1. EXT. Olive’s BACKYARD – DAY It’s OLIVE’S birthday, and she’s celebrating with a party outside at her house with her mom (MS. ELEPHANT) and some of her friends, including ELINOR, ARI, SALLY, and TITO. We open as the kids and mom are finishing <SFX: SINGING HAPPY BIRTHDAY>. We pan over some of the characters as they sing. ARi/ELINOR/Tito/Sally ...Haaaappy Biiirthday to Youuuuuu ! We stop on Olive, who is wearing a birthday crown and looking excited, sitting in front of a beautifully decorated but clearly home-made cake. Nearby there is a stack of presents (not too many). As the song ends, we hear everyone <SFX: WALLA, CHEER, YAY, CLAPPING> and Olive gets a few hugs. ELINOR Happy Birthday, Olive! OLIVE (sheePISH, a bit shy) Aww , thanks everyone. MS. ELEPHANT Make a wish and blow out your candles, dear. She smiles, thinks for a second and then uses her trunk to blow out the candles on the cake <SFX: BLOW/TRUMPET>. Everyone cheers <SFX: WALLA, CHEER, YAY, CLAPPING> and her mom blows her <SFX: trunk-trumpet >, too. ELINOR What did you wish for, Olive? OLIVE I wished for the whole world to feel happy... and that I could open my presents right now! Can I open them, Mom? They all look at MS. ELEPHANT. Ms. Elephant Well, I suppose that would be alright . We can cut the cake afterwards. Go ahead, sweetie. The kids <SFX: CHEER>. Ari looks to the kid next to him. ARI Oooh , ohh , I hope she opens my present first. She’s going to love it! Elinor takes the top present from the pile and hands it to Olive. OLIVE This one is from... Tito. Tito beams. Ari looks a bit impatient/disappointed. Olive open’s Tito’s present. OLIVE (CONT’D) It’s a book! TITO It’s all about insects that start with the letter M. OLIVE (flipping through it) Moths, mites, millipedes. That’s MMMMMMarvelous . Thank you, Tito! Tito smiles. Back on Ari, still excited. ARI Ooh , I hope she opens mine next. Elinor hands Olive the next present. OLIVE This one is from... Elinor. Elinor smiles. Ari slumps his shoulders. Olive opens Elinor’s present. OLIVE (CONT’D) It’s another book! ELINOR It’s about birds from all around the world. OLIVE Thank you! Ostriches and penguins and robins. And look at this! The book unfolds into a pop-up book with a bird that flaps its wings when you open/close the book. <SFX: Ooooooooooh > . Ari sneaks over to the present pile and pulls his out of the stack and hands it to Olive. ARI (NONCHALANTLY) I think this one is next. I wonder who it’s from? OLIVE Oh, it’s from you, Ari! ARI I know! Open it! She opens it. OLIVE It’s also a book! ARI Not just any book. It’s a book ABOUT books! OLIVE Oh, it shows you all the different kinds of books there are: history books, nature books, coloring books. Amazing. Thank you, Ari! Ari looks very proud. CROSSFADE TO: we see the pile of books has grown to five. Ms. Elephant returns with plates for everyone. MS. Elephant Olive, you got more books. How wonderful! Why don’t you take them up to your room while I set up for cake. The kids offer to help. <SFX: Walla ELINOR - we’ll help/ARI- I’ll come/SALLY - LET’S GO > They each grab a book and head into the house. 2. INT HALLWAY -- DAY Elinor, Olive, Ari, Tito and Sally are making their way to Olive’s room. ELINOR You sure got a lot of books today, Olive. olive Yeah, I have the best friends. Everyone knows how much I love books! ARI Where are you going to put them all? OLIVE Where else? In my room. 3. INT OLIVE’s ROOM -- DAY Elinor and Ari and the other kids enter Olive’s room and we reveal: Olive’s room is FULL of books. There are stacks of books EVERYWHERE. ARI Wow, you have a LOT of books, Olive. Sally Where should we put them? The kids look for a place to put the books down. Comically bumping into each other. There’s no place to put them down! OLIVE Here, there’s a little bit of room next to my bookshelf. The kids make a new stack along the window between the bookcase and dresser, and then look around. ELINOR Have you read ALL these books, Olive? OLIVE Every single one! Sometimes more than once. Sally picks up a book near her. SALLY Wow, it’s a book about making things out of wood! I’d love to read this one. OLIVE Yeah, that one has really good ideas for projects. Tito picks up a book and opens it. TITO Cool, a book about running. I love to run. He runs a few laps around the room, dodging the kids and the stacks of books. OLIVE Yeah, that’s a great book too, Tito. She runs a bit with Tito, <SFX: GIGGLING>, but then she knocks down a small pile of books <SFX: WHOOPS>. They reach down to stack them back up. ELINOR Uh, Olive... pretty soon you won’t have much room left in your... room. ARI A room without room! Hah ! Get it? (off everyone’s look) Aaaanyway . What are you going to do with all these books, Olive? OLIVE Keep them, of course! I like to keep them because I love books. Ari and Elinor look at each other with slight concern. At that moment, Olive’s mom calls out to them. MS. Elephant(O.S.) Yoo hoo , kids, it’s time for cake! Ari’s stomach grumbles and the kids <SFX: CHEER>. Tito and Sally set down the books they were holding and they all run out the door. As they leave, the camera lingers on a teetering stack of books near the door. 4. EXT. OLIVE’S BACKYARD - DAY A cross-fade later, we open on a top view of Olive’s cake (some already served) as Ms. Elephant passes out the slices. The kids are all sitting around the table. OLIVE Yay, banana birthday cake, my favorite! ARI (munching) It’s SO GOOD. I wish we could have birthday cake every day. OLIVE You only get one birthday a year, silly. ARI Sure, but every day is SOMEONE’s birthday. They all <SFX: GIGGLE>. Then something catches Elinor’s attention. ELINOR Ooh , look at that ant. (She sees a small ant carrying a tiny (but big for the ant) seed off the table.) I wonder where it’s taking that seed? Curious, she follows it down the table leg and onto the grass. Soon, she sees it join a trail of other ants carrying and pulling little seeds. ELINOR (CONT’D) Wow, it’s a whole bunch of ants! Other kids notice that Elinor is interested in something and join her. ELINOR (CONT’D) And they’re carrying seeds somewhere. ARI Where are they going? ELINOR Let’s find out. We need MORE OBSERVATIONS! Musical moment as the kids follow the trail of ants, like a trail of ants themselves: across the yard, and over a rock and a log. Soon, they arrive at the ant hill near the edge of Olive’s yard. ELINOR (CONT’D) It looks like they’re all going in there. OLIVE That’s where the ants live. It’s called an ant hill. ARI Cool! OLIVE There are THOUSANDS of ants inside. I read all about it in a book about ants I have in my room. In a THOUGHT BUBBLE, we see Olive’s ant book over her shoulder. It shows a few ants carrying a little seed on the cover. She opens it, and we see a cutout diagram of an ant hill. Olive (CONT’D) All animals need food, water, air, and SPACE to live, and that’s why ants have the anthill. It has lots of little rooms for them to live in. The bubble pops. Elinor looks at the ants entering the ant hill. ELINOR What are they doing with all those seeds? Olive looks more closely at the ants. OLIVE I think these are harvester ants. It’s a special kind of ant that brings seeds back to the anthill to eat. ari Because they need food, too. ( after a beat) Hmm. That seed is bigger than the ant’s belly! Isn’t that too much for one ant? OLIVE I read about that, too! The ants share their food with each other. We see another THOUGHT BUBBLE. OLIVE (CONT’D) They put all the seeds in a special room, and then the other ants come and get some when they’re hungry. SALLY How nice. That way everyone gets something to eat. ELINOR That is SO INTERESTING. sally I wish I knew as much about ants as you do, Olive. TITO Me too. That ant book sounds really fun to read. OLIVE It’s a great book. You know what? I’ll go get it from my room and show it to you. Wait here! Olive leaves the group as she crosses the yard to go back into the house. 5. INT. OLIVE’S ROOM - DAY Back in her room, Olive looks for her ant book among the big mess of books. OLIVE Hmmm, that’s not it. That’s not it. Where is it? (After a beat, she finds it.) Aha! Here it is! She finds the book near the bottom of a large stack. She tugs on it, and the tower of books teeters slightly. OLIVE (CONT’D) (grunting slightly) Come out, little book. Olive tries to carefully pull on it, but it seems to be stuck. Finally, she gives it a yank and pulls it out. OLIVE (CONT’D) Uh oh! The stack of books teeters. Olive backs up, and oops, trips on some other books and falls into a stack of books as the other stack teeters and... 6. EXT. OLIVE’S BACK YARD -- DAY Outside, we hear a distant <SFX: THUMP, (if it works logically, given Olive’s room is quite far>, as the kids are waiting near the ant hill. Most of the kids are still admiring the ants, but Elinor takes notice. ELINOR Hmm, Olive is taking a long time. ARI Wasn’t she just getting that book? SALLY She should be back by now. They look at each other, remembering her messy stacks of books. ELINOR Maybe we should go check on her. 7. INT. OLIVE’S ROOM - DAY A cross-fade later, Elinor and Ari approach the room. The entrance is slightly blocked by toppled stacks of books. As they make their way in, they call out: ARI Olive? Are you in here? She’s splayed out on top of some more toppled books, still holding the book she pulled out. OLIVE I’m here! Could I get a little help? Elinor and Ari help her up. elinor What happened? OLIVE I was trying to get the ant book from under some other books, but then I fell into this pile of books. ARI No wonder. It’s a book-o-rama in here! Tito and Sally come in. Tito Are you ok , Olive? OLIVE Yeah, I think there might be a few too many books in here. But what can I do? They all scratch their heads for a beat. Olive looks at the book she’s been holding all this time. It’s the ant book. She looks at the cover drawing of the ants sharing a seed, and has an epiphany. OLIVE (CONT’D) I know. Maybe I should be like the ants! ELINOR What do you mean? OLIVE Remember how I told you that ants share their food? ARI (smacks his lips) You want to share food with us? OLIVE No, I should share my books! Olive goes over to Sally and hands her the woodworking book near her. OLIVE (CONT’D) Sally, did you say you wanted to read this book? SALLY Yeah. OLIVE I’ll share it with you. Please, take it home. SALLY Oh, thank you! OLIVE Tito, here is the running book you wanted to read. TITO Wow, really? OLIVE You can borrow it as long as you like. And when you’re done, you can share it with other kids too. TITO Thanks, I will! ELINOR Are you sure you want to share ALL your books, Olive? OLIVE Well, I have my extra special books in this bookcase. I want to keep those here. And I want to keep all the books I got as presents today. But the rest are books I’m happy to share. Ari looks around at all the books. ARI How are you going to share ALL these books? There are too many to carry around town. TITO You could put them in your living room. ELINOR Or maybe outside, so everyone can get to them. ARI But what if it rains? Just then, Sally looks up from her book. SALLY I have an idea. You know how ants have a special place where they put all the food they share? We see a thought bubble of the ant food chamber from before. SALLY (CONT’D) Maybe we can make a special place for the books you want to share, just like the ants do? She opens the woodworking book to a page that shows a mini-library project (a small standing cabinet, like the kind you see outside schools or homes). The kids look excitedly at the book. ELINOR That’s a great idea! We can put it outside, and that way everyone can come borrow a book. ARI Cool! And they will stay dry. OLIVE A mini-library! Let’s do it! We launch into a ditty with the kids dancing and sharing books and building the mini-library together outside (Sally Beaver, with her awesome beaver teeth, cuts the pieces in no time, while Ms. Elephant helps them assemble). ELINOR/ARI/OLIVE Here a book, there a book Look, look, share a book! It’s fun to share ‘Cause it shows you care! Want to learn about silly hats? Well, Olive’s got (Ari only) A book about that! (Ari only) Want to know Why cows say moo? Well, Olive’s got (Elinor only) Just the book for you!(Elinor only) Take a book, give a book Look, look, share a book! It’s fun to share ‘Cause it shows you care! 8. EXT. FRONT OF OLIVE’S HOUSE After the song, we see that the mini-library is finished, and Olive is finishing putting in some books. Ari and Elinor come huffing down the path, carrying some books. ELINOR I brought some books from my house to share. ARI Me too! I’ve got one about rocket ships, and one about cars and one about muffins. SALLY I’ve got books to share too! I’ll bring them later. TITO Me too! The kids all smile at the success of their project. OLIVE Thank you for coming to my party. ELINOR It was really fun. Ari picks out and opens the ant book. ARI And we learned a lot about ants! OLIVE This is the best gift ever: Now I have more room in my room AND my own little library. elinor So everyone can share. olive Yeah, because everything is always better when you share. ARI ANT that’s the truth. (Everyone looks at Ari) Get it? Because of the ANTS? The kids all share a big <SFX: GIGGLE>. On a wide angle, we see two small harvester ants nearby carrying a seed as we... IRIS OUT SEGMENT 2. 1. INT. CLASSROOM - DAY Pan in from the window that shows a snowy wintery setting outside. Olive stands at the front of the class proudly showing off a jar of cherries. Mz. Mole stands by as the rest of the class sits in the audience. MZ. MOLE What are you sharing with us today, Olive? OLIVE Delicious summer cherries! The kids marvel at the red, glistening treasure. <SFX: OOOO ! AHHH!> ARI Hey waitaminute . How do you have summer cherries in the middle of winter? OLIVE My Mom and I picked them last summer and saved them. MZ. MOLE You know, that reminds me of a special kind of ant that saves food for later. Elinor perks up. ELINOR Ants save up food too? MZ. MOLE Sure - I have a book all about that! The kids crowd around to get a closer look as Mz. Mole opens up her Magic Pop-up Book. 2. EXT DRY FOREST FLOOR (BOOK) -- DAY As we peer into Mz. Mole’s book, we see ants scurrying around a dry forest floor, collecting food. MZ. MOLE (O.C.) (Cont’D) These are special kinds of ants, called “ Honeypot Ants”! ARI (O.C.) Why are they called “ Honeypot Ants”? They don’t look like pots of honey. MZ. MOLE (O.C.) Not yet, but they will! We see the ants collecting nectar from flowers. ELINOR (o.c.) What are the ants doing, Mz. Mole? MZ. MOLE (O.C.) The ants are taking nectar from the flowers. It’s their food! ARI (O.C.) Why don’t they gobble it all up right away? MZ. MOLE (O.C.) When there’s extra, they save it for later . In the book, we see an ant with a bit of food in its mouth, walking toward a tiny jar. ELINOR (O.c.) How do they save it? Ants don’t have jars, do they? MZ. MOLE (O.c.) Ha! They don’t have jars. Instead, the ants bring the extra nectar to the anthill and give it to a special ant that stores it inside its body! (In book) The jar disappears in a poof . <SFX: POOF> The ants come back to the hive and join a queue leading up to a storage ant. The workers deliver their food to the storage ant one by one. MZ. MOLE (O.S.) (CONT’D) As more ants come with extra nectar, these special ants grow... and grow.... And grow...! (In book) close up on hero ant’s body as she transforms from a normal looking ant and gradually swells to have the iconic honeypot ant shape. Her abdomen is huge and translucent, full of golden liquid food. Her little legs wiggle around, unable to move her body. She looks stuffed! ARI (O.c.) Oh, I get it! That’s why they’re called “ honeypot ants!” Their bodies look like pots full of honey! MZ. MOLE (O.c.) And this little ant shares the extra food with the other ants when they need it later! 3. INT CLASSROOM Olive proudly holds her jar of cherries aloft again. OlIVE Wow, it’s cool that ants save food for later. Just like these cherries! ARI Is it “later” yet..? Olive pops off the lid of the jar with her trunk with a flourish, and as she does so says.. OLIVE Let’s eat. THE END

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EP 131A Olive's Library By: Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson Elinor’s Question: How can we organize all of Olives’ books? Logline: The kids take inspiration from ants and make a little lending library. Curriculum Goals ND3 . ( RTL Crosscutting concept ‘Structure and Function’): Understand that structures and materials in the natural world can be used or can inspire the engineering of structures with similar function in the designed world. SEP1b . Ask more complex questions about observable phenomena. (Elinor and her friends ask more complex questions about ants) OUTLINE: November 26, 2019 FIRST DRAFT: February. 10, 2020 SECOND DRAFT: March 02, 2020 POLISH DRAFT: March 12, 2020 RECORD DRAFT: March 18, 2020 0live Ari Elinor ELINOR/ARI/OLIVE Goats Twins Koa Mary and Liv Ms. Elephant Mz. Mole Oli OlIi OlIve OLIVES MOM Olo OUTLINE Sally Tito (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) (CHILL) (sheeping, a bit shy) (whisper) INT EXT I/E 2 ELINOR WONDERS WHY CLASSROOM – DAY SCHOOL YARD NATURE WALK (BEEHIVE) -- DAY NATURE WALK (BIRD'S NEST) – DAY NATURE WALK (WILLOW TREE) – DAY NATURE WALK (ENTRANCE) -- DAY NATURE WALK (BIRDS NEST) NATURE WALK (ENTRANCE)- DAY NATURE WALK (BEEHIVE AND BIRD'S NEST) – DAY NATURE WALK ENTRANCE/ WILLOW TREE/NATURE PATH/BIRD'S NEST -- DAY SIGN BURYING MONTAGE: NATURE WALK THE END. WILLOW TREE INT HALLWAY -- DAY DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. CROSSFADE TO: