The Biggest Story Big and Small

# It doesn't matter if you're tiny or tall

# It doesn't matter if you're big or small

# If you want to have fun it doesn't matter at all

-# You've got it, Big!

-Why, thank you, Small! #

BOTH: # Skipping, flipping climbing up a rope

# Hiding, riding sliding down a slope

# Skating on an ice cube swinging on a star

-# It makes no difference what size you are!

-Nice!

# If you want to have fun it doesn't matter at all

-# Cos here we are We're Big and Small!

-Yeah! #

And the rat said, "Oh, Mr Cat!"

But the very next day, the cat came back with a huge load of bananas.

The end. Oh, the cat came back, Small!

Wasn't that a nice surprise!

-No!

-I thought you liked this story.

I do, I love it.

Since I've read it, like, 401 times, it's not that surprising anymore.

-That's true.

-I mean, it was totally and completely surprising

the first 400 times.

I never thought that cat would come back.

But now, I kind of know it's going to happen.

-Well, do you want to choose another book?

-Yes!

Ok, let me see, let me see.

Superworm Saves The Day, Superworm Does The Dishes...

Big, I don't believe it!

I think we've read all of these, like, 400 times.

Well, I guess we're out of stories.

You mean that I'll never hear

a new story again? Ever, never?

Not until we get more books.

But that could take days, weeks, months, years.

More years!

-Oh! Not necessarily!

-Keep talking.

How about... Small, how about I write you a story?

Can you do that?

I know you can fly to the moon

and catch the sun but can you write a book?

-I can try! It might actually be fun!

-Oh!

Ok, it can be about cowboys in space who play tennis on Wednesdays.

I need to write it by myself, Small. That way, it will be a surprise.

Oh, Big, you think of everything. Now go!

-Write, write like the wind.

-You want me to do it now?

But Small, it's almost lunchtime.

You write the story and I'll go outside and blow a million bubbles.

You know what? I've always wanted to write a story.

Just imagine, all the wonderful things I could put in it.

# My imagination's running wild

# My mind's about to burst

# So many stories to be told but which tale to tell first

# I'm so full of great ideas I better get my pen

# And write them down one by one

# Read them out and when Small hears my tales,

# He'll be thrilled He'll yell, he'll shout, he'll roar

# I'll sit down with that pen again and then I'll write some more

# My imagination's running wild

# My mind's about to burst

# So many stories to be told but which tale to tell first

# My imagination's running wild my mind's about to burst

# So many stories to be told, which tale to tell first

# I'll sit down with that pen again

# And then I'll write some more and when Small hears my tales

# He'll yell, he'll shout, he'll roar. #

Right then, once upon a time...

This story is going to be great already.

Small is going to love this. There was...no!

There used to be...erm...no!

Oh! There may have been...no!

That's not right.

There are so many words I could use but I'm not sure which I should use!

Ye-hey! One gazillion, million bubbles. Wo-hoo!

-Ah! Is that the story?

-Yes.

-It's pretty good so far.

-Wow-osaurus!

-I'm sure it's the best story ever.

-Mm.

Is it all about cowboys and space?

OK, so I'm guessing you wrote,

-"Once upon a time, there was a space cowboy."

-Erm, OK.

And he ran into a jungle and there he found...

Space cowboy, jungle. Mm.

Erm, there he found a beautiful princess

-named Gesundheit.

-Mm.

Who is actually the best cowboy of all. Only she had to kiss a frog.

-Yep, oh!

-And that's disgusting, so forget that.

Mm. Hm. OK, that's a beautiful princess, Gesundheit,

best cowboy, kiss a frog, that's not so disgusting.

-Wow!

-Instead, Gesundheit and space cowboy built a boat out of books.

-Oh-oh-oh! OK, OK.

-They became pirates. Ha, ha, ha! Ahoy, mateys!

So, is that what happens, Big? Is it? Is it?

-Small, don't you want this to be a surprise?

-Oh, yeah, I do.

-100 times, yes.

-OK, then don't ask me any questions.

OK, I've got it. No questions. Nothing. None.

Thank you.

HE SIGHS

Ho! Ho! Oh, yeah!

Yeah! That's good. Ho, ho! Yeah, great!

You know what, Big? I dunno.

I didn't say the cowboy runs you to the JANGLE,

I said he went into the JUNGLE.

You forgot the part about the stuff that I said.

Is there not something else you could be doing now?

I did promise Ruby that I'd show her

how to dance like a chicken on roller-skates.

-Will the story be finished when I get back?

-Hopefully.

-I can't promise anything, though.

-Bye!

Right! Where was I? Oh, yes.

Once upon a time, there was a space cowboy

who ran into the jungle. Hmmm...

Should the pirates go to Banana Island or bury some treasure?

Too many choices.

I am never going to get this finished.

OK, Big, don't ever teach a mouse

how to dance like a chicken on rollerskates.

Brrr!

Hey, is that the story? Great. Lay it on me.

Well, it's not quite ready yet.

-I don't mind. Let me hear it.

-I'm stuck.

-What do you mean?

You haven't finished yet?

I thought you'd have written the surprise ending by now

when the pirates go to the moon

and discover the biggest mountain ever

and play hopscotch with a goose. The end.

-Just give me a few more minutes.

-Fine. Fine.

-I'll go and jump on the bed, but then it's story time.

-OK.

Right. Then the pirates went to the moon and discovered a mountain

and after that they played hopscotch with a goose.

The end. I did it.

-OK. Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Here we go.

"Once upon a time there was a cowboy who ran into the jungle."

Wow, Big. What a start.

-Yeah! "There he found..."

-"A beautiful princess named..."

BOTH: "Gesundheit, who was actually the best cowboy of all,

-"only she had to kiss a frog and that's disgusting."

-Eugh! No kidding!

"So Gesundheit and Space Cowboy

"built a boat out of books and became pirates."

Ha-ha! Ahoy, mateys! This is the best book ever.

-I hope the next part is about the moon.

-Let's see.

BOTH: "Then the pirates went to the moon

"and discovered the biggest mountain ever

"and played hopscotch with a goose. The end."

That was fantastic.

-I loved it.

-I'm glad, Small, because you wrote it.

Wait. I didn't write it. You wrote it.

The paper, remember? The thing with the dingy-ding and the buttons

and how you kept telling me to go away.

I remember. I did the writing, but the ideas were all yours.

Hey! They WERE mine! Does that mean I'm a great story maker-upper?

It does. One of the best, I imagine.

I AM the best! I'm the best! I'm the best!

Ha-ha. But do you know what?

You, Big, are a great story write-it-downer.

-I couldn't have done it without you.

-That's true

-I suppose we are good at different things.

-Exactly.

-Good night, Big.

-OK.

Ah! Hmm.

-Big?

-Yes, Small?

Can we read it again?

Of course! Come on up.

THEY LAUGH

-OK. All right.

-Woo-hoo!

-All right. Ready?

-Yep.

-"Once upon a time there was a Space Cowboy who ran into a jungle."

-Oh!

-I didn't see that coming!

-Ha-ha!

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