The Smallest Friend: A Story About Unexpected Friendship

The Smallest Friend: A Story About Unexpected Friendship

Ollie sets off alone through the fern forest on a warm summer afternoon with a simple errand, to find Papa Trix's walking stick by the boot rock down in Fern Valley. He finds the stick easily, but on his way back he hears a tiny cheep from the shadow of a giant fern, and out steps the smallest Compsognathus he has ever seen, the same quick little creature who once shared a marshmallow with him by a campfire. Ollie tries everything to send the little dinosaur back to its family, even racing it up the path, but it simply will not leave his side. Back home, Mama Trix makes one thing clear: if the small friend stays, he stays because Ollie takes care of him. Ollie names him Twig, and learns that some of the best friendships aren't the ones you plan for, they're the ones that find you and refuse to let go. Stick around for Ollie's Dinosaur Fact about Compsognathus, one of the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived, a fast, sharp-eyed, possibly feathered hunter whose fossils were found in what is now France and Germany.

The Big Brother: A Story About Patience

It's the first morning of summer break, and Ollie has a whole list of big-kid adventures planned with Spike and Dash, a bike trail, a swimming hole, and a log fort in the fern field. His enthusiastic little sister Tilly wants to come too, and when she has to turn back at the fork in the path, she presses her best pine cone into his hooves so he'll have good luck on the trail. Back home that afternoon, Ollie's patience wears thin when Tilly stops to study every ant and watering can in the garden, until Mama Trix shares a story about a much younger Ollie who once held up a whole supermarket walkway to watch a caterpillar. With a quiet apology and a brand-new idea called a "little feet venture," Ollie discovers that slow, close-up adventures, naming a spiderweb spider Buttons and meeting a very dignified frog named Big, can be just as wonderful as the fast ones. Stick around for Ollie's Dinosaur Fact about Maiasaura, the "good mother" dinosaur discovered by paleontologist Jack Horner in 1979, who cared for her babies right in the nest, just like a bird.

The Last Day of School: A Story About Growing Up

It's the last day at Cretaceous Creek Elementary, and Ollie stands outside the same sandstone walls and big welcoming door he first saw with butterflies in his tummy a whole year ago. In Room Three, Mrs. Terry hands out a leafy yearbook and asks everyone to share a favorite memory, from Tank's coolest rocks to Penny's nervous first day to a wonderfully muddy playground build. When it's Ollie's turn, he realizes he cannot pick just one, because his favorite thing about the whole year was learning that the best adventures are the ones you share. At a school-wide assembly, the principal surprises Ollie with the Heart of Cretaceous Creek Award, and as the final bell rings, six very different dinosaur friends promise to spend the whole summer adventuring together. A warm Season 1 finale about growing up, gratitude, and friends who feel like family. Stick around for Ollie's Dinosaur Fact about how Triceratops was one of the very last dinosaurs to walk the Earth, and how every bird you see today is a living dinosaur.

Camping with Dad: A Story About Family Traditions

Ollie and Papa Trix head off for a long-awaited camping trip in Fern Valley, just the two of them. After a hike through the deepest fern forest, they pitch a wonderfully lopsided tent, strike sparks with flint to start their first fire together, and roast marshmallows under a darkening sky. Papa Trix shares memories of camping in this very valley with his own dad, and together they name the stars, including a brand-new Triceratops constellation that will belong to their family forever. When a curious little family of Compsognathus drops by in the night, Ollie discovers that the best traditions are the ones we make and share. Stick around for Ollie's Dinosaur Fact about Haplocheirus and Shuvuuia, two dinosaurs that ruled the night with super-vision and super-hearing.

The Talent Show: A Story About Finding Your Gifts

The very first Cretaceous Creek Elementary Talent Show is coming, and Ollie's friends each know exactly what they'll do. Dash will run, Spike will balance berries on his back plates, Bree will sing, and Penny will play music with her crest. But Ollie can't find his talent. Singing sounds like rocks in a tin can. Dancing wakes the family of Compsognathus living under the porch. Juggling cycad fruits ends with one bouncing right off his horn and another straight to his eye. It takes a quiet word from Tank, the Ankylosaurus of few words but the right ones, for Ollie to discover the talent he's had all along. He has a knack for making other people shine. Stick around for Ollie's Dinosaur Fact about why the Triceratops frill might have been more than just a shield.