Original subtitles

[upbeat music]

- Oh.

[Little Field Mouse giggling]

♪ Dancing through springtimeflowers 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

[calming music]

Moon Dance.

- [Narrator] The winter sun shone down brightly,

warming the meadow.

- Come on, it's over this way. [Little Nutbrown Hare panting]

We're nearly there now.

[Little Nutbrown Hare panting]

Oh, oh yes!

Over here, I found it!

- [panting] Where?

I can't see anything.

[snow swooshing]

- Look, brand new crocus flowers, for you!

- How lovely, thank you!

I've never seen a winter flower before!

- They're a sign that spring's on its way.

- Spring will be here soon, woo-hoo!

- Yes, and these happy little flowers

are reaching up to the winter sun.

- I'm a flower too!

Hello sun, look at my petals.

- Oh, it looks a bit like a spring-is-coming dance!

- That's right, grow, grow like a new spring flower.

[gasping] Look, it's Little Gray Squirrel.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

- It looks like he's dancing, too.

- Little Grey Squirrel, over here!

- Oh!

[Little Gray Squirrel panting]

Good morning!

- Good morning, Little Grey Squirrel.

What are you doing out and about in winter?

- Spring will be here soon,

and I'm too excited to sleep!

- Oh, that's great,

because I want to show you something!

- Have fun you two!

I'm going to head back to our tree.

- Goodbye! - See you soon!

Look, special winter flowers.

- They are very pretty.

- Big Nutbrown Hare showed them to me.

I wish I could show him something wonderfully special too.

- I know, come with me!

[Little Gray Squirrel sniffing]

[Little Nutbrown Hare Sniffing]

[snow swooshing]

- [giggling] Oh.

[Little Gray Squirrel grunting]

[snow swooshing]

[Little Nutbrown Hare panting]

- What are you doing?

- Dancing, just like you.

- [giggling] I'm not dancing.

I'm looking for the acorns I buried in autumn.

- Oh.

- First I test the ground for a hollow sound,

tap, tap, tap, tap.

[snow swooshing]

Then I brush, brush, the snow away!

Yippie, I found them!

Here you go, - Oh.

a special treat to show Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Thank you Little Grey Squirrel.

It is a very wonderful acorn,

but I want to find something that he's never seen before.

- Okay.

- But Little Grey Squirrel--

- Yes?

- I did enjoy your dance.

Can you teach me?

- Of course, first you tap, tap, tap,

and then you brush, brush, brush.

- [giggling] Like this?

- [giggling] It's perfect!

- We still need to find something special

for Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Maybe we should look down by the river.

- Let's go!

[exciting music]

[Hare and Squirrel panting]

[Little Field Mouse squeaking]

Hello Little Field Mouse.

- Hello.

- We're looking for something very special

to show Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Something very special?

[gasping] I know!

Wow, it's in there!

[Little Field Mouse panting]

[Little Field Mouse squeaking]

[upbeat music]

[feet tapping]

- Look, a strange moss creature.

I've never seen one of those before!

[moss creature giggling]

- It's me!

Here, a blanket of the softest moss, saved from autumn.

- That is a very special blanket, Little Field Mouse.

but I'm looking for something Big Nutbrown Hare

has never seen before.

- I wish I could do something.

- There is something you could do.

You could show us your dance!

- Dance, what dance?

- The little dance you just did.

- Well, I'd love to show you!

First, you clap and jump,

[hands clapping]

[Hare and Squirrel grunting]

then twirl like an autumn leaf falling from a tree.

[feet tapping]

Now [giggling],

Point with your nose,

as you smell something special

on the breeze. [noses sniffing]

- Thank you Little Field Mouse, that was fun!

But I still haven't found something special

to show Big Nutbrown Hare.

[Little Field Mouse sniffing]

- I can smell something special on the breeze.

Follow me!

[feet tapping] [upbeat music]

[water swooshing]

[Otter babbling]

[group panting]

- Look, another dance!

[fingers scratching]

- Oh [giggling], hello.

What are you three up to?

- Dancing,

- And looking for something special

to show Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Something really special.

- Oh, oh, think I can help.

Wait right there!

[Otter grunting]

[water splashing]

Here.

- Thank you, Otter.

It is very special.

[water splashing]

[Otter babbling]

- But he's looking for something

his father has never seen before.

- How about you show us

your Shake and Groom dance anyway?

- Oh, I'd be delighted [giggling]!

First you [gabbling] shake, shake, shake the water off,

and then you groom, groom, groom!

[group giggling]

- [All Together] Shake, shake, shake,

and groom, groom, groom!

[Little Field Mouse giggling]

- Look, the sun's nearly set,

and I still haven't found something special

to show Big Nutbrown Hare.

- Little White Owl will be waking up right about now.

- Yes, maybe she can help us think of something?

[calming music]

- Once upon a time,

there was a long cold winter in the meadow.

All the plants were covered in a blanket of snow,

and many animals kept warm by sleeping.

- Just like me!

- Everything in the meadow was quiet and still--

- Just like here.

- But one day the winter sun said,

"Enough is enough!"

So she decided to shine more brightly.

- Just like today.

- Soon the meadow began to change;

the snow melted, the animals stirred,

and the birds flew home,

singing a happy spring song.

Even the plants were happy.

They poked their little heads above the snow

in search of the sun.

And then, in thanks, the flowers opened wide

and danced in the sunlight.

The leaves on the trees started to grow

And as the snow melted, the grass grew long

and swayed in the warm breeze.

All together it was like a dance,

a dance for the change

of seasons. - Oh.

And that is the end of the story.

- Already?

- Is it a true story?

- Well, it is true that it is my story.

- I've never seen flowers dancing.

- Neither have I,

but we all made up our own

change-of-seasons dance today!

- We did?

- I know, we could show BigNutbrown Hare our special dance!

- Hoo-hoo, what a good idea!

[crickets chirping]

- Thank you for showing me my first crocuses ever.

I want to show you something special too.

- Oh, what could it be?

- A special dance to the seasons

under the light of the moon!

- Aha.

- First comes summer.

Time to splash in a warm pool,

shake, shake, shake the water away, then groom, groom!

- Ho, ho, hooray!

- Next comes autumn,

so we clap and jump,

spin like a falling leaf,

then smell the breeze!

[feet tapping]

Winter's next, time to tap, tap, tap the ground,

then brush, brush the snow away.

[Little Gray Squirrel giggling]

Now Spring has sprung!

Watch me grow like a flower and spin, spin, spin!

- Hooray! - More, more, more!

- Now that has to be one of the most special things

I've ever seen!

- And then keep spin, spinning.

[group bustling]

- [Little Nutbrown Hare] I'm getting dizzy.

- [panting] Oh, now that is something

I've never done before either [giggling]!

- Can we do the dance

to the changing seasons again tomorrow?

Ah, it was very special.

- We loved dancing for you.

- Ah, but do you know

what is most special of all to me?

- Oh.

- You, my very special Little Nutbrown Hare.

- [giggling] Guess how much I love you.

- How much?

- More than all the little snowflakes dancing

in the air right now!

- [Big Nutbrown Hare] That is a lot!

[Big Nutbrown Hare giggling]

[upbeat music]

[dog barking]