In this telling of the late 19th century British fairy tale, the wolf is bad but not big.

Dixieland is left in the dark because Mister Sun has overslept. It's up to Dixi to go and wake him up. The vocabulary review features third person verbs in the passato remoto tense.

Dixi toys with the idea of being a bear. That's before he realizes that it would mean missing out on his daily breakfast cookies.

La luna di traverso (the moon on its side) is a way of saying "bad mood." Dixi got up on the wrong side of the bed, but being a magical little elephant, he has the actual sidelong moon on his hands. What to do?

Dixi needs to tinkle and Tribo works some fun magic to give Dixi the space and time he needs.

Dixi and his friends play hide-and-seek. To decide whose turn it is, Tribo recites the Italian equivalent to "eenie, meenie, miny, moe."

Dixi, with a little help from his friends, learns how to ride his bicycle without using the training wheels.

Dixi goes to a party to celebrate spring, where his hungry little tummy gets plenty of attention. In Italian, a hungry tummy growls, using the verb "brontolare." Both a "growl" and a "brontolio" are onomatopoeic.

The Dixieland airborne emergency squad rescues a comet and Dixi receives a wonderful ride through the sky as thanks.

Dixi and his friends compete in an art competition using the colors of the rainbow. The prize is a mouth-watering Chocolate Trophy.

Dixi gets himself in another pickle, but Tribo comes to the rescue with a very simple solution to the problem of retrieving breakfast biscuits from the dark basement pantry.

Dixi gets a bad case of the hiccups, but Tribo has a tried-and-true remedy. Attenzione! In Italian, hiccups appear in the singular: il singhiozzo!

Dixi meets Cumo, a flying piglet, in the cloudy sky. At first he worries, but then enjoys it.

Dixi is a sweet little flying elephant who faces his adventures with optimism and innocence. It's party time.

In fairy tales, good triumphs over evil in the end. This one's no exception.