Zou in English

As a surprise for Mum on Mother’s Day, Zou and Grandma bake a cake. Dad returns from work and starts to eat it, so Zou has to quickly bake another.

Zou and Elzee borrow a tent from Grandpa and set it up in the garden. Zou’s and Elzee’s imaginations run riot when they think they hear wild animals outside the tent

When Zou is asked to stop making so much noise and to tidy his room, he decides there are a few too many rules in his house. He’s going to leave home.

When Zou decides he wants to be King of the Household, Grandpa helps him to source the various items he needs for his regalia. But he soon finds that being King is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Zou decides he wants to be a postman and, at first is most helpful delivering items for members of his family. But when he gets a little over-confident, the various packages are delivered to the wrong addresses.

Zou has been watching his favourite (cartoon) detective show on T.V. and decides he’s going to be a detective. His first case is the Mystery of Nanna’s Missing False Teeth.

Zou’s Mum asks Zou to clear out some toys he has grown out of. Zou finds his old teething ring, which, rather than throw away, Mum seems keen to keep as a memento of Zou’s babyhood.

Zou wants to be a mountaineer when he grows up. He and Grandpa find some makeshift climbing equipment in the garage and climb to the top of the house – via the staircase.

Zou is working on a project at school and decides he needs some photographs to illustrate it. He borrows the family camera, promising to take very good care of it.

Zou decides he wants a pet – and ends up with an army of ants! The ants cause more than a little trouble in the house when they get loose, but Poc is on hand to deal with them.

Zou receives a drum for his birthday – and drives everyone to distraction by playing on it.

Zou has been asked to look after the class sunflower during the school holidays. But when eventually he returns to the garden to check up on the sunflower, he finds her head is drooping. Oh no!

Zou and Elzee decide to go on a trip to the moon, but when their spaceship (well, cardboard box covered in tin foil) loses one of its ‘engines’ they land on a mysterious planet.

There’s to be an art competition in the park and Zou wants to enter. He paints a picture, only to find that Zinnia has done a painting too.

Zou is intrigued with Grandpa’s newspaper, decides that he’d like to be a reporter on his own newspaper – the Daily Zou.

Poc is not looking well. Zou says he needs to go to the doctor. Poc, being more than unwilling to subject himself to the ministrations of the health service, hides.

Zou and his Dad are doing some gardening when birds eat the vegetable seeds they were planting. Grandpa suggests making a scarecrow.

Zou, Elzee (and Zinnia) were due to go to play in the park – but the weather precludes this excursion. So Grandpa suggests a toffee-apple hunt.

Zou and Elzee are doing some painting with Grandpa in the kitchen. When Elzee spots a rainbow out of the window and Grandpa explains that a rainbow usually has a crock of gold at the end, Zou and Elzee want to go and find it.

Zou decides to make promises to everybody, including helping Dad wash the car; playing with Elzee in her garden, and helping Grandma sort her collection of cake tins.

When Zou discovers Grandpa’s old walkie talkie while they are clearing out the garage together, Grandpa says that Zou can play with it.

Zou is making a cherry pie – with some help from Grandma. It’s to be entered in a bake-off competition at Mr. Zoey’s.

Zou wants to be a superhero, so dins a cape and finds a few tools to help him in his self-imposed task. But his attempts at being a super-hero are not too successful!

Zinnia says she’s going to win a dance competition in the park later in the week. Zou finds that he has inadvertently agreed to take part in the competition too. But it all turns out for the best when he teams up with Elzee.

When Zou sees a conjuror/illusionist at a local theatre he decides he’d like to be a magician too.