What Is Big? What's the Big Idea?

-Hello, Hugo.

-Who, me?

-What do you know?

-Let's see!

# I know there's a lot I don't know

# I like questions that lead to questions

# Ask away

# Let's see where we go

# OK

# What is work? What is play? Why do walls get in the way?

# Where is love? What's a friend? Will my questions never end?

# What is fear?

# Why do we laugh?

# Why do I hate to get wet but never in the bath?

# Why is this not that? Why is that not this?

# Who? Where? When? How?

# What's the big idea?

# Yes, what's the big idea? #

-Hello, Hugo.

-Hello, Hugo.

Hello, Lilly. Hello, Felix.

Wow, you're looking very big today, Hugo.

No, I think you're looking very small.

So what is big?

SCRATCHING

Elephants are big, Hugo.

Oh!

And statues, they're big too.

And trees.

And forests, too.

What a big forest!

And there's big cities and big countries.

And there's big planets.

And...and...and big ants!

Ants?

OK, maybe not ants.

So big is everything that is bigger than me?

-Yes.

-No.

-No?

I think some big things can't be seen.

Like...you could have a big appetite.

Mmm. Yum!

Or you could have a big problem.

HE GULPS

Hey!

Those were my cupcakes!

Or you could have a big sulk.

Or you could have a big bad feeling

because you've just done a big bad thing.

Then you'd have to do something big to make up for it.

Like a big surprise.

BOTH: Surprise!

Big yum!

Big can be things you can feel.

Like being hugely happy.

HE INHALES

ELEPHANT EXHALES

Big can be lots and lots of different things.

But what makes them all big?

Yippee!

HE HICCUPS

I've got a big tummy ache.

ELEPHANT GROANS

But his tummy ache is bigger.

That little ant is very little.

But that tiny ant makes him look big.

You're huge!

One looks big because it's next to the other.

Oh, it's the big elephant again.

And elephants are always big.

Ah! But what if there were two elephants?

Is one of these elephants small?

What do you think?

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