A Grandpa Made of Magic Grandpa In My Pocket

-BOTH:

-Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

TYRES SCREECH

Come down, Grandpa!

Ah!

Grandpa!

Welcome back to Sunnysands! And look who's here - Grandpa!

He's living with our Auntie Jules, Uncle CJ

and our grown-up cousins Jemima and Jason Mason.

The family are now living here - at the Mill on the Marsh,

which is a little hotel.

I'm Josh, and this is my sister Elsie,

and we've come to stay for the whole summer.

Race you up the stairs, Elsie!

-Careful, Josh. CJ:

-They're so excited.

-Whoa!

-Come on, Wulfy, come on.

-How you doing, you two?

We went for a walk with Wulfy, and also Mrs Ostrich.

Wow, is that a Captain Dumbletwit spaceship toy?

'Captain Dumbletwit is everyone's favourite cartoon!'

-Can you come to the beach and play with it, Jason?

-Yeah!

Sorry, I've got a football match. But Grandpa will play with you.

But Grandpa's all...old.

Yeah, he can't climb the stairs to our room or anything.

Uh, you might be surprised.

A day with Grandpa can be... well, magical.

BOTH: What?!

Yes, this was the day

we found out we had...

'Soon, we were showing Grandpa our toys.'

Oh, I love Mrs Ostrich, Elsie. And I can't wait to fly in that.

Don't be silly, Grandpa.

-Oh, I'm not being silly, am I, Jason?

-Not exactly.

-'Just then, Jemima arrived.'

-I don't know where to start!

'Jemima was doing a fashion course, and she had to make a prom dress.'

-Can you play with us, Jemima?

-Sorry, Elsie, busy.

Grandpa will play with you.

- Of course I can! What'll it be?

Captain Dumbletwit? I've got the costume.

-I'm going to get changed for football.

-Oh, Jemima, you can't

do cutting out in here. A very important hotel guest is arriving.

How about the kitchen table?

But downstairs in the kitchen,

Great Aunt Loretta was doing all her washing.

Oh, wish and a wash and a wish.

Lucky pants. In you go.

'There was no room for Jemima to do cutting out.'

Captain Dumbletwit to the rescue!

'Upstairs, Grandpa had dressed up.'

-I love Jason's car.

-Yes, well, that car can go very fast.

-How can it?

-It's not even radio-controlled.

-The thing is,

it doesn't need to be radio-controlled.

All it needs...is this.

-'And Grandpa showed us an old black cap.'

-It's an old black cap.

Yes, and it's about time you both knew all about it. You see...

it's a little bit magic.

-Magic?

-Yes. And when I put it on, it makes me a little bit magic too.

-Do you want to see?

-Yeah!

-Yes, of course!

Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

-Wow.

-Amazing.

Catch me if you can!

-I don't believe it.

-We've got a magic grandpa...a shrinking one.

There's no stopping me when I'm small.

'And we found out, when our grandpa shrinks,

'he can get up to all kinds of mischief.

'He can run so fast you can't catch him.'

'He can hide in teeny, tiny places.'

'And his magic can make things go - like this!'

'And this!'

'But right now, he had to hide, cos Auntie Jules was coming.'

-Grandpa gone for a little lie down, has he?

-Nope, he's in...

He's in the ship...

'Why didn't Jason want me to say where Grandpa was?'

Jason, you're too old for that now, you funny thing, you.

-He's not in there, he's in the vase.

-Yeah.

The thing is, Elsie, only you,

Josh and Jason know about my magic shrinking cap.

All the grown-ups think he's gone for a lie down when he's small.

You see, when I'm small, I can sort out loads of problems.

-Jason and I have had no end of adventures together.

-Yep.

But now I'm not around as much any more,

you two can help Grandpa, right?

-BOTH:

-Right!

-I've got to go now, good luck.

So, are you ready for this?

Elsie, Josh, are we a team?

Of course we are! 'We really wanted to be a team with Grandpa.

'Then we heard Great Aunt Loretta - singing.'

# I do love to see me washing flap about. #

'Just then, Great Aunt Loretta's pants

'were blown off the washing line.'

-Loretta!

-'Upstairs, I was learning how to pick Grandpa up.

'He was just about to take his cap off and unshrink, when we heard...

-Me lucky pants!

-'And they flew straight past the window.'

-Oh, no.

-It's Great Aunt Loretta's pants.

They've blown into the big tree in the meadow.

You'll get used to this kind of thing.

THEY LAUGH

Oh, Loretta, how are we going to get your pants down?

-I don't know!

-This is so embarrassing.

'The last thing Auntie Jules wanted was for an

'important guest to see Great Aunt Loretta's pants.

'But Grandpa had a plan.'

You two go outside and distract the visitor when they arrive.

I am going in here.

Captain Dumbletwit to the rescue!

'Captain Dumbletwit got into his spaceship, and the lights flashed.

'And it took off!'

'It flew around the room...

'and straight up the chimney!

'We had a job to do.

'Grandpa flew out of the chimney, and we ran into the meadow.'

'And just then, Uncle CJ arrived, in Queenie, his boat,

'with the very important visitor.'

-This is our very important visitor, a famous astronomer in fact.

-Olga.

Olga Orbit.

What's an astrobalala?

An astronomer is someone who studies the stars and the planets.

Oh, and what a magnificent place for stargazing. So much sky!

'Olga Orbit was just about to see the pants in the tree

'when Josh went...'

Look over there!

More sky! Sky everywhere!

I'll take your case in for you, Olga.

Do come on in when you've had enough of the...sky.

You can never have enough of the sky! Take a look.

Stars, planets, galaxies, meteors, universes...outer space.

I do love outer space.

-'At that moment, she saw something.'

-Jickety Jupiter, it can't be!

It is. Oh, galloping galaxies, it's a spaceship!

SHE GASPS

It's Captain Dumbletwit's spaceship. Oh, this is magical!

'Grandpa flew over the marsh.'

I had no idea Captain Dumbletwit was real,

I thought he was just a cartoon.

Rollicking rockets, you learn something new

every day about the universe!

We must go and tell your uncle.

Captain Dumbletwit to the rescue!

'Just then, Grandpa came back.

'He whisked the pants off the tree and came to talk to us.

'I took the pants off the spaceship.'

Call up the chimney when it's safe for me to land. I'll be on the roof.

(OK.) 'And off he flew!'

'But Wulfy jumped up and grabbed the pants, and ran inside.'

Oh, Wulfy, how marvellous. They must have blown down again. Loretta?

'Upstairs, Olga Orbit was going on about the spaceship.'

-A spaceship?!

-Not just any spaceship - Captain Dumbletwit's.

It's real. I saw it with my very own eyes.

You might need to get them tested if you ask me.

Oh, Loretta, um, downstairs, something for you, in the kitchen.

- Let me show you to your room, Olga. - Oh, me lucky pants!

Don't know what all the fuss is about Olga Orbit seeing me pants.

She's clearly bonkers.

'It was time for us to call for Grandpa.'

Now, Grandpa.

'And down he flew.

'And landed on the floor.'

Josh, pick up the spaceship, so Olga doesn't see it.

-Unshrink, Grandpa.

-How do I do that?

-Cap off.

OK.

Oh, well done, you two! Olga didn't see the pants.

But she saw the spaceship, and she thought it was real.

It made her day, we're a team already.

Teamwork, I say. ALL: Teamwork!

'Just then, Olga Orbit came back.'

Staggering starbursts, I don't believe it! Captain Dumbletwit?

The real, living and breathing Captain Dumbletwit?

-Oh, there you are, Grandpa.

-I am so delighted to meet you, Captain!

Up until today I thought you were just a cartoon.

Oh, this really is the best hotel in the universe!

'But then, this happened.'

Come back here with me pants, you bad dog!

- Well, almost the best hotel in the universe.

'That night at bedtime,

'I couldn't believe what an amazing day we'd had.

'Neither could Elsie.'

-I love it here, Josh.

-Me too. And we have a magic grandpa!

Yup.

-Does anyone else have a magic grandpa?

-I don't think so.