Charlie and Lola

Lola is a very fussy eater, she won't eat mushrooms, or peas or fish fingers and she will never ever eat a tomato! Charlie helps her to discover that peas are really green drops from Green Land and mashed potato is cloud fluff from the pointiest peak of Mount Fuji.

Today Lola wants to do everything that's anything all on her own. In the park, Charlie and his friend Marv persuade her that a see saw won't "see" or "saw" with only one person. When the boys get on the other end up goes Lola, high in the sky, where she sees things she could only dream of.

Will Lola ever be sleepy enough to go to bed, Charlie wonders? She drinks pink milk with tigers, cleans her teeth with a lion, shoos whales down the plughole and has a pyjama party with some dancing dogs.

You have to be quiet when you're in a library. But that's very hard for Lola when she can't find her absolutely most favourite book - "Beetles Bugs and Butterflies." Charlie introduces her to books about Dinosaurs and books about Romans and he even takes her into a beautiful Chinese pop-up book.

It's the school play and Lola is determined to be The Sun. She knows the part will be hers because yellow is her favourite colour. She was born to play the sun! Imagine her disappointment when she finds out that she's a leaf. And not only that, she's a boring brown autumn leaf.

Lola and her friend Lotta know everything there is to know about dogs. So they're really pleased when Marv lets them look after his dog Sizzles in the park. They stroke him, they pat him, and they groom him. It's all going well until Sizzles disappears.

Lola simply has to win all of the time. She can run faster than a cheetah, she can bounce higher than a kangaroo and she can stand on one leg for longer than a flamingo. She beats Charlie at snakes and ladders by climbing up a slippery snake. Could this be cheating?

It's that time when Charlie and Lola have to get their haircut. But something's bothering Lola and she doesn't want to tell us what it is. She just wants to keep her hair completely the way it is. Lola wants her hair long so that she can sit on it and look like a princess. Then Charlie wonders if she's scared. Absolutely not! She's not scared of the snippy scissors, of hairdressers ... of anything!

Charlie has promised Marv that he'll play football with him but poor Lola has a very nasty cold and is stuck in bed. She begs Charlie to stay with her. Charlie tries all sorts of ways of making her feel better but a butterfly chase Flutterby Mountain finally does the trick. Will Charlie ever make it to his football match?

Charlie wants Lola to hurry or they'll be late for school. But there are so many exciting things to do on the way that Lola keeps getting distracted. There's colouring, and dancing with clouds, playing hopscotch on musical pavements and giggling with hysterical hedgehogs. Charlie has to come up with a cunning ruse to get his little sister to hurry up... You wouldn't want to miss Dragon Day at school

It's ever so easy for Charlie to make Lola jump. But what Lola wants more than anything is to make Charlie jump. This proves quite tricky. Lola tries everything. She asks her best friend Lotta and Marv to help her make Charlie jump. They try hiding, ghosts and really scary stories. Soon Charlie, too, is longing to jump. Will nothing work?

You can't have a picnic without swirly tennis and boiled eggs and of course sunshine. Lola, Lotta, Charlie and Marv are really excited because they have all of those things. But just as the fun is about to begin, the storm clouds gather. Luckily, Charlie knows how the desert people have picnics indoors and a potential disaster turns into the most wonderful picnic ever.

Charlie wins first prize at school for his fantastic homemade rocket which he made from 10 yoghurt pots and some extra wide tin foil. As he puts his rocket safely away on the top shelf he explains to Lola that the rocket really isn't a toy and she must absolutely promise not to touch it or play with it.

Lola has to keep Charlie's birthday surprise a big secret. And it's really, really hard to keep secrets. To stop Lola from telling him, Charlie decides to try to "guess" the surprise by coming up with the most extraordinary suggestions. Through this he discovers it is old and big and scary.

Granny and Grandpa's house is by the sea where there are pony rides and lovely things to eat, a big dressing up box and Caspar the Cat. But Lola is worried that Soren Lorenson, her imaginary friend, might miss her while she's away. Charlie solves that problem. Then she says she can't go away because Mum and Dad might miss her.

Lola is horrified because she has her first ever wobbly tooth and she does not ever, never want her wobbly tooth to fall out. She doesn't want a big gap in her teeth even if Charlie does say that she'll grow another one which is stronger and better. No, Lola's tooth is absolutely not going to fall out... not until she discovers there a Tooth Fairy!

To please Mum, Lola is determined to stay clean and tidy for her very first school photograph. And Lola's not very good at staying clean and tidy. What makes it even harder to achieve is that there's a water-tray, school lunch and painting class before the school photograph happens. But, as ever, Charlie and Lola find a way of producing a really absolutely very special photo of Lola after all.

Lola likes all sorts of creepy crawlies, she's just not keen on spiders. Charlie tries to show Lola that spiders aren't bad at all, infact they're really quite clever. He shows her that spiders can walk upside down, and build fantastic webs that are bouncy like trampolines.

Snow is on the way and Lola is bursting with excitement. Lola just loves snow. After she finally gets to sleep, she wakes up the next morning to find that everything has gone completely, extremely white! Charlie, Lola, Marv, Sizzles and Lotta have a wonderful time in the park. They make snow angels and have snow races and Lotta and Lola even make a snow dog.

It's Lotta's birthday and of course Lola wants to buy her friend the very best present in the whole wide world. She is over the moon when she finds the very thing... a Doctor's kit! But it's really hard to give your best friend the best present ever when you really, really like the present yourself!

Lola is packing to go to Lotta's for the night. And she is packing everything because her and Lotta are going to play Cinderella! This means that Charlie and Marv can have the whole bedroom to themselves to set up an enormous race track of their own.

Introducing Charlie on clarinet and Marv on keyboards! The boys are presenting a piece all about Outer Space accompanied with music in front of the whole school tomorrow in assembly. Lola is desperate to join in. But it takes a lot of time and hard work to learn how to play an instrument. Lola is not deterred.

Lola simply doesn't have time to play today; she's far too extremely busy organizing her office full of mermaids, running her own café, dentist and library. She's far too busy to play with Charlie, or Lotta, or even her imaginary friend Soren Lorensen. So she couldn't possibly find the time to play Charlie's new card game - Flip Flop.

Life's just not fair when you're always the smaller one... you can't go to bed late, you can't get your own pink milk and you can't go on the Super Dooper Loop the Looper ride at the fair. Lola does everything she can to make herself taller - imagining she's a sunflower, a skyscraper and even the tallest mountain in the world.