The Brillioso Beach Treat Grandpa In My Pocket

BOTH: Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

Come down, Grandpa.

Ha-ha!

Grandpa!

'We love Sunnysands because it's sunny and it's sandy

'and it's right by the sea.

'And today, there was something very exciting going on at the beach.

'A very exciting something, organised by Mr Whoops

'and Mr Mentor the Inventor.'

What's all this, then?

-Go on, give us a clue.

-Well, it's a beach treat, for the children.

Sounds great! What sort of beach treat?

All we can say is, it will be brillioso! Ha-ha-ha!

-I must go and tell Josh and Elsie.

-I'm so excited.

-So am I!

Yes, this was the day of The Brillioso Beach Treat!

'Uncle CJ came straight back and told us all about it.'

A beach treat for the children? I wonder what that could be.

No idea, all I know is it's going to be brillioso!

Mr Mentor and Mr Whoops together? An inventor and someone

who is always having little accidents? Perhaps I should help.

No, Grandpa. You'd probably just get in the way.

Why don't you just stay here and have a little lie down?

Yes, yes. Maybe I will.

'We both knew what Grandpa was thinking.'

I want to make sure this beach treat is a success.

They are bound to need some help.

Especially from someone small.

BOTH: Not the shrinking cap, Grandpa!

Catch me if you can!

'You know what happens when Grandpa shrinks.

'He runs and jumps about and I just can't catch him!'

'He can get into things and he can get under things.'

'But most amazing of all is that his magic can make things go.

'Like Jason's toy car!

'He even climbs on my Mrs Ostrich and makes her fly.

'Which is odd, because ostriches can't fly, actually.'

'But today, he took the helicopter.'

See you later.

'Back at the beach, Mr Mentor and Mr Whoops had set up a

'Punch and Judy theatre.'

Oh, bravo, Mr Mentor.

Whoops!

Oh, Mr Whoops, you and your little accidents.

'While Mr Mentor was helping Mr Whoops, Grandpa flew onto

'the beach and landed out of sight.'

You'll have to explain.

I've absolumply no idea what a Punch and Judy puppet show is.

Aa-ha!

Aaaah, the treat's a Punch and Judy show. Excellent.

-Well, this is Mr Punch. And this is Judy.

-Oh, Judy. Brillioso!

And they have a friend called Joey the Clown.

-And there's Toby the Dog next door.

-Fabudiculous!

And there's a policeman. And a crocodile.

-Oh, a crocodile, too.

-And there's always sausages!

-Ah!

-'The sausages nearly hit Grandpa.'

-Where have they gone?

-I don't know.

-Oh, I've lost my twirly whirly badge.

-Never mind that now.

We've got to find the sausages!

'Grandpa could see that they were never going to find the sausages,

'so he decided to help them.'

-'Then, Mr Whoops turned around! He was about to see Grandpa!'

-Oh, no!

-'He had to hide in the basket of puppets.'

-Over there!

-You missed them, Mr Whoops.

-Oh!

Now we've got to get on with practising the puppet show.

-Did you say we? I thought I was just putting up the theatre booth.

-Oh, no.

We have to make the puppets walk and talk, see?

Like this, "That's the way to do it!"

That's what Mr Punch always says.

Oh, I couldn't do that. I'm too shy.

No. It's impossibubble.

I can't do all the puppets at the same time!

-I'll have to have help!

-'Mr Mentor had a wonderbubble idea!'

I've suddenly had a wonderbubble idea!

-I'll invent a way of making a puppet walk and talk all by itself!

-Oh!

It'd be very wonderbubble if you could.

But you'll need to hurry up

because the children will be here soon for the show!

It'll be easy peasyoso. I can invent it in no time at all.

No time at all!

'But Grandpa wasn't so sure.'

'Back home, we were worried about Grandpa.'

-No, you ask!

-No, you ask!

-No, you ask!

Uncle CJ, please can we go to the beach early?

In case Mr Mentor and Mr Whoops need any help.

BOTH: Pleeeeease! Please. Please. Please.

-Yes! Good idea!

-Yes!

-We'll go in Queenie!

'Mr Mentor was trying to work out how to invent a puppet that would

-'walk and talk by itself.

-Mr Whoops was warming up.

'And Grandpa was watching them.'

"That's the way to..." Oh, no. Too silly.

"That's the way to..." Oh, no. Too grumpy. "That's the way to..." Oh!

Whoops! Oh, that's NOT the way to do it!

I've dropped my glasses in the box of puppets.

How could I be so clumsy?

'Mr Whoops put his hand in the box of puppets

'and felt around and then this happened.'

Are you Judy or Joey the Clown? Oh, dear! I really do need my glasses.

I've got it! I've thought of a way of making a puppet

walk and talk all by itself!

-Wonderbubble!

-Oh! Wonderbubble, indeed!

-'They danced around, very excited.

-And then, this happened!'

-Oh!

-Oh!

Oh, dear.

I've lost my swirly spiral stick!

-And where's my notebook?

-Well, don't look at me!

-Well, where is it? It...

'We turned up just in time.'

What's up? Are you OK?

'We were looking around for Grandpa and then we saw him!'

You're doing a Punch and Judy show!

Well, I'm trying to. But it's all gone wrong.

-Mr Mentor was supposed to be helping me, but...

-I have been helping!

I have invented a way of making a puppet walk and talk by itself.

Wow, that's amazing. How does it work?

Well, I've forgotten.

-Forgotten?! You can't have forgotten!

-Well, I have.

-And it's all your fault. You and your little accidents.

-It's not my fault!

'We wanted to talk to Grandpa, so we had to get everyone out of the way.'

Please don't argue! Be friends.

BOTH: Sorry.

Why don't you go and have an ice cream sundae together?

That's a fabadiculous idea.

An ice cream sundae might help me remember my inventions.

An ice cream sundae might stop me having little accidents.

We can but hope!

'So, off they went to Miss Smiley's cafe.'

I'll fix the puppet theatre.

It probably just needs banging back together.

-There's a hammer in the beach hut.

-Good thinking, Josh.

There's nothing else for it,

the three of us are going to have to perform this puppet show ourselves.

-Really? You think we can do it?

-Easy peasyoso.

Found the hammer.

'So, Uncle CJ fixed the puppet theatre.'

I'll climb into the Mr Punch puppet and do all his walking and talking.

-"That's the way to do it!"

-And no-one will know it's you.

'Just then, we heard our friends arriving.'

I can't wait!

-Hello, everyone. Are you here for the Brillioso Beach Treat?

-Yeah!

Sit down there.

-We're nearly ready for you.

-'We took the puppets out of the basket.

'Grandpa jumped out and got inside Mr Punch.'

What are we going to do? Mr Mentor and Mr Whoops aren't here.

-We're going to do the puppet show instead.

-What, just the two of you?

'It was time for the Brillioso Beach Treat to begin.'

"Hello, boys and girls. I'm Mr Punch."

-"I'm Judy."

-"And I'm Toby the Dog."

-"Today, I'm going to cook some sausages for Toby."

-"No!

"I want the sausages! Give them to me!"

-'Then, Mr Whoops and Mr Mentor came back.'

-What's going on?!

Who's doing the puppet show?

-We are!

-"Oh, lovely sausages.

"I'm going to fry them up for my breakfast. That's the way to do it!"

So, if you're both here, who's puppeteering Mr Punch?

Yes, who?

'This was a disaster! Everyone was going to know about Grandpa.'

-'Then Mr Mentor said...'

-It's my wonderbubble invention.

I've invented a walking, talking puppet without even realising it.

Mr Mentor! You're the most remarkabubble inventor

in the universe!

'Grandpa had saved the day!

'As soon as the Punch and Judy show was over,

'Grandpa flew back to the Mill on the Marsh.

'And landed in the meadow.

'He took off his shrinking cap and came back to his normal size.'

'And just in time! Because we'd come back in Queenie.'

'We took off our life jackets and rushed over to talk to Grandpa.'

-You made it back, Grandpa.

-Oh, yes.

-And didn't we do well, the three of us?

-It was totally teamwork!

-Teamwork!

-Ah, you're up and about, Grandpa.

Guess what the Brillioso Beach Treat was? A Punch and Judy show.

-And Josh and Elsie performed it all by themselves.

-All by themselves?

With the talking, walking Mr Punch.

Mr Mentor invented him and then Mr Whoops gave him to us

to say thank you for helping. Show Grandpa, Elsie.

Oh, we can have a game with him later. "That's the way to do it!"

Not bad, Grandpa. Not bad. Puppet's better.

Teamwork!