Hazel's Voice

## **Plot:**

Hazel has something really important to tell her friends, but she has a sore throat and can't talk.

## **Transcript:**

**Mouse:** Oh, hi!

Have you ever had a sore throat that was so bad, when you tried to talk, not a word came out?

You could hardly make a sound, even one like...

That was the problem our friend Hazel had, just this morning.

**Rabbit:** There's Hazel.

**Mouse:** I wonder why she's just sitting there?

She's usually so busy.

Is everything alright, Hazel?

**Rabbit:** You don't want us to talk?

Oh! You aren't talking.

Because you've got nuts in your mouth and you don't wanna talk with your mouth full?

**Mouse:** Hmm...

You forgot what you were gonna say?

You're hungry?

You have a bee in your throat!

You're oh...

Oh! I've run out of guesses.

**Rabbit:** Why don't you just tell us why you can't talk?

**Mouse:** Oh... I see!

You have a sore throat!

**Rabbit:** Why didn't you say so?

Oh, right.

You can't say so.

Pretty smart of me to figure that out!

**Mouse:** Even though you can't talk, you still want to tell us something?

**Rabbit:** Hmm...

Something important?

**Mouse:** Oh!

This could be a problem.

How is Hazel going to tell us the important thing she wants to tell us if she can't use her voice?

**Rabbit:** Oh! She's gonna show us what she wants to tell us!

Me?

You want me to find something?

Edwina!

You want me to find Edwina!

Oops!

There's more!

I should go find Edwina and... put this on her nose?

**Mouse:** Oh! Your nose is all stuffed up and you can't smell those flowers, so you can't find any!

**Rabbit:** Oh! Oh!

You want me to go find Edwina and ask her to sniff out some chamomile flowers for you!

**Mouse:** My turn!

Um...

You wish you could fly?

Oh!

The Gibble Goose girls!

You want me to go get the Gibble Goose girls!

Isn't it amazing how much Hazel can say without using words?

**Edwina:** Hi, Rabbit.

What are you doing?

**Rabbit:** Oops! Hang on.

I can talk!

Hazel's not feeling well and she's lost her voice and she wants you to use your trunk to sniff for chamomile flowers!

**Edwina:** Chamomile! Sure!

**Jade:** What's going on?

**Amber:** Why the big hurry?

**Mouse:** Hazel can't talk, but she needs to tell you something important!

So she's going to try to tell you by showing you!

**Pearl:** We love body talking!

**Mouse:** Waving whiskers!

That's what we've been doing!

Body talking!

That means she wants you to find something.

Ready to guess what?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Ready!

**Coral:** Ticklish?

**Jade:** Itchy!

**Amber:** Itchy?

**Pearl and Coral:** Clumsy? Hot?

**Amber:** Slippery?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Whoo! Yay!

**Jade:** You want us to find something slippery?

**Mouse:** Something slippery that's...

**Coral:** Standing still?

**Amber:** Growing?

**Jade:** Stretching?

**Pearl:** Waving?

**Mouse:** A tree?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** A tree!

**Jade:** But what kind of tree?

**Pearl:** Oak?

**Amber:** Chestnut?

**Jade:** Elm?

**Amber:** You want us to find a slippery elm tree!

**Jade:** Right away!

But why?

**Pearl:** You want us to give it a pat?

**Amber:** Bark!

**Jade:** Oh! You want us to find you some slippery elm bark!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Woo-hoo! Yay! Yes! So good!

**Jade:** We know where to get lots!

**Rabbit:** Edwina's sniffing for the flowers you need.

**Mouse:** And the Gibble Goose girls are going to get you some slippery elm bark.

**Rabbit:** Is there anything else we can do for you?

**Mouse:** OK. We're ready to try to guess!

Oh, poor Hazel.

You're all tuckered out from body talking.

**Rabbit:** We need to think of a different way for you to talk to us.

Time for a hop-think!

How can we help Hazel talk without using her voice?

**Mouse:** Talking is sounds.

What if we came up with a new way for Hazel to make sounds?

**Rabbit:** Great idea!

How?

**Mouse:** By banging on something?

**Rabbit:** Right.

Too tiring.

**Mouse:** Blowing?

**Rabbit:** Thumpeka! That's it!

Hazel can make sounds by blowing into something!

**Mouse:** Now we just have to find something for her to blow into!

How about leaf with a hole in it?

Too silly.

**Rabbit:** We'd be too busy laughing to help!

Maybe this clump of moss?

**Mouse:** Even sillier.

Oh! And now your lips are green.

**Rabbit:** Keep looking!

Ooh!

What about this!

**Mouse:** I like that sound.

Can it make any others?

**Rabbit:** It's almost like a real voice!

**Mouse:** Perfect!

**Rabbit:** All you have to do is blow into this end.

**Mouse:** It works great!

**Rabbit:** Carrotastic!

**Edwina:** Chamomile!

Uh, did you toot "thank you"?

Oh! You're welcome!

**Amber:** We're back.

**Coral:** With slippery elm bark...

**Pearl:** Just for you!

**Jade:** Here!

**Gibble Goose Girls:** You're welcome!

**Mouse:** Everything worked out great!

Edwina found the flowers, the Gibble Goose girls found the slippery elm bark, and Rabbit and I found that talking stick.

**Amber:** One more thing?

**Mouse:** I wonder what Hazel needs now?

**Pearl:** Uh... you want to dance?

**Rabbit:** Aren't you feeling too sick to dance?

**Coral:** It's a beaver... with wings?

**Edwina:** A fish with legs?

**Mouse:** Clouds?

**Mouse, Gibble Goose Girls, Rabbit and Edwina:** A bee!

**Rabbit:** You need a bee?

**Mouse:** You need to eat a bee?

**Gibble Goose Girls:** Honey!

**Rabbit:** Oh! I know where to get some! Hello, bees!

"Buzz-buzz" to you too.

Just need a bit of honey.

Ooh, very nice.

Looks yummy.

Thank you, bees!

Here you go!

**Edwina:** Interesting.

**Rabbit:** It just keeps getting goopier.

**Mouse:** Oh! Now I get it!

You needed us to get you chamomile, slippery elm bark and honey, so that you could make something to help your throat feel better!

**Pearl:** Blort?

**Coral:** Blurt?

**Amber:** Splap?

**Jade:** Oh! You said thank you!

**Gibble Goose Girls, Mouse, Rabbit and Edwina:** You're welcome!

**Mouse:** Hazel couldn't talk, but she found all kinds of ways to show us what she wanted: by pointing, body-talking, tooting and drawing.

And together we helped find all the things she needed for her sore throat.

Hazel's feeling much better now!

**Rabbit, Mouse and Edwina:** Flapping? Fluttering?

Swimming? Flying!

Butterfly! A dragonfly?