Original subtitles

[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

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ Guess how much I love you

♪ 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]