Tip the Mouse

Tip, Billy, Offy and their fathers are going camping in the woods. Dr. Bigtail tells the children the story of the elf in the woods, who can make your wishes come true – if you can find him. The pups are fascinated by the story and go off into the woods in search of the elf. But will they find him before their fathers find them?

Tip just cannot fool Mommy! She always knows exactly what’s going on! How does she do it? Tip is convinced that Mommy is magic, and he follows her about all day to try and find out what her magic is.

Tip is tired of the same old routine every day: brush your teeth, put your pyjamas on, go to bed… What would the world be like if everything were backwards, like in a mirror, he wonders. And suddenly, Mommy becomes messy and frivolous, Billy becomes a bully, and Jody can’t seem to get anything right: everything is backwards! And it’s not really much fun at all...

Tip wants to be like his favourite comic-book superhero, but nothing he does seems to be worthy of a true hero. In the end, he realises you don’t need to do something dramatic to be a hero.

Tip doesn’t want to fasten his safety belt in the car because it’s uncomfortable, it’s tight, it chokes him and he can’t move around. Well then they’ll walk, says Daddy. After taking a walk around the village, Tip realises safety really is important, and he promises he’ll always fasten his safety belt.

The kindergarten is putting on a play. At the rehearsals, Tip realises he is afraid of getting up and saying his lines in front of his classmates and Miss Maggie. Tip is disappointed, but with Raphael’s valuable advice, he figures out how to overcome his stage fright and be a successful actor.

Tip and Jody realise everybody has a profession… except them! So they decide to find their profession, and they try everything they can think of, with no luck. The two of them are disappointed, but they soon find out that they already have a profession, a very tough one: profession pup!

Tip remembers how he felt when he was told he was going to have a sister. He was convinced that mum and dad would replace him with this newcomer.