Pablo has joined a new school and it’s strange, wild and definitely complicated. From rules that don’t always make sense to chaotic corridors, Pablo is navigating this strange new world one drama at a time, with a little “help” from his book animal friends and a whole lot of imagination. Through art and creativity, Pablo makes sense of the things that feel impossible to untangle, revealing a world that’s funny, heartfelt, and deeply relatable.
Episodes
Pablo hears Clio saying Anne is her best friend and gets into a panic that he is also supposed to have a best friend - an idea that Wren finds appalling.
Pablo finds making eye contact extremely uncomfortable, so he tries to work out a way to get Mr Bird to change his rule about looking at him when he is speaking
As Pablo anticipates his turn to throw a ball in PE, his inner world is thrown into a turmoil of overthinking, impulse control and anxiety.
Pablo is sent on an errand and discovers the quiet peace of the empty hallway, until Tang turns the outing into a search for a mysterious bear on a skateboard.
When Eoin shows Pablo funny videos of a boy called Evan Stephens, Pablo decides to try to be cool and get likes by copying the influencer - with disastrous results!
When it’s too wet to go out in the playground, Pablo and the Book Animals struggle to find a way to survive the chaos of having break time in the classroom.
When Pablo’s apple gets bruised, he can’t decide if it’s okay to eat, so he keeps it for a week while the Book Animals and a wizard try to help him work out what to do.
Pablo loves the peace and quiet of wearing headphones to block out extra noises, but when Eoin says something, he begins to worry that wearing headphones is uncool.
Milo is so happy to find a special magnet that Eoin stops Pablo telling him that it belongs to Eoin. However, Pablo senses Eoin’s sadness and wants to help get his magnet back.
Pablo loves art and is excited by the idea of making a clay pot. But when Mouse sees the clay, she gets freaked out by the texture and doesn’t want Pablo to touch it.
When Pablo gets excited about going to the lake after lunch and seeing ducklings, he is visited by a looping monster and can’t think about anything else at all.
A change in the order of their class presentations leaves Pablo desperate to be fourth again, until he sees Sorcha having a worse time than he is - waiting to be last.
When Mr Bird asks how he is, Pablo explains in detail, but is shocked to discover that he’s not expected to tell the truth, just say, ‘I’m good, thanks, how are you?’
Pablo feels scribbly every time somebody asks him to tie his shoelaces, and even though he really wants to, he can’t do it, until those feelings have passed.
When the bulb in Breadcrumbs’s vivarium fails, Pablo is so concerned that he slips into a semi-dormant state (like a lizard) to conserve energy until order can be restored.
Pablo loves his new jumper like a friend... until it gets wet. Mouse wants to get rid of it. But Wren insists that you can’t just throw away a new friend when they get wet.
When Ms Boyle starts calling children out of the class, Pablo’s imagination runs wild. Are they in trouble? Where are they being taken? And what if he is next?!
The timetable keeps changing, but it turns out Anne is the one struggling with it, not Pablo. Luckily, Pablo is an expert at being anxious about unexpected changes.
When Pablo notices that his socks are fluffy side out and Ben’s are fluffy side in, it sets Draff off on a quest to work out the right and wrong ways to use many things.
Pablo can’t find the right time to share his animal facts, but when his inner world fills up with wild animals, he discovers that not sharing them is a problem too.
