I Am Collecting a Collection Charlie and Lola

Charlie!

Lola?

Charlie!

THEY GIGGLE

It's breakfast time!

-I have this little sister Lola...

-Breakfast time!

-Come on! Come on!

-She's small and...very funny.

I want to have my breakfast.

All I need to finish my collection is the Pterodactyl

and the Giganotosaurus.

Charlie, it's a new packet of cereal and I'm going to open it!

But it's my turn! It's my turn to open the Puffa Pops.

I know.

YES! It's a Pterodactyl! Hurrah!

What's so special about a ptero-thingy?

I really needed it for my dinosaur collection.

Now I only need one more, the Giganotosaurus,

-the biggest meat-eating dinosaur of them all.

-Oh, that's good.

Well, Lola, what do you think?

-He's funny.

-No, no...

I want a collection too!

Thank you. Well, collecting is fun and it's really easy to do, Lola.

All you have to do is to think of something you like

-and then you start collecting it.

-Collecting! Collecting!

-Collecting...

-What are you going to collect?

Hmm...

Ooh!

I'm going to collect water.

-Yes, lots and lots of water.

-The thing is, Lola,

glasses of water would make a very boring collection.

Oh.

I know! Biscuits.

Biscuits of all shapes and sizes!

You can't collect biscuits, Lola. They'll go all stale and hard.

No, they won't, Charlie, because I'll eat them all.

-Then it wouldn't be a collection.

-I didn't think of that.

I know! I'm going to collect hippos.

One, two, three,

eight, ten and two.

-You do mean plastic hippos, don't you?

-Oh, no, Charlie!

-Real hippos.

-You know you can't collect real hippos.

They'd never fit in the bath.

There must be something I can collect, Charlie.

The best collections are made up of small things

-that are easy to find.

-Ooh!

I know! I know!

The Brachiosaurus weighs as much as seven elephants...

Here it is, Charlie,

-my very own special collection.

-What have you got in there?

Isn't it lovely? It's a seashell.

It's very nice, Lola.

But there's only one of it. You need more than one thing for a collection!

I will have more than one thing when I collect some more one things.

But a collection is meant to be a collection of things that go together

-so why don't you collect lots of seashells?

-But this seashell

came from the beach at Granny and Grandpa's

and we're not going to go there for at least ages!

I know - what about stamps? Or postcards?

-Or strangely shaped stones?

-Or leaves, Charlie.

I want to collect leaves!

Then Dad took us to the park so Lola could collect leaves.

-Lola's trying to collect leaves.

-Oh.

-How's your dinosaur collection?

-I only need the Giganotosaurus now

and then I'll have the whole set!

My brother says the Giganotosaurus is the hardest one to get.

-It took him ages!

-I know...

Does she know it's only spring?

No, I don't think she knows the leaves won't fall off until...

Autumn?! The leaves don't fall until autumn?!

But that's ages away!

I want to do my collection now.

-Why don't you look around the house for things to collect?

-Yes!

-Ahem.

-Huh?

-Do you want to see my collection now, Charlie?

-OK.

A ruler...a seashell... and a hair bobble.

That's not really a collection.

A collection should really be all of the same kind of thing.

Hmm.

-Oh...!

-Let me help.

It's my turn to open the box.

Probably not a Giganotosaurus.

They're really hard to get...

Oh, look.

A scary dragon, Charlie!

It's the Giganotosaurus!

I've got it!

The last dinosaur for my collection!

It's mine, Charlie. It was my turn to open the cereal.

But... I need it to finish my collection, Lola.

You can get one next time.

There won't be a next time! The chance of getting two Giganotosaurus

is less than tiny, and probably not even that.

Please, Lola, please can I have the Giganotosaurus?

Please!

I'll swap you anything you like.

What about my sugar lump collection?

-No, Charlie.

-Marbles?

-Don't think so, Charlie.

-My badges...

-No.

-All three of them!

I really do like them, Charlie,

but I don't collect them,

but I did collect the ginamosaurus.

Oh! But yours isn't a proper collection.

A proper collection is to find all the same kind of things

and you have to know all about them, like I know all about dinosaurs!

Wheeee!

Do you know why a Brachiosaurus neck is so long?

-So it can eat leaves from the tallest trees.

-Oooh!

Lola, over there! A Stegosaurus.

Oh, it's changing colour, Charlie!

It does that to scare off bigger dinosaurs,

like Tyrannosaurus Rex

with its big teeth!

-SHE GIGGLES

-Charlie! Look at his hands.

Look at his tiny tiny weeny hands.

I think we'd better go now, Lola.

-It's a ptero-thingy.

-A Pterodactyl.

It's as big as an aeroplane

and can fly for squillions of miles.

Do we want to see the biggest, fiercest dinosaur of them all, Lola?

Yes!

-Well, you can't.

-Why not, Charlie?

Because you've got it. It's the Giganotosaurus,

the dinosaur in your collection.

You really want this, don't you?

-Yes, I really want it.

-Well, you can have it

but only if you guess what my collection is.

But all your things are completely different. Nothing goes together.

But they do all go together,

because I collected them for all the same reason.

OK, it's a collection of...

of all very different things.

-No.

-OK, a collection of... things no-one needs.

No, Charlie, because you need this.

But you're very, very close.

-Oh...

-Shall I tell you? Shall I?

-Go on then.

-It's a collection of things that people DO need

and that I can give to them

and they'll be very, very pleased.

-Huh?

-This seashell's for Mum,

to keep her jewellery in.

And this is a ruler for Marv, because he said he wanted to measure

how long Sizzles' tail has grown.

Thanks, Lola.

And this is Lotta's other hair bobble that she completely lost

and I found it when I was collecting.

Thank you, Lola.

And this, Charlie, is the dinosaur

-that you really need for your collection.

-I know.

-Here you are.

-Oh!

Thanks, Lola.

So you see, Charlie,

mine is a proper collection.

It's a collection of things that people really, really need.

THEY LAUGH

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