David Tennant - Small Mouse Big City CBeebies Bedtime Stories

Right, where can I go today?

North or south?

Oh, hello! I'm David, can you help me?

I'm trying to choose where to go today.

I love travelling so I look at my map to help me decide.

Somewhere close by or somewhere far away?

Somewhere busy or somewhere really quiet and peaceful?

I love busy places but the countryside is beautiful.

Where would you go?

There's a little mouse who goes travelling

in tonight's bedtime story. He goes on an adventure.

The story is by Simon Prescott and is called Small Mouse Big City.

Country Mouse was leaving his quiet little home.

He was going to the big city.

His heart raced as the countryside swept by in a blur of leafy green.

The city took his breath away.

There were so many people,

but no-one stopped to show him the way.

Country Mouse was on his own.

And the streets all looked the same.

Strange, dark and dangerous.

He needed a friend, fast.

And he showed up just in time.

Suddenly the city didn't feel so strange.

"You'll love it here!" said City Mouse, and he did.

The city was amazing.

The city was intoxicating.

The city was magnificent.

But when Country Mouse gazed across the rooftops

and saw the green hills of his home, he began to feel sad.

"I miss my countryside," he said,

and he told his friend all about it.

How beautiful it was, how peaceful.

He loved City Mouse and he loved the city, but it was time to go home.

Country Mouse lay out on the soft, green grass and smiled.

"It's good to be back," he said.

"There's just no place like home."

It was nice to meet City Mouse, wasn't it?

Shall we visit him again?

How did the story start? Oh, yes.

Country Mouse was leaving his quiet little home.

He was going to the big city.

His heart raced as the countryside swept by in a blur of leafy green.

The city took his breath away.

There were so many people.

But no-one stopped to show him the way.

Country Mouse was on his own.

And the streets all looked the same.

Strange, dark and dangerous.

He needed a friend, fast.

And he showed up just in time.

Suddenly the city didn't feel so strange.

"You'll love it here!" said City Mouse.

And he did.

The city was amazing.

The city was intoxicating.

The city was magnificent.

But when Country Mouse gazed across the rooftops

and saw the green hills of his home, he began to feel sad.

"I miss my countryside," he said,

and he told his friend all about it.

How beautiful it was, how peaceful.

He loved City Mouse and he loved the city.

But it was time to go home.

Country Mouse lay out on the soft, green grass and smiled.

"It's good to be back," he said,

"There's just no place like home."

And that story was called Small Mouse Big City.

Hmm, maybe I could go to the countryside tomorrow.

Or maybe I'd enjoy the city?

And I can go to the country next week. Oh, I don't know.

Well, while I decide, it's time for you to go to bed

and I'll see you soon for another story. Night-night.

Let's have another look at this map.

Where am I going to go?

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