I'd Rather Read It Myself Arthur

# Every day you walk down the street Everybody that you meet

# Has an original point of view

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# You gotta listen to your heart Listen to the beat

# Listen to the rhythm of the street

# Get together and make things better By working together

# It's a simple message And it comes from the heart

# Believe in yourself For that's the place to start

-# And I say, hey!

-Hey!

-What a wonderful kind of day

-# We can learn to work and play And get along with each other

-Hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day - hey! What a wonderful kind of day - HEY! #

-Hey, DW!

-Hey...

Oh...

My sister DW can drive me crazy.

But there's someone who drives her crazy too - the Tibble twins.

They always want to be better than DW.

-DW, we can yell louder than you.

-I don't care.

TWINS: Yah-de-yah-de-yah-de-yah...

They could ride a two-wheeler first.

And they could tell time before DW...they said.

-What time is it?

-Eleventy twelve. He's right.

-Some day I'll do something you can't.

-BOTH: No, you won't!

-Yes, I will.

-No, you won't. SHE GROWLS

Agh!

-THUD

-What was that?

We caught a tiger! We caught a tiger!

-Oh, dear!

-Oh, rats! That's not even a tiger!

I am so sorry, sir. ..Did you boys ask permission to dig this hole?

It's not a hole. It's a Burma-ese tiger trap.

-And he broke it!

-Can I keep the peanut-butter cup?

DW, the twins are coming for an hour while Mrs Tibble goes to buy sod.

You lock up the china. I'll get a ball and keep them out in the yard.

THUNDER

I'm going to be trapped inside with the Tibble twins for a whole hour?!

I can run faster than you, DW.

I can get dizzier than you, DW.

I have an idea - let's sit quietly and colour.

Quietly!

This...

is my favourite colouring book.

-You've gotta help with the Tibbles!

-I've 207,000 maths problems to do.

-But when YOU baby-sat them, they were quiet.

-Yeah.

I told them a story.

We can bounce higher than you.

Sit down and I'll tell you a story.

-The only real stories are in books and you can't read.

-I can too read!

You cannot read! Cos we can't, and if we can't...

-YOU sure can't.

-I learned before you.

I've been reading for a long time.

Since when?!

Since...last Thursday. I already readed all these books.

No way! No way! No way! No way!

So what does that say?

It says...

-It says "television".

-Is that right? I dunno. Sounds right.

OK, read us this book. It's got lots of pictures,

-so we'll know if you read it right.

-No, that's boring.

Let me find a good one. ..This one!

-That's all words.

-I'll read 'em all to you. Sit!

These are the adventures of a smart, great, perfect girl named...

BW.

That's close. If it was DW, I'd think you were making this up.

Quiet. I'm reading.

BW was a great kid,

who was a princess, a genius and a cool person.

But she was too polite to brag.

And she had her own pony...

..who lived in her room, and her parents said that was OK.

It was a perfect life, except for one thing -

a big, old, nasty thing -

and that thing was...her big brother!

He wasn't just a big brother, like that's not bad enough,

he was a big brother mega-transformaliser.

And if that wasn't bad enough,

he had an awful partner, Bustrantor.

# Bustrantor! Bustrantor! Bustra-a-antor!

# Bustrantor, the hungry robot

# He just wants to eat Bustrantor, the hungry robot

# Likes veggies more than meat. #

BURPS

Their most recent rotten crime -

they stole the world's most valuable snowball.

They won't get away with this!

BW to Walter, have you located their hideout?

Locked on, BW. Sending you in three, two, one...transport.

I'll take 'em by surprise.

Oh, no, you won't. Ah-ha!

Oh!

That balance beam, my only chance.

Nobody's that good on a balance beam.

She'll never get away. She can't even ride a two-wheeler.

Oh, no?

Hey!

Not only can she ride a two-wheeler, she can ride a no-wheeler.

They chased and chased, but couldn't catch her.

Then they chased her over the lake everybody said had no octopuses.

But there were over 7,000 in it!

Because she was brave and didn't panic, the amazing BW escaped.

But the bad guys weren't so clever.

That night, BW went to a restaurant with her parents.

Only BW was smart enough not to eat the spinach

that turned everyone else into spinach heads.

Mom, Dad, don't eat the...

Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh!

The only thing that cures spinach heads is the Power Ring of Power!

BW knew that the ring was being used at her Aunt Lucy's wedding.

WEDDING MARCH PLAYS

Oh! CONGREGATION GASPS

The Power Ring fell into the organ.

BW reached for it,

grabbing it just before it fell to the centre of the Earth.

ALL: Duh... Duh... Duh... Duh... Duh... Duh...

But without the magic blankie, the ring was powerless.

My magic blankie is missing!

Duh.

BW called for Secret Agent Nadine,

an agent so secret no-one else had ever seen her.

Secret Agent Nadine located the blankie.

But finding it wasn't that easy in the super-confusing All-In-One-Mart.

-We're lost.

-We're not lost!

'They WERE lost, possibly for ever.'

Wait!

Look!

I knew I'd find it some day.

The snowball can show us the way out.

Look!

Inside Crazy Bus - my blankie!

Wait.

Why? I've got my snowball, blankie, and Crazy Bus will take us home.

What could be wrong with...?

'BW had been tricked by her rotten brother.

'No-one could save her now.'

I knew she'd fall for the old phoney baloney snowball trick.

Grr.

BW's faithful eagle Spanky flew to the rescue like a streak of bird.

CRYING

The brave and bold bird defeated the villain, but...

he sacrificed himself to save her.

His heart was too big.

BW's good friend the President had a big funeral for the brave bird.

Spanky was the bravest...boldest... best bird.

Spanky was so brave! The best bird. DOORBELLS RINGS

-Tommy, Timmy, your grandmother's here.

-Aw!

Rats!

DW, what did you do to them?

She read from the best book ever.

I'll open the door for Mrs Tibble.

She read to you?! DW?!

From one of YOUR books. Can we borrow it? She didn't finish.

Sure.

-Bye, DW.

-Wait, the book!

-Arthur said we could borrow it.

Grandma, you have to read this book to us tonight! It's great.

They'll find out you can't read.

So? It kept them quiet. And for one day I did something THEY couldn't.

That's where DW stopped reading.

"Leonardo da Vinci worked hard..."

What? Who's Lemon Yellow da Vintage?

-Read it right, Grandma. Agent BW was with the President.

-Huh?

This book's about Leonardo da Vinci.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?!

Yeah, it's a magic book. Every time you read it, it's a different story.

We'll never need another book as long as we live.

"Leonardo da Vinci worked hard to invent a flying machine."

- What till I read like DW. - Me too!

# And I say, hey!

# What a wonderful kind of day We can learn to work and play

# And get along with each other

# What a wonderful kind of day HEY! #