
Huh? What was that?Dogs and bats.
I never seen dogs and bats being friends before.
They must wait till we're asleep before they start.
Quickly, ve must leave.We don't want to scare them away.
Flap away, flap away!
And that concludes our vildlife safari.
BOTH:That's all, folks!
Wahay!Hooray!
It was very good, Lee and Bella.
We saw all sorts of things we've never seen before.
And the moon enjoyed it too, it's looking even shinier now.
Here comes the sun, Bella. It's nearly our bedtime.
Night is really just a different kind of day.
SNORING
Hm?
Wh... Wha... What's that?
Dog, your nose is sleeping and I think the rest of you is too.
SNORING CONTINUES
It's only Lee and Bella's bedtime. You have to read a book.
A...A book?! A book?!
Oh, sorry, Pug. It's been a long day. I mean night. I mean day.
"And there will always be another as sure as the moon becomes the sun
"becomes the moon and light and night change places.
"The end."
That is my new favourite book. Bow-wow-ser!
It looks like Gaz and Baz have fixed the thing that went wrong
with the city. I miss it being dark, Dog.
I wish there was a way we could have night and day at the same time. Hm?
Hm?
Mm.
MICE SQUEAK
DOG LAUGHS
Dog, the mice can dance. I just needed to open a disco.
Ho, ho, ho! The mice do like strutting their funky stuff
and Dog, Dog loves books.
Bow-wow-ser!
Ah!
SQUEAKING
Dog Loves Books!