Branching Out

## **Plot:**

A fallen tree branch presents a problem for Rabbit.

## **Transcript:**

**Mouse:** Have you ever tried to sleep somewhere other than your own comfy bed?

Sometimes it's not easy.

That's what my friend, Rabbit found out the night we all invited him to share our sleeping spots.

It all started on a windy evening just before bedtime.

**Rabbit:** Leaping lettuce!

It's really blowing, and it's getting late.

I gotta get home to...

Uh-oh!

Oh, Cabbage!

Right in front of my doorway!

I can't get into my sleeping hole with this tree here.

Hmm... thumpeka!

I'll just move it.

**Mouse:** Hello, Rabbit!

Oh, my windy whiskers!

Oh!

Why's there a tree in front of your doorway?

**Rabbit:** The wind blew it over.

I tried to move it myself, but...

**Mouse:** Well, of course, you couldn't move it by yourself.

That's a gimongous tree.

But with the two of us...

One, two, three... push!

Phew!

This tree won't budge a bit.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** What are you doing?

**Rabbit:** We need to move this tree so I can get into my sleeping hole, but it's too big.

**Pearl:** Did you try asking it?

**Coral:** Politely, of course.

**Amber:** Hello, tree, you're blocking Rabbit's door.

**Jade:** Could you please move?

**Pearl:** It's not moving.

**Jade:** Let's try...

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Tickle time!

Tickle, tickle! Tickle!

**Hazel:** Why are you tickling a tree?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** To make it stand back up, of course.

**Hazel:** You can't make a tree stand up by tickling it.

Besides, you don't have to move the whole tree; it's only the branch that's blocking the door.

**Rabbit:** So... what can we do?

**Hazel:** Simple. Chew!

**Jade:** We don't have teeth.

**Amber:** We can't chew.

**Pearl:** But we can peck.

**Coral:** Let's go!

**Hazel:** Pinching pine cones!

That didn't help at all!

The branch is too big and now it's getting dark.

**Rabbit:** I can't sleep outside.

**Mouse:** So now we have a whole new problem.

Where is Rabbit going to sleep tonight?

**Rabbit:** Time for a hop think.

**Mouse:** What if you sleep on the tree?

**Rabbit:** Rabbits don't sleep on trees.

**Jade:** Can you sleep in a bush?

**Pearl:** Or on a rock?

**Rabbit:** That wouldn't be comfy.

I need a sleeping spot that's cozy.

**Hazel:** And warm.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** And dark. And dry.

**Hazel:** I know. You can stay with me.

**Mouse:** Or me.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Or us.

**Rabbit:** Leaping lettuce!

Who to pick?!

Let's see...

I pick... I pick... Mouse!

**Mouse:** I'd love to have you as my nesting guest.

Let's go!

Here we are!

Cozy, warm, dark and dry.

**Rabbit:** Um... it looks a bit small.

Are you sure the both of us will fit?

**Mouse:** Yes. There's lots of room.

See?

Nighty-night.

**Rabbit:** Hmmm... I don't think there's enough room for all of me, but I might be able to get some of me tucked in.

Uh, oh.

**Mouse:** Mossy, Mossy, Mossy, Mossy, Mossy, Mossy, Mossy, Mossy!

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

Aww...

There's just not enough room in here for both of us.

I'll go sleep with the Gibble Goose Girls.

Their nest is cozy and warm and dark and dry, but most of all... it's big.

**Amber:** Of course, you can spend the night in our nest!

**Jade:** Rabbit should curl up here and we'll sleep over there.

**Amber:** No. He'd be much more, comfy with his head over here.

**Pearl:** No, no. You should lie on your tummy and we'll sleep on your back.

**Coral:** I think you should lie on your back and we'll sleep on your tummy.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** That's it!

Now time for sleep!

**Amber:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, Amber.

**Coral:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, Coral.

**Jade:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, Jade.

**Pearl:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, Pearl.

**Jade:** Good night, Amber.

**Rabbit:** Huh?

**Amber:** Good night, Jade.

**Pearl:** Good night, Coral.

**Coral:** Good night, Pearl.

Good night, Jade.

**Jade:** Good night, Pearl.

Good night, Coral.

**Coral:** Good night, Jade.

Good night, Amber.

**Amber:** Good night, Coral.

Good night, Pearl.

**Pearl:** Good night, Amber.

**Jade:** Uh, sorry.

My fault.

Back to sleep.

Good night, Amber.

**Amber:** Good night, Jade.

**Pearl:** Good night, Coral.

**Coral:** Good night, Pearl.

Good night, Jade.

**Jade:** Good night, Pearl.

Good night, Coral.

**Coral:** Good night, Jade.

Good night, Amber.

**Amber:** Good night, Coral.

Good night, Pearl.

**Pearl:** Good night, Amber.

Oh! And good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, Pearl.

**Amber:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Coral:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Jade:** Good night, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Good night, everybody.

**Pearl:** Achoo!

Excuse me.

Back to sleep.

Good night, Jade.

**Jade:** Good night, Pearl.

**Rabbit:** I'm sorry.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Whoa! Oof!

**Rabbit:** It was very nice of you to let me spend the night in your nest, but... I just can't get any sleep with all these good-nights.

**Jade:** Yes. It does take quite a while.

**Pearl:** Maybe what you need is a one, good, night friend to spend the night with.

**Coral:** With a warm, cozy, dark, dry, big and quiet sleeping spot.

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Edwina!

**Rabbit:** That's it!

I'll sleep at Edwina's!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Goodbye, Rabbit.

**Rabbit:** Bye-bye.

**Edwina:** Yay! A sleepover!

**Rabbit:** There just wasn't enough room with mouse, and the Gibble Goose Girls say "good night" all night.

**Edwina:** You there, me here. Good night.

**Rabbit:** Oh... good night.

I've finally found the perfect place to sleep.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Ow! Whoa!

Oh... morning at last.

Ugh.

**Mouse:** Wilting whiskers!

You look very tired.

**Rabbit:** I didn't sleep at all last night.

It was very nice of everyone to share their sleeping spots.

But yours was a bit too small; I couldn't squeeze in no matter how hard I tried.

The Gibble Goose Girls wouldn't stop saying "good night", and Edwina snores.

**Mouse:** That was a busy night.

No wonder he's all tuckered out.

**Rabbit:** I wanna sleep in my own cozy, warm, dark, dry, safe, quiet sleeping hole.

But this big thing's in the way and I can't think of how to move it.

I'm so tired, I can't think of anything.

**Mouse:** It's a good thing you weren't inside your sleeping hole when the tree fell down.

How would you have gotten out?

**Rabbit:** Easy.

I would've just dug a new way out.

**Hazel:** Quaking acorns!

That's it!

**Rabbit:** What's it?

**Hazel:** Instead of trying to move the great big tree that's blocking the way into your sleeping hole, why don't you just dig a new way in?

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka!

That's it!

I'll dig a new way in!

**Hazel:** Yeah!

**Mouse:** And we can help!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** What are you doing?

**Mouse:** We're digging a new way in to Rabbit's sleeping hole!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Wow! Oh! Great idea!

**Edwina:** Yay! Digging!

**Mouse:** And since we're all digging, why don't we dig two new ways in; a front doorway and a back doorway.

**Hazel:** And let's make Rabbit's sleeping hole bigger!

**Edwina:** Yeah! Bigger! Bigger!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** So he can have friends over!

**Mouse:** We never did move the big branch that was blocking the doorway to Rabbit's sleeping hole.

But, working together, we dug two new doorways and even made his cozy, warm, dark, dry, safe and quiet sleeping hole bigger.

Good thing, too, because after all that digging... we were all ready for a nap.

**Rabbit:** Thank you for helping me dig and making room for all my friends.

**Mouse:** Even the one who snores.