♪ Hey, wow... ♪

♪ Here's how ♪

♪ Come and read ♪

♪ Between the lions ♪

CHORUS: ♪ Come on ♪

♪ Come in ♪

♪ Begin ♪

♪ The world awaits ♪

WOMAN: ♪ Between the lions ♪

♪ Between the covers of a book ♪

♪ It's time to look between the lions ♪

♪ Behold the tales beyond the tails ♪

CHORUS: ♪ Behind the door ♪

♪ Become, explore ♪

♪ Come in between the lions ♪

♪ Begin between the lions ♪

♪ Be here between the lions! ♪

Hey, where are you going with those books

and that yummy-looking meat?!

I'm bringing them down

to the reference section and meat locker.

Oh, golly-gee, it seems such a shame

to, uh, lug it all the way down there

when it would taste so good fresh.

Mmm...

Well, I suppose a snack couldn't hurt.

( chuckling ): Yeah!

LIONEL: Hey, Mom, Dad?

Can Guinevere and I go down and play in...

( yells )

Oh, oh, Guinevere, hey, listen

why don't you go down to the...

down to the game section

and I'll be there, uh...

Oh, I'll be down there in just a second, okay?

Okay, okay, bye-bye, bye-bye.

Want a chop, Lionel?

Mom, Dad, how can you eat like that

in front of my friends?!

BOTH: Huh?

LEONA: Lionel

Lionel, Lionel

I saw your girlfriend in the games section.

Ahh, she's not my girlfriend!

Lionel, are you embarrassed

to have Guinevere see us snacking?

"Snacking"?!

Other kids' parents have popcorn;

you're tearing into a whole crate of raw meat!

( muffled ): Well, we're uh...

Huh?

We're lions, son.

This is what lions naturally do

when they're not stacking books

according to the Dewey Decimal System.

( yells )

You know, I think I have

what Lionel needs right here.

Yeah, give him that T-bone.

No, Theo, not food, a book.

Let's see, meat, meat, meat, meat, saw, meat...

Ahh, a book with folk tales.

Aha!

Hmm... ooh, it's a little juicy.

( licks )

Let's get comfortable.

Let's get comfortable, Lionel.

THEO: Yeah, nothing like getting comfortable

with a good book.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

( crashing )

Oh...

What is it, Mama?

This is... a folk tale from Dominica.

( Cleo reading )

Mr. Cutter didn't know it

but the Dancing Man was the protector of the forest.

( Dancing Man singing )

Wow, what a fun guy.

Cuddles, when I was out cutting trees

I made a new buddy.

Oh, any buddy of Mr. Cutter's

is a buddy of mine.

( singing gibberish )

( screams in disgust )

( mimicking Mrs. Cutter )

( laughing )

Is something wrong, my dear?

Your new buddy is grubby

and he's got bugs in his beard!

Yeah, but you should see him dance.

( singing )

Oh, look at him go.

He is fun!

( Cleo reading )

( speaking gibberish )

( exclaiming in gibberish )

Yes, he's fun, but he needs to be cleaned up

and taught some manners!

And how do we do that?

CLEO: The Cutters didn't have anywhere to turn for help.

Oh!

MRS. CUTTER: Why can't we turn to you?

What?

What's this?

A library!

Uh... Mama, I want to hear

the rest of the story; turn the page.

I can't, Leona, there's a head blocking it.

MR. CUTTTER: Did you say a library?

Libraries have the answers to everything.

CLEO: Yes.

THEO: That's true.

Theo, can we help them

right in the middle of their story?

Well, uh, we've done it before.

Good point.

Please, won't somebody help these people?

Their heads are sticking out of a book.

Thank you, cub.

Yeah, I think you want to look

at books about manners.

Yes, and anything you've got

about debugging filthy, buggy men.

THEO: Got you.

Hey, don't eat that!

Will this take long?

( Dancing Man singing )

CLEO: Coming, Leona?

Um, uh... I'll hurry them up, yeah.

ANNOUNCER: And now, Barnaby B. Busterfield III hugs a bug.

Uh... excuse me?

I wouldn't if I could, but I can't, so I won't.

( spider whimpering )

Ooh, uh... nothing personal!

I'm just not a big bug hugger.

All right, all right.

And now, Martha Reader and the Vowelles are cutting a rug

with the short "u"-- "uh"-- sound in the word "bug"!

( singing short "u" sound )

( repeating short "u" sound )

MONKEYS: "Bug"!

( monkeys hooting )

( crowd cheering )

GAWAIN: Excellent!

Gawain here once again at Blending Fields

where two brave knights in armor

will charge together at high speed and make a word.

Competing today we have Sir J...

( cheering )

And Sir Uggle!

( horse whinnies )

Blend on, dudes!

( cheering )

"Juggle"! Excellent!

That's Gawain's word for today, and this is Gawain saying

snuggle up with us again sometime.

We'll see you next time on...

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Leon Redbone.

REDBONE: Hmm...

The Barnaby B. Busterfield III Memorial Public Library--

I love it.

You'll find it all here cataloged A to Z

all according to the alphabet.

Here, check it out.

( music begins )

♪ A is for "Albrecht" and B is for "Busterfield" ♪

♪ And "Click" and "Cleo" start with C ♪

♪ D is for "Dot," E is for "Elephant" ♪

♪ And F is for "Fred" ♪

GAWAIN: ♪ I'm Gawain, and I start with G. ♪

REDBONE: ♪ H stands for "Heath" and I is for "Ines" ♪

♪ And J is for "Johnny Consonanti" ♪

♪ It's fun to sing about each person and thing ♪

♪ In the Busterfield Library ♪

♪ K stands for "King" ♪

♪ L is for "Lionel" and "Leona" ♪

♪ And "Leon"-- lots of luck ♪

♪ M is for "Marmy" ♪

♪ N is for "Nitwit" ♪

"Nitwhite"!

♪ O is for "Ox" and P is for "Puck" ♪

♪ Q is for "Queen" ♪

♪ R is for "Ram" ♪

♪ And S is for "Sam" ♪

♪ And "Tiger Words" starts with T ♪

♪ The Un-people's name has a U at the beginning ♪

♪ And the "Vowelles" start with V ♪

♪ W is for "Walter" ♪

♪ X marks the spot ♪

♪ Y is for "Yam," now we're up to Z ♪

( monkeys cheer )

♪ And Z is for "Zoo," now it's good-bye to you ♪

♪ From the Busterfield Library ♪

♪ We're proud to be in... ♪

♪ The Busterfield Library ♪

♪ We're A to Z in... ♪

ALL: ♪ The Busterfield Library. ♪

Yeah!

( song ends )

( imitating music )

( sounding out ): "Uh"... "g."

"Ug," "ug."

Come on, come on.

( as bug ): I'm trying.

Come on, you can do it.

Okay, okay...

Yeah, good.

( making "b" sound )

"Ug."

"Bug."

Bug.

"Bug."

Bug.

Yeah, yeah-- watch this.

What, what?

Watch.

( making "h" sound )

( repeats "h" sound )

( both repeating "h" sound )

Yeah, "hug."

Hug.

"Hug."

Hug.

"Hug."

Hug.

Bug...

Bug.

"Hug."

Hug.

Bug hug.

Oh... oh, you're crushing me.

Hello.

( making "h" sound )

Let's see, How to Walk Politely, Proper Ways of Falling...

Oh, here we are!

( laughs )

How to Debug and Teach Manners to a Buggy Old Man.

Yeah... perfect.

( Dancing Man eating noisily )

Hold on.

Put that down.

Take that out of your mouth!

( Dancing Man continues eating )

Cuddles...

you don't have to worry

about getting the bug out of your favorite rug.

I don't?

No... he ate it.

Well, keep reading!

We have to go save our house!

Uh-huh.

Okay, it says, uh...

"The way to clean a buggy gentleman

"and turn him disinfected and polite

"you must remove the bugs that have infected him

even if it takes the bloomin' night."

BOTH: Debug him in the tub and rub and rub and rub.

"Now that he is no longer filthy rotten

"you must remember he is not a child

"for adults, it mustn't be forgotten

that hair must be both clean and neatly styled."

( chuckling )

Hair clean and neatly styled.

That ought to make him smile.

Isn't he handsome?

Huh? Huh?

( cologne spraying )

Four hours and 23 minutes later...

Success! Success! Look!

( Cleo reading )

( singing sadly )

( begins sobbing )

MRS. CUTTER: Sit up straight, now, dear.

He doesn't look like he's having fun.

Uh-uh.

( sobbing )

Watson!

( squeals )

Watson, get ready to blow your trumpet

to signal to the world that I have discovered

the most important discovery ever... discovered.

I am ready, Dr. Nitwit.

Ah... "white"-- "Nitwhite."

Not... the other thing.

Yes, of course.

Trumpet ready!

Behold...

the only three-letter word in the English language

with the u-n, "un" sound, at the end.

"Un"?

Yes, "un."

( keys clicking )

"Bun."

"Bun"?

Yes, "bun"-- blow the trumpet.

Oh, right, right.