Big and Small

Big wakes up one morning and thinks: something is missing from my house. While he is looking for this something there's a knock at the door. And in walks Small. Big's first ever visitor; looking to have fun. Big, excited to have a guest, shows Small the garden swing that's hanging from the apple tree. But zooming through the air on a big swing isn't a lot of fun for a Small, especially when he ends up with a smooshed nose. What is fun, however, is a small model car that Big brings out of his tool shed. Fun, you see, comes in different sizes. And watching Small race around the room makes Big realize that's what is missing from the house. A Small - and a friend. A best friend. And Small, too, has found his best friend and a home. When Small knocks on Big's front door, Big's life will never be the same again!

Big decides to help Small by building him a teeny tiny itsy bitsy front door. Big is confused when Small tells him rather huffily that he likes the big door, that the big door is A-OK. Big sighs about not knowing what he's done wrong and looks through the small door with regret at apparently upsetting his friend. Uh oh. Big finds himself stuck in this narrow opening - and has to call out for help. Big realises that this is the first time he has ever asked Small for help - and that he should, of course, have asked Small if he wanted help with the front door before just going ahead. Small leaps to the occasion and, with judicious use of butter and pulleys, yanks Big free. Small admits that he knows Big only had good intentions with the door - and they decide to celebrate their friendship by going off to tickle the frogs. Big finds himself in a sticky situation when he looks through Small's new door!

Small sees a fish in the garden pond and immediately wants to put it in a bowl for a house pet. Big, who's busy building a boat, thinks that fishes are better off left where they are, in the water. Small, however, just knows that this fish will be the best pet ever and early one morning creeps down to the pond on a mission to bring him back to the house. Small finds the fish - but is suddenly dragged and yanked through the water by what is one ferocious aquatic animal! Small staggers back to the house, wondering if a worm would make a better pet. Small wants the fish in Big's pond for a pet - but the fish has other ideas!

Big thinks that Small is creating a mess all over the house and invents a machine which tidies away all of Small's debris. Small, shocked, tells Big that the pile of dirty socks Big has just sucked into his machine is actually a scientific experiment and that the old red jelly lid is a model of the planet Mars! Small decides to walk away and find some place else to live in - and discovers, through a mouse hole, a neat little room where he builds a fort from a sofa and bounces on the bed... 'What is going on in here!' cries Ruby, the pink mouse, whose home it is. She is not impressed with the fort. Big intervenes to calm her down and decides that the best thing to do is build Small a space of his own where he can be - well, where he can be Small! Big and Small introduce themselves properly to Ruby. Small drives through a hole in the wall and discovers a mysterious room.

When Big is building his latest invention, a Sunshine Catcher, he loses the doohickey that is integral to the machine's operation. He sinks into a deep funk and lay on his bed fiddling with the pieces of a puzzle. Unknown to Big, Small had put the doohickey into his collecting bag of bright, shining objects, totally unaware that it was the actual, important doohickey. Small endeavours to cheer up Big by trying hugs and pulling funny faces and doing some cool dancing... nothing works. Small then hits on the idea of making Big a cheer-up cake. He's sure that will work. When the cake is baked and iced Small thinks it needs a finishing touch: and he uses the shining doohickey from his collection. When Big sees the cake he sees the missing item and leaps happily from the bed. Result! Will Small's cool dancing cheer up Big?

Small wants the glorious apple that's hanging from the tree, even though Big tells him it's not yet ripe... But Small looks so sad that Big puts friendship above his knowledge of apples and picks the fruit. But 'Yuck! That's not an apple, that's a lemon!' is Small's reaction to the first bite. Big takes a bite himself to see if it really is that sour - and recoils with horror when a voice speaks to him from inside his mouth! He has swallowed something that lived in the apple! Small reaches in to free the trapped creature - who turns out to be a sassy but warm-hearted worm. She doesn't have a name but suggest they call her Twiba: The Worm In Big's Apple. And now Big and Small have a new friend out in the garden. Small asks Big to pick the juiciest apple on the tree - but the apple is home to a talkative green worm!