Pablo

Big Purple Bird

Pablo and his Mum are getting ready to go to a wedding, but when Pablo discovers a big purple creature with feathers on top of her head he wonders where his Mum has gone.

The Party Present

Pablo is nervous about a noisy birthday party and runs back to the car. In the art world his friends join him and help him realise that a party is just when friends get together.

The Big Book of Animals

Pablo can't find his Big Book Of Animals. He needs to make sure that it is still exactly the same. This is where his friends the Book Animals come from, so they want to find it too.

The Lost Smell

After having a bath, Pablo is upset that his smell is gone. He enlists the help of Bubble Bottle and his friends to track down his smell and follow it down the drain.

The Super Place

Mouse finds the noisy colours of the supermarket overwhelming. Pablo and his friends try to help, putting her in the trolley and letting her look at the lovely quiet list.

The Noise Dragon

When Pablo is woken by banging and scraping he draws a cave to hide in, afraid of the noise dragon. His friends hide with him and help draw a castle for better protection.

Taste of Triangles

When Pablo's Granny makes his lunch, she cuts his sandwiches into squares. But Pablo only eats triangles. The Book Animals try to help Pablo find his real lunch.

Goodnight Blues

It's bedtime, but Pablo keeps turning the light back on. Wren worries that when you go to sleep, you disappear. Mouse doesn't think this is true, but Pablo agrees with Wren.

Mirror Boy

Pablo is fascinated with the boy in the mirror. He draws his new friend and introduces him to the art world, but being friends with a reflection has its own limitations.

The Fiona

When Pablo meets Mum's friend Fiona, all he notices about her is one bright, shiny button. He tells the Book Animals it's a Fiona, but they have all seen something different.

Talked Out

Pablo doesn't want to talk, but Draff finds it difficult not to. Slowly together Pablo and his friends find ways of playing without words, through movement and their senses.

The Sparkles

Pablo is splashing in a puddle, making little spots of light dance about on the surface. Everyone loves these sparkles and it soon becomes a game of trying to catch them.

The Aroma

There is an unusual smell in the house that Pablo finds very distracting. In the Art World this aroma becomes a swirling character that makes it hard to think or speak at all.

Squeak, Squeak, Squeak

One day Pablo hears a strange sound and discovers his Mum has some squeaky new shoes. He wants to know what they're trying to say. Are the shoes crying or laughing?

Big Coat, Small Coat

When Pablo's mum says his coat is getting too small, Pablo is horrified. He draws himself small so his old coat will still fit, but what he really needs is a new one.

Tummy Talk

Pablo is making funny noises. Noa thinks he might have swallowed something like a telephone or a radio. They realise it's his tummy, but nobody knows what it's trying to say.

The New Crayons

Pablo's old crayons are running out, but his new ones are the wrong shade, design and smell. The Book Animals are worried. Without crayons, Pablo won't be able to draw any more.

Chasing the Breeze

Pablo loves feeling the breeze as he swings on the swing. When it's someone else's turn, Pablo enters the Art World and draws a bigger swing before drawing an aeroplane.

Facts and Mistakes

Pablo makes a mistake in his drawing and colours in his shorts the wrong colour, so he decides not to draw himself at all. But his friends in the Art World want to find him.

Scaredy Cat

Pablo is scared by a print on the wall of a cafe. He draws a very confusing world in response and decides it's okay to be a scaredy cat. Everybody is scared of something.

One Mum's Rubbish

Pablo likes plastic ice cream spoons even more than ice cream. He keeps them and makes them his friends, but Draff says he can't keep and make friends with everything.

The Wildman

Pablo doesn't want a haircut, so he draws a picture and enters the Art World. But Tang draws a huge scribble of hair all over Pablo and warns him about becoming The Wildman.

Slippy Mouth

Pablo is struggling to understand his mum. Her voice sounds disjointed and garbled. Draff thinks it sounds like Slippy Mouth, a very naughty creature who jumbles words up.

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Pablo and the Book Animals are repeating jingles and playing with words, treating them as sounds that don't mean anything, which Mouse and Draff find very confusing.

Paint the Music

Pablo sees colours coming from the radio! He uses his crayons like a conductor and draws colourful music, but Draff insists that music is for your ears, not your eyes.

Feeling Scribbly

Pablo is very uncomfortable and doesn't know what's wrong. He draws himself as a scribble and his friends have to figure out who he is and why he's feeling so scribbly.

Into the Fluff

Pablo is fascinated by the tiny strands of colour he can see in a piece of lint. In the Art World, he and his friends follow the strands, going deeper and deeper into the fluff.

Crisps Everywhere

Pablo opens a packet of crisps too fast and his crisps go everywhere. Pablo and his friends go to the top of a mountain, to the bottom of the sea and to the moon to get them back.

Happiness

Pablo has a funny tickly feeling inside and doesn't know what to make of it. He draws himself into the Art World, where his friends discover he's full of happy sparkles.

Pick Us, Pablo

Pablo can't decide which shoes to wear because he thinks the shoes he doesn't choose will feel sad. His friends try to find a solution, such as wearing shoes on his hands and his head.

The Duvetsaurus

Pablo finds an itchy label in his t-shirt and decides not to get dressed. He makes himself into a duvetsaurus so he can be like his Book Animal friends and not wear clothes.

Surprise

When Pablo gets a birthday present after his birthday, he finds it very confusing. He doesn't want to open it because he doesn't know what's inside and doesn't like surprises.

Mr Whizzy

Pablo gets very excited by Mum's mechanical hand whisk. He draws Mr Whizzy, and he and Tang get even more excited as he whizzes up everything and makes a huge mess!

When Foods Collide

Pablo goes to a cafe with his mum and gets an egg and spaghetti hoops, but his food is upset. The spaghetti hoops keep touching the egg cat, and it doesn't like that at all!

Word Search

When Pablo can't find the words to tell Granny what he wants for breakfast, his friends have to help him get them to come back again and turn into the things he needs to say.

Everything Pineapple

When Pablo sees a picture of a pineapple, he gets the taste in his mouth and it won't go away. Soon everything and everyone in the Art World looks and tastes like pineapple too!

Night Noises

Pablo's mum has friends round for dinner, but the noises are making it hard for Pablo to sleep. He wants to get away or cover the noises up, but Tang just wants to party.

Back and Forth

Pablo doesn't want to wait for a blancmange to set. He wants to eat it now. He draws a controller like an iPad to speed up the time, but that creates problems of its own.

Around the Houses

When the bus that Pablo and his mum are waiting for is late, Draff gets anxious. He knows every bus route and all the details of the timetable, and he likes things to be on schedule.

Flapping Away

Pablo likes flapping. Wren says flying is even better and draws wings on Pablo, but he flaps so much that he flies away and the Book Animals have to track him down.

The Smell Gobbler

When Mum leaves a can of air freshener on the counter, it's up to Pablo and his friends to stop the Smell Gobbler eating all the smells in the house, including the nice ones!

Feeling Floaty

Pablo thinks he'll float away if he puts down his pine cones. Draff disagrees, but when Pablo puts them down, he floats up into the sky and his friends have to rescue him.

Scab Billy

Pablo discovers a scab on his knee and is upset. He's never seen one before and doesn't know why it's stuck to him. But he soon learns that Scab Billy is there for a reason.

Face Feelings

Pablo is surprised to learn that his face is saying things to people he doesn't know about. He has no idea what his face is doing, until the Book Animals help him find out.

The Lift

Pablo is worried about the lift at the department store, but with the help of his friends in the Art World he learns what the buttons are for and how to get safely out again.

Book Spider

Pablo loves the Book Animals, but when he gets a new book with a spider in it, Pablo thinks the spider looks scary. But it turns out the spider is a bit frightened as well.

Missing Music

Pablo hears a song on the radio and wants to hear it again, but he can't make it come out anymore. The Book Animals try to help him find a way to get it back again.

Zip it

Pablo is fascinated with the way the zipper on his coat closes up and opens again. With his friends in the Art World Pablo explores the magic of opening and closing things.

Journey to the Centre of the Telly

Pablo wants to know what is happening to the characters on his favourite TV program after the TV is turned off. Luckily Noa has an idea about how they can find out!

Captain Pinecone

Pablo has two pinecones for tapping, which turn out to be explorers! They lead the Book Animals on a journey to discover sounds and textures and Llama makes an aural map.

How are You?

When the Fiona asks Pablo how he is, Pablo doesn't know the answer. He explores the question with his friends in the Art World and they all try to figure out what it means.

Water Boy

Pablo loves watching the rain. Some of his in the Art World friends don't. Draff and Mouse hate getting wet, but Pablo loves the rain so much that he actually turns into it!

The New Sofa

Chicken Pops

Llama the Lion

The Swimming Pool

The Number Snake

Up in the Clouds

Locomotion

The Floating Mattress

Magic Towel

Bleugh

A Visit to the Zoo

What a Picture

Big Boy

Sorry Bowl

Too Many Tasks

The Guinea Pig

The Gift

Can't Touch This

My Fluffy Friend

In Point of Draff

Hiding Places

Nothing to Worry About

Box of Buttons

Magic Post Box

Toy Shop

Finger Prince

The Repair Person

Distractionland

The Hut

Buzz Buzz Buzz

Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye!

Murky Moods

Sun Cream

Wheel of Pasta

Headache Volcano

Follow the Shapes

Oink, Cluck, Neigh!

Touchy Feely

Joining Out

Draff's Robot

In Point of View

House Time

United Kingdom

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Magic crayons, animated friends and a wonderful imagination… these are the tools that five and a half year-old Pablo uses to turn life's little challenges into big adventures.The audience joins Pablo, who is on the autism spectrum, as he journeys from real life into the animated art world he creates, where his animal friends help him to handle situations which make him feel anxious, such as going for a haircut or to the supermarket.

Pablo

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