0:00:01 > 0:00:02And in tonight's story, we're finding out about a little girl
0:00:08 > 0:00:13Ollie. Ollie. Great news! I've got the most wonderful story for you.
0:00:13 > 0:00:18Oh! I'm forgetting. You should never excite an elephant.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Hello. I'm Maureen.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23And in tonight's story, we're finding out about a little girl
0:00:23 > 0:00:28who goes to the zoo and ignores all sorts of rules, like that.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31It's called Never Tickle A Tiger.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36And it's written by Pamela Butchart, with pictures by Marc Boutavant.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41Izzy was forever shuffling and jiggling,
0:00:41 > 0:00:44squirming and twitching, wriggling and fiddling.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46MEOW
0:00:46 > 0:00:47She just couldn't help it.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50It happened at home.
0:00:50 > 0:00:55"Izzy, stop playing with your peas," said Dad.
0:00:55 > 0:01:01At school. "Izzy, stop painting your pigtails," said Miss Potterhurst
0:01:03 > 0:01:10At Grandma's. "Izzy, stop knotting my knitting," said Grandma.
0:01:10 > 0:01:11And as for parties, well.
0:01:13 > 0:01:19"Izzy! Stop jiggling the jelly!" cried everyone.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23No matter how hard she tried, Izzy just couldn't keep still.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28"It's no good," she sighed. "I'm just a jiggler, and that's that."
0:01:29 > 0:01:33So when, one day, Class 4B went on a trip to the zoo,
0:01:33 > 0:01:38it came as no surprise to anyone that Izzy was wriggling, jiggling,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41shuffling and fiddling, as soon as they walked through the zoo gates.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46"Erm, stop stroking the snakes!"
0:01:46 > 0:01:48called Miss Potterhurst.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50"Don't excite the elephants!"
0:01:51 > 0:01:54"Forget about bothering the bears!"
0:01:54 > 0:01:55IZZY GIGGLES
0:01:56 > 0:01:58BEAR SNORES
0:01:59 > 0:02:01"Don't mess with the monkeys!"
0:02:01 > 0:02:03MONKEYS CHATTER
0:02:03 > 0:02:06"Izzy, Izzy! Stop tapping the tortoises."
0:02:06 > 0:02:08IZZY TAPS TORTOISE
0:02:11 > 0:02:13"And oh! Stop poking the peacock!"
0:02:13 > 0:02:15PEACOCK CAWS
0:02:15 > 0:02:18"And never, EVER, tickle a tiger!"
0:02:20 > 0:02:24At lunchtime, Izzy sat shuffling her sandwiches.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29"It's so unfair," she said. "I'm never allowed to do anything.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31"And what's wrong with fidgeting, anyway?"
0:02:32 > 0:02:36Little did Izzy know that she was about to find out.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40Whilst all the other children finished their lunch,
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Izzy fidgeted her feet...
0:02:43 > 0:02:46..bounced across the bench, shimmied onto the floor,
0:02:46 > 0:02:50wriggled under a bush, skipped past the aviary
0:02:50 > 0:02:54and danced along a path all the way to the tiger enclosure.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58"I wonder!" thought Izzy.
0:02:58 > 0:03:02And with that, she reached out a feather
0:03:02 > 0:03:07and tick-tick-tick-tick-tickled the tiger.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10"RAAAAAA-AAAARGH!"
0:03:10 > 0:03:11roared the tiger.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16He threw his furry paws in the air, which broke a branch,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18which startled a snake,
0:03:18 > 0:03:19who bit a bear,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21who walloped a walrus,
0:03:21 > 0:03:24who splashed a sloth,
0:03:24 > 0:03:26who punched a penguin,
0:03:26 > 0:03:27who kicked a croc,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29who snapped at a skunk,
0:03:29 > 0:03:30who ponged a panda,
0:03:30 > 0:03:32who rammed a rhino,
0:03:32 > 0:03:34who hit the hippo,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37who wibbled and wobbled and SPLASH!
0:03:38 > 0:03:42The lion roared, the parrot squawked, the snakes hissed
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and the elephants trumpeted loudly.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Miss Potterhurst squealed, the children giggled
0:03:48 > 0:03:50and the zookeeper came running.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53It was pandemonium.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55And it was all Izzy's fault.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57But then...
0:03:57 > 0:03:59"STO-O-P!"
0:03:59 > 0:04:01shouted Izzy,
0:04:01 > 0:04:02at the top of her voice.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"Stop squealing, squawking, splashing and flapping.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10"Enough running, ramming and bumping.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14"No jiggling, wriggling, shuffling and squirming."
0:04:14 > 0:04:16And guess what...?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18It worked.
0:04:18 > 0:04:19The zookeeper stopped running.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Miss Potterhurst stopped squealing.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27The children stopped giggling.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29And all the animals went back to their homes.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32And as for Izzy...
0:04:33 > 0:04:37"You were right all along, Miss Potterhurst," she said.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39"I'll never, ever tickle a tiger again."
0:04:39 > 0:04:41"But...
0:04:41 > 0:04:43"what can be the harm of prodding a polar bear?"
0:04:43 > 0:04:45She thought.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I hope you enjoyed that story as much as I did.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54And I hope you did too! Hmm?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Oh, Tiger, did you brush your teeth?
0:04:59 > 0:05:02OK. Elephant, did you wash behind your ears? Ooh, yes.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Goodbye, we're all ready for bed!
0:05:05 > 0:05:08And I hope you are too! Sleep well.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Night-night. Night-night.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15SNORING