Original subtitles

[cheerful music]

- Oh!

[laughter]

♪ Dancing through springtime flowers ♪

♪ And races in 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

[playful music]

- [Child's Voice] "The Big Apple. "

- [Narrator] The meadow was ablaze

with autumn leaves of red, yellow, and gold.

Little Nutbrown Hare was playing under an apple tree.

In fact, it was a perfectly ordinary autumn day.

But it wasn't going to stay ordinary for long.

[wind blows]

- Oh, look, Big Nutbrown Hare!

- Aha.

- The last apple in the tree!

[grunting]

I can't reach it; I'm too little.

- Hm.

- Could you please pick it for me?

- I will if you like, but first,

let me tell you about a time

when I was a little Nutbrown Hare.

- Tell me; tell me!

What happened when you were a little Nutbrown Hare?

- I saw a bunch of beech nuts

that were just out of reach on the branch of a tree.

It was late on a cold afternoon.

I thought about going home, but instead...

- What did you do?

- Even though it was getting dark and cold,

I stayed until I finally reached those beech nuts.

- Oh!

- That night, we ate them for dinner.

I was so proud.

- I want to get us some food

just like you did, Big Nutbrown Hare.

- And soon you will.

Now, let me pick --

- No, don't!

- Are you sure?

- Sure.

- Well, I'm going to the river.

Do you want to come?

- No thank you.

I'm going to pick that apple for us.

- Aha, I look forward to that!

- Hm.

Maybe I can make myself taller

by stretching!

Come on, stre-e-etch!

- [Little Fieldmouse] What are you doing?

[shouts in surprise]

[laughter]

- I didn't know you were there, Little Fieldmouse.

- What were you doing?

- Trying to pick that apple, see?

- Oh, it's a big one.

- Yes, I want to get us some food

just like Big Nutbrown Hare did when he was little.

He picked a bunch of beech nuts

that were high up in tree

just like this apple.

- I can help you!

[makes thinking noises]

Let's shake the tree and make the apple fall off!

[grunting]

[both grunting]

[sighs]

I know!

I'll climb up the tree.

[grunts]

It's too high.

I know, let's build a pile of leaves up to the apple!

- Okay.

[playful working music]

[leaves rustle]

- I'll go first!

Agh, whoo!

[gasps]

[laughter]

- Whoa.

It's not working, Little Field Mouse.

I can't get that apple.

Maybe I'm just too little.

- But I wonder how Big Nutbrown Hare

reached those beech nuts when he was little.

- Of course, we can ask him.

He's down by the river.

- To the river!

[upbeat scurrying music]

- There he is!

- Hello, Big Nutbrown Hare!

- Hm, oh, did you pick the apple?

- Well, no.

But that's why we're here.

- We need to know how you picked those beech nuts

when you were a little Nutbrown Hare.

- Oh?

- Yes, the ones that were on a high branch

like my apple.

- I'll tell you if you like, but first,

let me show you something amazing.

The salmon are running.

- The what are running?

- See those fish?

They're called salmon.

- [Little Nutbrown Hare and Little Field Mouse] Wow!

- They are running!

- Where are they going?

- Upstream, back to the very same pond they were born in.

They do it every autumn.

- Can we follow them?

- Ohoh, good idea.

- Up the river we go!

- Yay!

[river babbling]

Look at them all!

- It's so big and red!

- Oh yes, hello Big Red Salmon!

[water rippling]

- Did you see that one?

It was long and had speckles on it.

- Hello, Long Speckled Salmon.

- Hello!

- And look at that little one!

It's pink!

- Oh, she's my favorite.

- Hello.

- [together] Little Pink Salmon!

[laughter]

- Oh look, they're going further upstream.

[gasps]

[river babbling]

- Look, a waterfall.

They can't swim up that.

- The pool where they were born

is at the top of the waterfall.

They have to swim up it.

- But how?

[water rippling]

[gasps]

- [in unison] Wow!

- How do they do that?

- It's something they just have to do.

- It's like they're flying.

[water rippling]

That was Big Red Salmon.

[gasps]

He did it!

And here comes Long Speckled Salmon!

She made it too.

[cheering]

- Look, there's Little Pink Salmon.

- There she goes!

- Oh no, she can't make it.

She can't get up the waterfall.

It's because she's too small.

- What will she do?

- Will they leave her behind?

- Let's watch, shall we?

[water rushing]

- She's swimming away from the waterfall.

- Has she given up?

No, she's trying again.

From further back.

- She'll make it this time.

[sighs]

- It's no use.

She's too little to make the jump.

[water rippling]

- [Little Field Mouse] She's trying again!

- From even further back this time.

[cheering]

[cheerful music]

She did it!

[cheering]

She didn't give up.

- She kept on trying until she made it.

- That's right.

- It's like my apple.

- Oh, how's that?

- Well, I can't reach my apple,

and Little Pink Salmon couldn't reach

the top of the waterfall.

Well, not at first anyway.

- You're right, Little Nutbrown Hare!

If you want to reach that apple,

then you've got to think like a fish.

- Think like a fish.

[grunting]

- Remember Little Pink Salmon!

[noise of affirmation]

He's taking a bigger run up.

Just like Little Pink Salmon did.

[grunting]

- Don't give up.

Remember: think like a fish.

- He's not giving up.

He's taking an even bigger run up now!

[panting]

[branch rustles]

[grunting]

- Wow!

[cheering]

I got it for all of us.

- Wonderful, just what you wanted.

How do you feel now?

- I feel like I got more.

- More what?

- More than just the apple.

- Because now you're good at gathering food?

- Yes, but it feels like even more than that.

- What do you mean?

- You see, I love getting the apple,

but what I love even more is how I got the apple.

- And how was that?

- I tried harder and harder, and I didn't give up.

That feels better than having a whole pile of apples.

[laughter]

Would you like the first bite, Little Field Mouse?

- Yes please, I'm so hungry for apples!

[giggleS]

[laughter]

- [Narrator] Little Nutbrown Hare knew the day

was near its end.

He wondered if he would ever forget this day

because it hadn't been ordinary at all.

It had been extraordinary.

- You never told me how you picked those beech nuts

when you were little.

- Well, I kept jumping and jumping,

and I didn't give up, just like you did today.

[sighs]

- Guess how much I love you.

- As much as you wanted to pick that apple?

- More.

- Then as much as Little Pink Salmon

wanted to get up that waterfall?

- Even more than that.

- As much as you tried hard today?

- Yes.

- Wow, that's really a lot.

[laughter]

[upbeat music]

[dog barking]