Original subtitles

[playful music]

- Oh!

[Little field mouse laughing]

♪ Dancing through springtime flowers ♪

♪ And rays of summer sun

♪ Catching white snowflakes on your nose ♪

♪ Running through autumn leaves ♪

♪ That float from trees from high ♪

♪ With our 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

- [Little Nutbrown Hare] You For a Day.

- [Narrator] It was a sparkling summers morning,

and the sun shone brightly on the Nutbrown Hare's form.

Big Nutbrown Hare woke up.

[yawning]

- Aaaahhhh!

[Little Nutbrown Hare giggling]

- [Narrator] And looked around for his son,

Little Nutbrown Hare.

[Little Nutbrown Hare straining]

- Ooooh, Ooof!

- Wake up Big Nutbrown Hare!

- Ohh ho!

Don't worry, Little Nutbrown Hare.

Aah, I'm wide awake now.

[giggling]

- So is the sun and the wind and the butterflies!

Come and see.

- Yes, it is a glorious day.

- If the sun wakes us up, who wakes the sun up?

- Well, let me see...

Er, the sun--

- Why are butterflies different colors?

- Well, er, that's a good question...

The--

- Where does the wind come from?

- Well, that's...

That's more complicated--

- And where does the wind go?

- That's a lot of big questions

from one little Nutbrown Hare.

[Little Nutbrown Hare giggling]

- I'm sorry.

- Ooh, that's all right.

I like your questions.

[Little Nutbrown Hare giggling]

- But there are a lot of them.

Why don't you ask me some questions for a change?

- Hmmm,

okay.

- Haa, Hmm..

Now,

ask me your hardest question.

- Let me see--

- Wait, I've got an even better idea!

Why don't we swap places for the day?

- You mean, I'll be you and you'll be me?

- Yes, I'll do all your jobs.

Finding food, being grown-up,

and most importantly, lying in the grass

and thinking a lot.

Haaa!

And you'll be me and do

all my jobs.

- And what jobs are they?

- Mmm!

Asking questions, playing with friends,

running around

and eating.

[Big Nutbrown Hare chuckling]

- Oh, those jobs will certainly keep me very busy.

And I'm ready when you are,

Big Nutbrown Hare.

- I'm ready too, Little Nutbrown Hare.

- Oh, it's such fun to be young again.

[giggling]

Not a care in the world.

[giggling]

♪La la la la la la!

- Do you have a question for me, Little Nutbrown Hare?

- Um, yes.

Why are big hares big and little hares little?

- Hmmm!

This is a hard question

and needs some thinking.

Hmm!

I'll get back to you in a while.

[Chewing loudly]

- Oh, but I'm hungry Big Nutbrown Hare.

Aren't you going to look for food?

- Of course, Little Nutbrown Hare.

Now, take my hand and we'll look for food.

- Do you know the answer to my question yet?

- Not yet, Little Nutbrown Hare.

I'm still thinking.

These are blueberries, Little Nutbrown Hare.

They are safe to eat.

- Mmhmmm!

So...

hungry!

[smacking lips]

- Don't eat too many

or you'll give yourself a tummy-ache.

- And be careful you don't eat me.

[Little Field mouse and Little Nutbrown Hare laughing]

- Hello!

- Hello, Little Nutbrown Hare.

This looks like an especially good blueberry bush.

- It is!

Please join us.

- Yes,

these are the yummiest, scrummiest,

chewiest, blueberries.

- Is Big Nutbrown Hare all right?

[Little Nutbrown Hare chuckling]

- We've swapped for the day.

I am being Big Nutbrown Hare,

and he is being me.

- Hello, Little Field mouse.

Have some blueberries.

[Little Field mouse giggling]

- That sounds like a fun game.

I made up a game, too.

- What is it?

- It's a game using twigs.

Do you want to play?

- Ohh, yes please.

Oh,

wait!

I'm supposed to be Big Nutbrown Hare today.

But Little Nutbrown Hare would like to play

the twig game with you.

- Ohh, yes please.

I can't wait to play with my best friend.

[Little Field Mouse giggling]

You're funny, Big, oh, I mean, Little Nutbrown Hare.

- And then you let the twigs go!

- Like this?

- That's right

and then you have to pick up as many twigs as you can,

using another twig and without moving any of the others.

- Mmmm, that sounds hard.

- It's tricky but fun.

Are you sure you don't want to play, Little Nut,

I mean, Big Nutbrown Hare?

- Well, maybe...

No, thank you, Little Field Mouse.

I have to think of an answer

to Little Nutbrown Hare's question.

[sighing]

Why are big hares big

and little hares little?

This won't take long.

Big Nutbrown Hare just lies down

and the answer just comes to him.

Haa!

[Little Field Mouse laughing]

Hooohh!

Big hares big...

[straining loudly]

Little hares little.

[sighing]

It's not easy lying in the grass and thinking.

It's going to be hard to be Big Nutbrown Hare

for a whole day.

- Ooh, I win again!

Now it's your turn to think of a game.

- Me?

- Yes, Little Nutbrown Hare is very good

at thinking up new games.

- Oh, in that case, eh, we could, er...

Ohh, this is hard.

- Well, what about a race?

- All right!

A race.

- To that old stump and back again.

- You're on Little Field mouse.

But you'll have to be pretty fast to beat,

this Little Nutbrown Hare.

- Six times.

- What??!!

- The race is to the stump

and back again, six times.

- Oh, that's a long way.

- And, on one leg.

- Ooh, er, ooh.

I don't know if I can.

[Little Nutbrown Hare panting]

- Well, hopping around and playing with your friends

are some of Little Nutbrown Hare's important jobs.

- Ohh,

then I'll do it.

[Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Field mouse straining loudly]

- On your marks,

get set,

go!

[Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Field mouse straining loudly]

[Little Nutbrown Hare giggling]

- Third time, everybody.

[Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Field mouse panting]

Last time.

Little Field mouse, is the winner!

- [Little Field Mouse laughing] Hoorayyy!

- Oooh, it takes,

a lot of energy,

to be a Little Nutbrown Hare.

[panting] Hooo!

- Maybe we should play a quieter,

sitting-down game.

What about a guessing game?

- Yes!

I'll pretend to be an animal

and you try to guess what it is.

- That sounds like fun.

- Now, here is the first animal.

Croak, croak.

- I know,

an owl.

- No.

Um, here it is again.

Croak, croak.

- A nutbrown hare with a sore throat?

- Noo!

It's a frog.

Croak, croak, croak.

[Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field mouse laughing]

- That's not a frog.

- This is a frog.

- [Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field Mouse] Ribbit,

Ribbit, Ribbit, Ribbit, Ribbit, Ribbit.

- Croak, croak, croak.

- [Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field Mouse] Oooh,

Aaaahhh.

[all laughing]

- Ooh, oh, it's hard being Little Nutbrown Hare

for a day.

- And I think it's hard being Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Ehh, do you want to swap back?

- Yes, please!

- Aah, thank you Little Nutbrown Hare.

- You're welcome, Big Nutbrown Hare.

[All giggling]

- [Narrator] And so, Big Nutbrown Hare

went back to being himself again,

while Little Nutbrown Hare wentback to being himself, too.

- It's fun to be someone else for a while,

but I think it's much easier being, myself.

- [chuckling] And that's just how I like you best.

Mmmmmaah.

- I thought of the answer to your question.

- Why are big hares big and little hares little?

- Big hares are big so they can help little hares

do things and learn things.

And little hares are little

so they can climb into big hares' arms and ask,

"Guess how much I love you?"

- Hmm, as much as you love being a Little Nutbrown Hare?

- No, as much as a Little Nutbrown Hare

could possibly love a Big Nutbrown Hare, ever!

- That certainly is a lot.

- Aah!

[playful music]