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.
Nervous about a noisy birthday party, Pablo 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.
Pablo can't find his Big Book of Animals. He needs to make sure that it is still exactly the same. This is where the Book Animals come from, so they want to find it too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pablo is very uncomfortable and doesn't know what's wrong. He draws himself as a scribble and his friends have to work out who he is and why he's feeling so scribbly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pablo is confused by a late birthday present. He doesn't want to open it because he doesn't know what's inside and doesn't like surprises.
Pablo gets very excited by Mum's mechanical hand whisk. He draws Mr Whizzy, who whizzes up everything and makes a huge mess!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Mum wants Pablo to tidy his room, but his untidy toys and clothes are all calling him at the same time, and soon Pablo is so confused that he struggles to do anything at all.
When Lorna shows Pablo her new pet guinea pig, Tang wants to grab it, but getting too close makes Noa feel wobbly. Pablo and his friends need to learn how to act around it.
Uncle John gives Pablo a toy car, but Pablo already has one that is exactly the same and thinks one of them needs to go back to the shops. But how to choose?
Mum tells Pablo not to touch the doughnuts, the flowers and the vase on the table, but telling Tang not to touch something only makes him want to touch it more!
Pablo loves his fluffy jacket so much that he decides to keep it on inside. Mum says he doesn't need it, but Pablo knows his fluffy jacket needs him or it will feel lonely.
Pablo wants to play with his cousin Lorna, but he can't because Draff, wanting everything to stay in the proper place, keeps sending the toy cars back to the box.
Pablo doesn't always like being looked at, so when Mum's friend Fiona draws attention to him, he tries to find a way to make himself invisible.
Mum has lost something, but tells Pablo it's nothing to worry about. Now he is really worried - Mum has lost her nothing! It's up to Pablo and his friends to find it.
Pablo loves Uncle John's box of buttons, but Tang can't resist opening it and letting the buttons out to share the smells, shapes and memories of the places they're from.
A parcel Mum has been expecting is lost in the post, so Pablo and his friends go into the Art World to find it, discovering how sending letters and parcels works along the way.
Pablo wants to play now, but is sad to discover all the toys in the toy shop are getting ready to go to sleep for the night. It's almost closing time. What can he do?
A special episode for the pandemic. Pablo has had to be at home more often now, and wonders about things changing again. Can the Book Animals help his worries?
It’s story time! The Book Animals gather round to hear Pablo’s favourite Christmas story, ‘Little Tree’, a tale about a small tree who feels very over whelmed at Christmas.