[bright music]
- [gasps] Oh!
[giggling]
♪ Dancing through springtime flowers ♪
♪ And rays of summer sun
♪ Catching wet snowflakes on your nose ♪
♪ Running through autumn leaves ♪
♪ That float from trees on high ♪
♪ With a love that is bigger than the sky ♪
♪ Guess how much I love you
[bright music]
- [Child] Can you touch the stars?
- [Narrator] One warm evening, Little Nutbrown Hare
and Little Field Mouse were enjoying a story.
- It was springtime and I was hunting
for treasures in the forest when I found these!
- [Both] Wow! Beautiful flowers!
[sniffs]
Mm, mm and they smell good, too!
Achoo! Oops!
[laughing]
- That evening, I collected many, many treasures.
But the one I wanted most of all
was up in the night sky.
- [Both] Oh!
- Look, a star!
So sparkly!
- A treasure!
- Treasure?
- Yes, the first star of the evening
is the most special treasure of all.
- What happened next, Little White Owl?
- I made a wish.
- A wish?
- Star light, star bright.
The first star I see tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might
have the wish I wish tonight.
- [gasps] What did you wish for?
- I can't tell you my wish.
[sighs]
But I can tell you what happened.
[both sighing]
I closed my eyes and when I opened them again,
a big shiny star appeared right above my tree.
So close I could almost reach out and touch it.
A special treasure just for me.
- Really?
- Wow, is that a true story, Little White Owl?
- It is true that it is my story.
[giggles]
Now I'm off to explore the wonders of the night.
Good night.
- Goodbye. - Goodbye Little White Owl!
- [Little White Owl] Woohoo!
- Hmm...
I wish I could touch a star.
- But how?
Oh, let's go and find Big Nutbrown Hare.
- Yes! He'll know.
[panting]
Where are you Big Nutbrown Hare?
- Over here!
Hello you two.
- Look, it's Little White Owl's star.
- Oh, what are you doing Little Nutbrown Hare?
- Trying to touch the star.
- Me too!
- Oh, I see.
Uh no, I mean, I can't see a thing.
Oo, careful, be careful!
[all exclaiming and laughing]
- The stars are very far away.
If we are going to touch one,
we need to be taller or higher!
- [gasps] The hill!
- Race you to the top!
[panting]
- Don't be long!
Meet me at the river!
- Okay!
- [Both] I'm winning!
Wow!
- [Little Nutbrown Hare] Look at all the sparkling stars!
- Yes, so many.
- [Little Nutbrown Hare] Look, some of them make pictures.
That one look likes a twinkling carrot.
- Yes, and over there a twinkling mouse!
- Where?
- There!
With a long shiny tail made of twinkling stars.
- Come on, let's touch one!
- Jump higher, we need to be higher!
[giggles]
Go up on your tip toes, Little Nutbrown Hare.
I'm nearly there!
Whoa, not again!
[laughing]
- Oh, it's no good.
We're never going to touch a star.
- Yes we are!
Let's go!
- Okay, but where are we going?
[bright music]
- [Little Field Mouse] Wait for me!
- [Little Nutbrown Hare] We're nearly there!
- Huh, huh?
- Hello Little Gray Squirrel!
Huh? [gasps]
You're not being tricky, are you?
[giggling]
- Huh?
Where are you Little Gray Squirrel?
- I'm up here, of course!
- You are being tricky.
- You're funny. [laughs]
- Come on up!
Grab that branch.
- Okay!
[grunting]
- Let me try. Got it!
Whoa! - Woo hoo!
- [Little Field Mouse] Whoa, it's very high up here.
- What are you two up to?
- Trying to touch a star.
- We thought we might be able to reach one up in your tree.
- Let's try.
- Come on star, come closer!
[giggling]
- You stay still, Little Nutbrown Hare.
I'll get one for you.
[exclaiming]
- Did you get one?
- It's no good.
They're just out of reach.
[sighs]
- [gasps] Oh, hello blue bird!
Over here!
- Oh, hello!
What on Earth are you all doing up a tree?
- We're touching stars.
- Well, we're trying to, anyway.
- Goodness!
- [gasps] You can fly, blue bird.
Maybe you can fetch us a star.
- [giggles] Oh, Little Nutbrown Hare.
The stars are much too high up, even for me.
[sighs]
And besides, it's late and my babies are waiting.
Good night!
- Good bye!
Oh, Big Nutbrown Hare will be waiting for me.
- You better get going, Little Nutbrown Hare.
- See you later.
- Hey, wait for me!
I'm coming too!
- Careful!
- [Both] Whoa!
- We're okay!
[sighs]
[gentle music]
Big Nutbrown Hare!
Here we are!
[Little Field Mouse giggling]
- Ah, so you are.
- Oh, look, it's like a field of sparkly white flowers.
- Have you touched one yet?
- Nearly.
- No, not even a little one. [sighs]
- Oh.
- [Little Nutbrown Hare] Stars are very tiny.
- Even tinier than flowers, like this.
- Well, it does look that way.
But it's only because stars are so very far away.
- [Kids] Oh.
- Look there.
- Huh?
Are there stars in the river?
- Go on, touch one.
[giggles]
- Oh!
- How does a star feel?
- Well, much colder and wetter
than I thought a star would feel.
- Let me try.
[gasps] - Hello!
- Otter!
- Otter.
- What's wrong?
- The stars have gone away, look.
- Oh, look now.
- [gasps] Oh, they're back!
- It's a moon sparkle that looks like a star.
- In the water.
- I guess we sort of got to touch a star after all.
Didn't we?
- Mm, you certainly did.
- Yay!
[groans and sighs]
[sighing]
- Oh, come on my Little Nutbrown Hare.
Even your ears are too tired to stay up.
- Time for sleep.
Good night, Little Field Mouse.
Good night, Otter.
- Tomorrow is another day.
- Sleep tight!
- See you in the morning light.
- [Narrator] Snuggled uptogether under the old oak tree,
Little Nutbrown Hare and his father
gazed up at the bright, beautiful night sky.
- Look at all the twinkling pictures.
- Where, Little Nutbrown Hare?
- Up there, a twinkling carrot.
- Oh, I see it!
It looks tasty, too.
- And over there, a twinkling mouse
with a twinkly, starry tail.
- [gasps] Yes, yes, oh and look.
Over there, a sparkling hare.
- [giggles] Do you think he's going to eat the carrot?
[giggles]
So many sparkly stars.
- Mm, so very many.
[sighs]
Guess how much I love you.
- Okay...
One, two, three.
You love me more than three stars up in the sky.
- Nope, even more.
I love you more than 100 stars in the sky.
- Well, I love you more than all the stars in the sky.
[bright music] [chuckling]
[bright music]