Come on, come and sit down.
Listen very quietly to a story.
I love listening to stories, don't you?
I'm Mimi and I tell stories.
Cave baby's lucky.
He lives inside a cave
with his mum who's good at painting and his dad who's very brave.
And a sabre-toothed tiger, a hyena and a hare
and a grey woolly mammoth, and a big brown bear.
Cave baby's lonely. Nobody will play.
Dad is busy being brave.
Mum says, "keep away".
But mom and dad are furious, and say: look what he is done!
Cave mum fetches water. She mutters and she wipes.
Cave dad wags his finger.
"If you don't take care,
a mammoth's going to throw you to the big brown bear!"
Cave baby's restless.
He's feeling wide awake.
A long grey trunk comes sneaking in, all wiggly like a snake.
where are you taking me?
Where, tell me where?
Are you going to throw me to the big brown bear?
A cackle in the bracken!
A hyena's laughing there.
Has he heard a joke about the big brown bear?
A cave in the hillside!
I wonder who lives there?
I hope it's not ...
Don't let it be ...
the big brown bear!
The cave is bright with moonlight.
The walls are plain and bare.
Snoring in the shadows!
Someone's sleeping there.
Cave baby's worried.
He doesn't understand...
Until the woolly mammoth pops a paintbrush in his hand.
Then the mammoth wakes his family and says,
Look what he's done!
And they rollick and they frolic,
they trumpet and they crash,
They wade into the water. They roll and romp and splash.
They shake the baby by the hand, then lift their trunks and wave.
As the mammoth picks him up again and takes him to his cave.
Cave baby's happy.
He's fast asleep in bed.
He dreams about a tiger with stripes of pink and red,
and a grass-green hyena, and a sky-blue hare,
And a moon yellow mammoth...
and a small brown bear.
And that's Mimi and meee...