Original subtitles

[energetic music]

- Oh!

[mouse laughing]

♪ 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

[cheerful instrumental music]

- [Little Nutbrown Hare] I want to fly.

- [Narrator] It was a cool autumn morning

and Big Nutbrown Hare was still asleep.

[Big Hare blowing] [Little Hare giggling]

But Little Nutbrown Hare was already wide awake!

[Little Hare giggling]

- Whoa! - Wake up and see!

Wake up and see!

- [sighing] It sounds like it's important.

- Yes, it is important.

[Little Hare huffing]

See?

The autumn leaves.

They're even prettier today than yesterday.

- Yes, I love this time of year.

Each day brings new colors.

[Little Hare huffing]

- Look!

There's a red one, and a purple, and an orange.

Oh, and even a yellow one!

Ah, this is the prettiest leaf of them all!

Hey, come back leaf!

Oh, oh, oh! [giggling]

- Go on, you can catch it, Little Nutbrown Hare!

- Oh!

Hmm.

I've got you now!

[wind whooshing] Oh!

I'll never get it up there.

No one will get it now!

[bird chirping]

Except a bird!

I wish I could fly like Bluebird.

- Oh, yes, I do too, Little Nutbrown Hare.

Lots of animals wish they could fly, but can't.

- Really?

[bee buzzing]

Bees fly.

Oh, ew!

Brr!

[laughing] [wings buzzing]

Hmm, dragonflies can fly.

Even wriggly, crawly caterpillars get to fly.

When they turn into butterflies.

Oh, well I guess you can't fly, little brown beetle.

Oh!

Well, you looked like you couldn't fly.

Maybe we can fly!

Have you ever tried?

- [chuckling] No, I don't think I have.

- Then how do you know we can't fly?

- Because I think we might need wings to fly.

- We might not have wings, but we have big ears.

You try it!

Flap, flap.

- Flap, flap.

- That's it.

Now let's fly!

- [Big & Little Nutbrown Hare] Flap, flap, flap, flap.

- Oh, whoops.

[Little Hare giggling]

- Whoa!

[giggling]

Brr!

That was fun Big Nutbrown Hare,

but I don't think it was flying.

Huh? [Fieldmouse panting]

Hello, Little Fieldmouse.

- Hello, Little Nutbrown Hare.

What are you doing?

- We were trying to fly, but I don't think we did.

- Flying, I love to fly!

Have you tried flapping your arms?

- No, do you think that would work?

- Well, it works for birds.

- Then let's try!

[giggling]

- Flappity-flippity-flap.

- Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap! [giggling]

[panting] We're still on the ground.

- I think I flew a little bit.

[bird chirping]

- Hmm, how does Bluebird do it?

Bluebird!

- Oh, hello!

- How do you fly?

We flap our arms and our ears, but nothing happens.

- Well, I've got feathers.

They help me fly.

- Oh, we don't have feathers.

- No, we don't.

- Oh. [wind whooshing]

- [Little Hare & Mouse] Oh!

- Look leaves are a bit like feathers.

Maybe they will work just as well.

May I borrow these, please?

- Of course.

There's no shortage of leaves in autumn.

- I've got some too!

- Can you show us how you fly, Bluebird?

- Well, I've never really thought about how I fly.

I just do it, but I'll try and explain.

- That's a good idea, asking Bluebird.

She knows all about flying.

If you need my help, I'll be lying down just over there

watching you and thinking about flying.

Yes, I do some of my best thinking while I'm lying down.

- So how do you do it, Bluebird?

- Well, what I do is I just flap my wings and fly.

[Little Hare & Mouse huffing]

- And if that doesn't work?

- Well sometimes I take a running start like this.

Then I start to flap my wings, then a gust of wind comes by.

I flap harder and run faster and jump!

And I'm flying!

- Wow!

- Let's do that!

[Little Hare & Mouse huffing]

- Get ready, set, and jump!

- [Little Nutbrown Hare & Mouse] Whoa! [giggling]

- How did the flying go?

- It didn't.

We tried standing and jumping.

And running and jumping.

I tried flying with leaves, without leaves,

flapping my ears, and flapping my arms,

but nothing worked.

- Never mind, Little Nutbrown Hare.

I didn't have much luck with my thinking either.

- You didn't?

- No.

I think the ground was just too hard

for good lying down and thinking.

But, you know what?

Maybe if we made a big comfortable pile of leaves

we could all lie on it and have a really good think

about how to fly.

- You think so?

- Oh, yes.

The bigger the pile of leaves, the more comfortable

it will be and the easier it will be for us to think.

- So let's build a really big pile of leaves.

- The biggest pile of leaves. [laughing]

- I'll help!

- All right, here is the start!

[panting & giggling]

- Look at this one!

[Little Hare & Mouse huffing]

You're so fast, Little Nutbrown Hare.

- Whoo, whoops!

Ho, oh, ho!

[panting]

Oh, that's some pile.

- It's the biggest I've ever seen!

- And we all helped.

- Little Nutbrown Hare may not be able to fly,

but he can hop really fast.

- Faster than anyone!

- Yeah, I guess I can,

but Little Fieldmouse found the prettiest leaves.

- Thank you, and Bluebird was able

to put the leaves on the very top.

- Yes, I suppose I did.

- And I'm good at thinking.

- So everyone is good at something.

- Yes, you're absolutely right, Little Nutbrown Hare.

- I must get busy now.

Goodbye, everyone!

- See ya' later!

- Now, let's see if this is a good lying down

and thinking pile of leaves.

Ready?

- [Little Nutbrown Hare And Mouse] Ready!

- [Everyone] Whoa! [giggling]

- Ah, have you thought of anything yet?

- Yes!

- Already?

- Well, everyone's good at something.

Some are fast, some can fly,

and I guess some are good thinkers.

I have thought of a way that you can fly.

- Yeah!

How?

- Like this!

- [Together] Whee!

- I'm flying!

- [Together] Whee!

- Coming in for landing!

- Whoa! [giggling]

Do it again, do it again!

- Me too, me too! [laughing]

- [Narrator] That evening as Little Nutbrown Hare

snuggled into bed beside his father, he was still excited.

- I had fun today.

- I know you did.

- Even when I wasn't flying,

but flying was the best fun of all.

- Hmm, I'm glad you liked it.

- Guess how much I love you?

- How much?

- More than all the times you flew me round and round,

and round and round today.

- Then guess how much I love you?

More than all the times I'mgoing to fly you round and round

and round and round and round tomorrow. [laughing]

[lively instrumental music]

[dog yapping]