An Evening of Delights Big and Small

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# 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! #

Hey, is my mountain ready?

Mm-hm. Your mountain is ready.

That's great because I'm going to put it next to the worm.

-Small. Ruby.

-Oh, hi.

-Hi, Big.

-I have something to say.

-Say away.

Thank you. I...

PATTING

A-hem!

OK, I would like to invite you to my first ever

afternoon of musical delights concert.

A what-ert?

Don't you know what a concert is?

-Tell him, Big.

-Thanks.

Well, a concert is sort of a music party, Small.

-Oh!

-B...b...but not exactly a party.

At a concert I would come out on a stage or something like a stage

and greet the audience.

"Hello, audience." That's me greeting the audience.

-And then I'd sit down and play the piano.

-And...?

Erm...well...and after I finish playing,

the audience would clap and I'd bow like this. "Thank you."

-Is there ice cream?

-No.

-Cake?

-No.

-Dancing monkeys?

-No. Definitely no.

Well, then, thanks but no thanks.

-Small!

-What?

-You're being rude.

Erm, I would love to come

to your concert.

Ah, terrific, Ruby! OK, these are your tickets, Ruby.

-You'll need to present these at the door.

-OK.

Ribbit!

I can't believe it.

I can't believe I had to dress up and there's no ice cream.

-Or monkeys.

-Shh! And stop wiggling.

Don't you know the first thing about proper concert behaviour?

Of course I do! I know all about it.

At a concert you have to sit still and not talk

and when it's over you clap and then you leave.

A-hem.

Erm...hello...and welcome to my concert. Thank you for coming.

Yay, Big! Ha-ha-ha!

And now I will play the piano.

-Mmm!

-Erm...?

YAWN

BIG PLAYS PIANO

Ribbit!

-SNORING

-Monkeys took my ice cream!

I am fed up.

Here, eat a raisin.

Hey!

BURP

-Did you see that? He caught it.

-Shh!

-He-he.

Hup!

He did it again. Ha-ha-ha-ha!

Ha!

FROG PRESSES WRONG KEYS

Ooooh...!

Hmm...!

Oops!

Erm...well...I guess that's it.

Thank you and come again...

I suppose.

Oh, no.

I cannot believe you did that!

-You wrecked Big's concert!

-But I didn't mean to.

-Well, you had better find a way to make it up to him!

-I know, I know.

But how?

Pretty.

For you, Big.

Small's scrapbook?

-Also for you.

-OK. Thank you.

Small's favourite banana.

And these also for you.

What are you doing, Small?

Erm, I'm giving you all of my favourite things

because I'm so sad!

I'm so terribly sorry for throwing raisins, Big.

Throwing raisins and making the frogs wreck your concert.

SMALL SOBS

Well, apology accepted, I suppose.

Phew! Phew-a-rama!

-Does that mean I get to keep all my favourite things?

-OK.

Woo-hoo!

Stop!

That is not an apology, Small.

What? I said I was sorry.

Small, giving things and then taking them back is not being sorry!

But I didn't take them back.

Big said I can keep my favourite things.

You asked for them back

and that's not an apology.

Well, what is it, then?

An apology is when you do something

that really makes the other person feel better.

An apology is...

# When you are sad because you've hurt your friend

# You'd do anything just to make the hurt end

# There's a word you can use that will help with the healing

# Be sure when you say it you say it with feeling

# I'm sorry, so sorry Let's make a new start

# Believe me, this sorry comes straight from my heart

# When you say sorry just make sure that it's true

# A kind word can turn your best friend back to you

# With one little word you can make it OK

# So share it and show it and be kind and say

# That I'm sorry, so sorry Let's make a new start

# Believe me, this sorry comes straight from my heart

# I'm sorry, so sorry Let's make a new start

-# Believe me, this sorry comes straight from my heart.

-#

Erm...yeah, well, you know, erm,

the best apology would be to give Big his concert back

but I can't do that.

Or can I?

OK, almost. Almost.

Don't step in the hole, OK? All right, all right.

Watch out for the bee. Almost here. Almost there.

And...there!

What's going on, Small?

Woooo-hoooooo!

It's your new concert, Big.

-Aah!

-Only now it's called the evening of musical delights concert.

And you have a humungous audience - millions! He-he.

Or thousands(!)

Those chairs may look empty, Big, but there's a bug on every one.

And the fish in the pond are listening too.

And the fireflies, they're listening too.

The birds in the trees are listening.

And the stars are listening. And the moon.

And the air is listening.

So don't mess up.

Well...erm, this is an honour, everyone.

Erm, I'm delighted to be playing for you all.

Guess what.

After the concert there's ice cream and cake and monkeys!

And now...we begin.

BIG PLAYS PIANO

FROG BURPS

Ribbit!

FROG BURPS

Nice apology, Small.

-Shh! It's a concert.

-Ha-ha-ha!

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