Tippe

Nevertheless, the boys on the square won’t let her play soccer, because she’s a girl. Luckily, Tippe meets the new kid on the block, Wander, and they become friends.

Wander, who is more down-to-earth, isn’t surprised at all by Tippe’ s ideas and way of thinking. Together they make a powerful duo, capable of standing up to the world.

Tippe’ s resourcefulness and imagination are key ingredients for exciting adventures, but they also get them in plenty of trouble and t en it’s Wander’s clear-headed courage that saves the day. The friendship between Wander and Tippe is always at the core of the story: how they survive their adventures through friendship and how the friendship endures even though they have very different personalities.

Tippe wakes up and sees that her stuffed animal, Raisin, is not in his usual spot on the bed. Tippe believes that Raisin gets out of bed at night to party with the other stuffed animals. Jana and Nena say that it’s impossible, because he’s not a living being. She looks under the bed and there is Raisin, stuck behind the bed with all the other junk. When she tries to pry him loose, she hears something rip and is startled to see that Raisin has a rip in his belly and the stuffing is bulging out.

Tippe puts a Band-Aid on Raisin’s torn belly. She puts on her favorite pair of pants and she goes outside to play with her scooter. As she hurries around a corner, she slams into a little boy on a tricycle. Tippe has never seen the boy before; the boy says that his name is Wander and that he just moved here.

Tippe is standing in front of the mirror and is looking down her throat trying to figure out where her voice comes from. As usual, Jana and Nena think she’s being weird. Back in the kitchen, Tippe asks her dad how you can put food in your mouth when it’s filled with words. Dad’s not paying attention and doesn’t understand what she talking about. Jana and Nena think it’s a stupid question and they also think that her sandwich with chocolate paste, tomatoes and fruit sprinkles is incredibly gross. Tippe is sick and tired of it all and decides to run away. She asks Wander if he wants to come with her. But after a while it gets boring; they don’t really know what runaways do except run away. So they decide to go back home, but they’ve lost their way. Tippe is worried, but she tries to hide it from Wander.

Tippe is trying to make a ball roll through mind control: “Roll!” But nothing happens. When she blows on it, it does move. It rolls off the table and down the stairs. “It rolls downstairs all by itself”. Mom tells her to go play outside. Wander comes by with a cookie he got from the lady next door. Tippe wants a cookie too, so she comes up with a plan. She decides to play a ball game called Stand in the Basket and ‘accidentally’ throws the ball over the fence. The lady next door lets her in after hearing that she’s come to pick up her ball. Tippe sees the delicious cookies in her kitchen, but is too polite to ask for one. Luckily the lady gives her one. The lady next door tells her she learned to bake cookies when she herself was a little girl. The next-door neighbour gives Tippe a whole tray-full of cookies to take home.

Tippe collects all kinds of things she thinks are pretty: bits of shiny paper she finds on the sidewalk, twigs, smooth pebbles. She keeps all those things in her room. But her mother thinks her room is a mess and tells her to clean her room and throw away all that junk. Tippe doesn’t want to and runs off to Wander’s house. Wander’s room is also a mess, but his mother doesn’t make him clean it up. Wander tells her that she can come and live here; that way she’ll never have to clean up her room. Tippe calls home to ask if she can stay for dinner and spend the night at Wander’s house. Mom says it’s OK, but wants Tippe to come home and get her sleepover things. She puts her stuff in a bag and decides to take all her treasures with her – you never know what you might need. Dad, Mom, Jana and Nena say good-bye to Tippe, who leaves with her bag and with Raisin. But she doesn’t really want to sleep over any more; she’s sure she’s going to be homesick. She doesn’t know how to tell Wander, who’s waiting for her. She tells him she can’t spend the night, because Raisin will get very homesick. Wander finds a solution: he’ll spend the night at Tippe’s.

Tippe has bought another Walking Stick insect, so the one she has, Stick, won’t be lonely. She looks at the two Walking Sticks with Wander, but they don’t do anything so they decide to go play Hide & Seek. Tippe hides in the closet and waits. She calls out to Wander, but he doesn’t come. She pushes the door open but where is Wander? She gets really angry when she sees that he’s happily playing with Jana and Nena. “You were supposed to come looking for me” she yells. But Wander had forgotten. Wander is very sad and goes home; now Tippe really doesn’t know what to do. She goes outside and pretends to be playing, but actually she’s hoping Wander will come out to play. When Wander appears he goes off to play with the big boys. Tippe goes home.Mom tells Tippe that she should make up with Wander. But Tippe doesn’t know how. Jana and Nena help her: she should give Wander a present and apologize for being mean to him. Then Tippe notices that the Walking Sticks have laid eggs and decides to give them to Wander. Jana and Nena think that’s even more stupid, but Wander is very happy with his insect eggs and ask Tippe to come over to watch the eggs hatch.