Original subtitles

[cheerful music plays]

- Oh! [giggles]

♪ Dancing through spring time

♪ Flowers are raised on the 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

[peaceful music]

- [Little Nutbrown Hair] Big storm!

- [Narrator] It was a hot summer's day in the meadow.

Too hot even for Big Nutbrown Hare

to brush away the flies.

[sniffing]

- [Little Nutbrown Hair] Hey, you're it.

- Huh,

no.

You're it.

- You're it.

- You're it.

Oh. [giggles]

All right, I'm in.

- Ugh.

[sighs] Is it always going to be hot?

- I know it feels like it Little Nutbrown Hare,

but it will get cool again.

- [groans] When?

- When the time is right.

Nature is a wonderful thing.

[birds chirp]

- Hm? [sniffs]

Hm.

[dramatic music]

In fact, a cool change might be on its way already.

[peaceful music]

[sighs]

- That's cooler.

- Hm, might be more than just a cool change.

- Who was it?

- I was, but now you are!

[giggles]

- Not for long.

[sighs]

[thunder crackles]

[giggles]

- Now you're it.

What's that?

[thunder crackles]

- That's natures way of telling us a storm

is on its way,

and we should get under shelter. [thunder roars]

Come on you too, this way.

- Now you're it. [giggles]

Can't get me!

- [Little Field Mouse] Yes I can!

Ugh, you're it.

[giggles]

- [Little Nutbrown Hair] The tree!

- [giggles] Not this time.

We need to go somewhere inside to get out of the storm.

Let's go to the cave.

- The cave!

Hurray!

- Yes, I'll race you there.

Last one in the cave is it.

[giggling]

- Okay, it's a race!

[panting]

[laughing]

[giggles]

[gasps]

- Oh it's you, Little Redwood Fox.

- Tricked you!

- Come on, quick.

- [Little Field Mouse] From Big Nutbrown Hare!

- Where are you off to in such a hurry?

- We're going into the cave

to hide from the storm,

last one there is it.

- All right.

[laughs]

- [Little Redwood Fox] Little White Squirrel.

- Huh?

We're getting out of the storm.

Last one to the cave is it.

- Hey, I'm coming too!

[laughs]

[pants]

- Oh! [giggles]

[thunder roars]

- Hey, I'm first.

[gasps]

Whoa!

[giggles]

[laughs]

- [Big Nutbrown Hare] In you go!

- I could have got here first too.

[sighs] But I ran out of puff!

- At least you didn't come last.

- [laughs] No, that would be me.

- Then you're it, Big Nutbrown Hair.

- I am, oh no!

[laughs]

[thunder crackles]

[gasps]

- What was that?

- It was thunder and lightning.

The sounds made by a storm,

but it's all right.

We're safe in here.

They can't come into the cave.

- Not even a little bit.

- Not even the teensiestlittle bit, Little Field Mouse.

[sighs]

- What is lightning anyway?

- It looks like cracks in the sky.

- I think it's a giant acorn throwing big sticks of light.

- [laughs] Lightning is part of nature,

just like the rain and the wind.

[thunder crackles]

- Oh!

- And it can be exciting to watch,

the way it lights everything up.

[rain pours]

[thunder crackles]

[children gasp]

- As long as you're safely inside.

[thunder crackles]

- Oh!

- It's all right, Little Nutbrown Hare.

Thunder is just a loud noise,

and loud noises can't hurt you.

What other loud noises can you think of?

- Shouting!

- Singing!

- [laughs] Laughing!

- Yes, and they don't hurt you, do they?

Even very loud laughter.

[laughs]

[rain pours]

[laughs]

- Hoo, hello.

What are you all laughing at?

Can't you hear the thunder and lightning?

- It's all right, Little White Owl.

We're all safe in here.

- Lightning can't get into the cave.

Not even the teensiest, tiniest bit.

- Ooh, I was fast asleep,

when suddenly the thunder woke me up.

- Oh.

- That was nature's way of telling you

to find shelter from the storm.

- You did the right thing coming here.

- We've been watching the storm.

- Oh!

- Hoo, see!

There it goes again.

- It's just a loud noise, Little White Owl.

It can't hurt you.

- The storms going away.

- How can you tell?

- The longer it takes to hear it,

after you see the lightning,

the further away the storm is.

Now count.

- One,

two,

three,

four,

five!

[thunder crackles]

Yay!

- Is that a long time?

- Longer then last time.

Which means the storm is definitely going away.

- Yay!

- I'll have a look.

Oh, I think it's gone!

- Are you sure?

- Oh, yes!

Everything has stopped.

Even the rain.

- Well, I'm going back home to sleep.

Good bye!

- Good bye Little White Owl.

- Good bye, sleep well!

- Is it safe?

- Very safe, Little Nut Brown Hair.

It will be nice and dry out there now.

Come on, let's go and see.

[peaceful music]

- Ah!

[sniffs]

Wow!

[air rushes]

The air smells so fresh and clean.

- And it's lovely and cool.

- Remember what I said earlier?

Nature is a wonderful thing.

- Look!

The leaves have blown off the trees.

- The leaves will grow back.

- The storm sure has made a big mess.

- But look.

It's made something beautiful too.

- Ah!

- Wow!

- [Crowd] Wow!

- [Little Nutbrown Hair] A rainbow!

[peaceful music]

- It's so beautiful!

- And puddles!

[water splashes]

[children giggle]

Puddles, my favorite!

- [Little Field Mouse] [overlapping] Splash!

Oh splash, yippee!

- [Narrator] A little later,

after the others had gone home,

Little Nutbrown Hair And his father headed home too.

They breathed in the fresh cool air,

and marveled at the many colors

hanging above them in the sky.

- Is there always a rainbow after a storm?

- Not always.

- Why is it, that we never seem

to get closer to that rainbow?

- I don't know.

That's the funny thing about rainbows.

There a lot further away than you think.

But I'll tell you what.

- What?

- Guess how much I love you.

- How?

- All the way to the end of that rainbow.

- [giggles] Then guess how much I love you?

All the way to the end of that rainbow and back.

[giggles]

[cheerful music]