Me, You, And Transformers Energon: Furaha's Dream - I Went To The Animal Fair

The nursery rhyme 'I Went To The Animal Fair' plays a major role in Me, You, And Transformers Energon: Furaha's Dream. In 'The Truth', a chapter set during 'Each One Fights' and 'Unicron Unleashed', Furaha drinks Energon leaking from the walls around Alpha Q's lair and finds herself in a haunting hallucination where she is standing in a graveyard gazing at the graves of her dead family members, including her mother and father, which she cries deeply over. As she does, she hears her own voice singing a haunting rendition of 'I Went To The Animal Fair' in a crying and choking voice. She then finds herself in a much happier memory of her and Optimus Prime playing on the beach on earth, but the sounds of joyous laughter are blocked out by the upsetting song. Furaha decides to fight off her fears by singing her own version of the song about what she got up to during the Armada and Cybertron days:

"I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
The Autobots searched for the Mini-Cons
Optimus was just like my dad

In the days of Cybertron,
I made new friends on and on
And now I have to deal with this
AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!"

And at once, she snaps out of the hallucination.

So, at the end of each chapter, the song is repeated with different lyrics recapping what happened, and what Furaha had learnt. Like for instance after Inferno's death in the chapter 'Goodbye Inferno' the lyrics are:

"I went to the animal fair,
The birds and the beasts were there,
My dad was suffering really bad
Because of Megatron

Who helped me? Well, no one
So Inferno flew into the sun
I had no choice but start to cry
He helped me through this life."

They Came!

My pack of 50 books came today! Here they are: millions of them! Now, which shall I send to first? I'm sending three each, so I'm hoping to send them to Factory, CBBC and my various friends and relatives since they contain my favourite characters from Strange Hill High (which I believe is sadly gone from CBBC, but hey, I can still catch it on DVD), Kipper, Scream Street (which I've missed today :() and Clangers. With 3 pounds with each copy sold, I'll be RICH!

Change-About-Ray & Other Me, You, And...Lullabies

Based on Putumayo's 'Asian Dreamland' CD.

The main lullaby is based on Gobbo's spell from 'Noddy & The Golden Tree' as Furaha wishes her friends and the reader goodnight. In fact, multiple references to this TV episode are made throughout the book and its lullabies, mainly the lullaby set to Zulya's 'Cradle Song' named 'The Golden Tree' where Furaha, the Digidestined and their Digimon get beamed to the dark wood so that a dark force can help them find the golden tree, which grows golden leaves every midsummer night. This is my attempt of bringing a classic Noddy episode back for a new generation of children, along with many other original, enchanting Me, You, And...lullaby stories, like the tale of two lion brothers who brave the storm in search of their parents, from whom they've been separated.

The Bell Spell & Other Me, You, And...Lullabies & Sleep Songs

Based on the 'The Rough Guide To African Lullabies' CD.

In the main lullaby, set to the tune of 'Tabali Te', Elimu the wise jackal offers to use Noddy's bell at the end of his hat to perform a ritual in his House-For-One to help her restless family get to sleep. It also helps to bring Sly's 'Bell Spell' from 'Well Done Noddy' and the classic Noddy episode 'Noddy & The Broken Bicycle' back for a new generation of children.

Other lullabies are themed around Furaha's adventures in Megaman NT Warrior, Transformers Armada and Transformers Cybertron among others, plus there are new original stories involving original lion characters, like a lioness cub and her brown bear cub assistant who attempt to take the first step in bringing her deceased older brother back from the dead.

Me, You, And Rugrats Anthologies

If I had to pick any Nickelodeon show to be my favourite, it has to be Rugrats. This is why, in the car with Libby, I thought up new anthologies set during various Rugrats episodes, told from Spike the dog's perspective as he shares with Furaha in the babies' adventures. In between each story, there's a poem or song teaching us something not relating to the proceeding story, such as sharing and caring. One story during the book 'Halloween' sees Furaha's family going against Halloween despite the fact Furaha's friend Spike loves Halloween and wants to dress up as his television idol, 'Super Hound'.

• Outdoor Shenanigans
• Tommy Troubles
• Rugrats' Christmas
• Rugrats Save The Day
• Rugrats Run Riot
• Halloween
• The Santa Experience
• Reptar Returns
• Monster In The Garage
• Mysteries
• Holiday Celebration

The Little Friends Meet Enid Blyton - 23/1/20

• Me, You, And...Little Friends: The Magic Of The Faraway Tree - Whenever the Little Friends encounter a dilemma, they head off to the Faraway Tree in search of new lands and adventures to solve each of their problems, with help of Moonface, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man.

• Me, You, And...Little Friends: The Adventures Of The Wishing Chair - The Little Friends find a magic rocking chair shaped charm which can transport them anywhere, take them on adventures and give them the amazing ability to fly.

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Say Hola To Enrique...& Amigo Bear!

This title primarily focuses on Amigo Bear, one of the Care Bears and Tenderheart Bear's rival, who finds the magic dragon scale on his birthday and is transported to Dragon Land, where he receives a magnificent birthday present - a Spanish speaking dragon named Salsa, who can use a special radio he wears round his neck to teach other dragons Spanish phrases. Instead of songs and poems in this title, there are short, Say It With Noddy-style passages which feature Salsa using his radio charm to teach Amigo, Emmy, Max, Ord, Cassie, Zak and Wheezie a Spanish word or two during daily situations in Dragon Land.

Lifetimes

I've decided to let Optimus Prime recite 'Lifetimes', the book explaining death to children, during a chapter in 'Me, You, And Transformers Armada' called 'Coping With This Together'. During the beginning of the chapter, a distressed Furaha has memories of her godparents' death back in Africa, and asks a reassuring Optimus why people like Prince and Earthia have to leave whilst people in her world keep on living with their immortality. It is then Optimus begins to recite the book's dialogue to her as they wander through various peaceful natural habitats. Optimus, as he talks, proudly watches Furaha climb a tree and try to hunt a rabbit then a mouse. They lie down in a flower field together, then suddenly butterflies surround them, and Furaha tries to chase one - because I've decided Furaha's favourite thing to do is chasing butterflies. In a stormy background, the two watch a large flock of birds fly over them as the wind blows Furaha's fur. They then approach a river, where Furaha tries to catch a fish, much to Optimus' amusement. But Furaha become saddened once again when the two reach the beach and Optimus tells her how long humans live, as far as his human friend Rad (who isn't featured in the story) told him. Optimus then takes Furaha in his arms and whispers to her:
"That is how things are. For plants, for people, for birds, for fish, for animals, even for the tiniest insects - everywhere."
"Everywhere?" asks Furaha.
"Yes. Everywhere." smiles Optimus.
The two then engage in a loving, warm hug whilst tears stream gently from Furaha's eyes, expressing her happiness and joy about living longer because everyone on earth has an immortality spark.

If it were adapted into a movie, then Rosi Golan's 'Lullaby' would be featured as background music.

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Franklin-Themed Stories

I've decided the lovable green turtle Franklin and his adventures would be part of the Little Friends lineup of stories. In each story, one or more of the Little Friends visits Franklin's hometown to share in his adventures and maybe learn something or two. I've even decided to think up a storyline where young Optimus Prime (Octavius) breaks his leg and Jetfire and Scattershot go to visit Franklin to make a home video to cheer up the hospitalized future Autobot leader.

• Franklin's Expedition
• Franklin The Trooper
• Franklin's Go-Cart Race
• Franklin's Valentines
• Franklin's Christmas Gift
• A Friend In Need
• A Magic Christmas
• Franklin & The Swimming Party

Me, You, And...Little Friends: Berry Best You Can Be - Manners Meltdown

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Custard and Pupcake are spending time indoors during the Buggy Ball. Whilst Pupcake has his nose into his dinner, Custard turns on the CD player and spends all her time dancing to the beautiful music that comes out. It seems the two pets are having a ball of their own!

If you're not going to read this lovely story, here's the trailer for the original Strawberry Shortcake film 'Sky's The Limit', the Me, You, And...version I'm going to do sometime soon:

Recapping My Diary

It's been decided: every Sunday, I'll recap my diary entries for this week straight out of it, accompanied by pictures, alongside a picture of my diary every week. I think I made a good choice getting that Winnie The Pooh diary for Christmas last year, as I get to write down what's occurring in each story, and the new ideas that halted what I'm going to do each day, like (spoilers) yesterday when stories related to Me, You, And Transformers: Cybertron's Guess How Much I Love You-War Of The Worlds style. I should've done it in the last few weeks, but whatever. This week, I think this month the pages are accompanied by a picture of Pooh whispering a secret into Eeyore the gloomy donkey's ear.

Worried That CBBC Might Be Causing Epileptic Fits?

I'm extremely worried about CBBC's impact on viewers with epilepsy. You see, CBBC has too much flashing images in their programmes and fast transitions. One of the skits in Diddy TV had flashing images, and I'm worried because all the other CBBC shows, including Scream Street, might incorporate quick, bright, alternating flashes in each of their shows every few seconds, just like in the banned Pokemon episode, 'Electric Soldier Porygon'. If CBBC did an event called 'Can You Make It Through The Week?' it would warn viewers to steer clear away from CBBC due to flashing images all week, because every second throughout the programmes aired, the screen will be brought up by quick flashes of red and blue, like in said Pokemon episode. This flashing might cause an estimated 685 British children to be hospitalized after suffering epileptic seizures - two of which will remain hospitalized for up to two weeks.

It's not just CBBC that's the case - a few years ago, CiTV's former programming block Action Stations had a warning that aired before episodes of Transformers and Yu-Gi-Oh about flashing images, in the case of epileptic viewers. So why can't they have a warning for epileptic viewers before each programme telling them about the flashing images featured in this programme? CBBC, if you're reading this, you've been warned about how you treat your viewers. Some might have epileptic seizures by now, so what if there was a disability-friendly version of CBBC for people who have autism or dyslexia or maybe even epilepsy? It would be great, but then the CBBC logo would be either purple or multiple colours.

If Me, You, And...Were Adapted For Movies & TV, Its Theme Song Would Probably Be This....