‐ Places!
‐ Time for an early‐morning perimeter check.
Ah‐ha!
Back where you belong.
Coral? What are you doing on land?
There you go, Glo.
‐ Another hoof massage?
Okay, Kate, if you say so.
That tickles!
‐ Another day in perfect order.
‐ Stop! Look before you jump rope!
If I hadn't missed my morning feedbag, I would have totally caught up with her!
Caught up with who, Ranger? ‐ That rope jumper.
I've been chasing her all the way from Central Park Pond.
She broke rule 52, "no jumping rope on the flower beds."
‐ There's a rule about jumping rope in the flowers?
Wait…
Did I miss that picture on the handbook?
‐ It's not a picture, it's a sentence. You have to read it.
‐ Right, totally.
I love reading all those words under the pictures.
‐ Well, I'll better be off to do my morning rounds.
Happy reading!
And remember, rule number one, "books are for reading, not eating."
‐ "A loud ca‐caw echoed through the moonlight,
and the hair on Penny Paddock's mane stood straight up.
She clip‐clopped slowly through the barn.
Clip, clop, clip, clop".
‐ This is getting good!
‐ I can't take the suspense much longer!
‐ "But when Penny stopped at the last stall, it was locked!
With only a horseshoe and a hair pin, she picked the lock open.
And what she saw…"
‐ What did she see?
‐ "…would change everything."
And that's the end of book one in the Mustang Mysteries series!
‐ It's over already?
‐ Now, don't worry everyone. Book two is in my office,
all ready to go for next month's Wild Kids Book Club meeting.
Besides, I read the first few pages and that cliffhanger is worth the wait!
Oh, my goodness!
It's time to wake up the baby hedgehogs. Why don't you all be my helpers?
They are extra adorable when they're sleepy.
‐ I can't believe we have to wait another month to hear book two!
‐ You're telling me!
With so many twists and turns, who knows what'll happen next?
‐ I bet we could figure out the ending to the story.
We're Penny Paddock's biggest fans!
‐ You're right, Melman!
Okay, fan theory, Penny opens the door to find
fellow Mustang Mystery club member, Seymour Stallion!
‐ Yeah! And Seymour tells Penny that he plans to solve the mystery first,
so he grabs the clue from the barn stall and leaps out the barn window!
‐ But then Penny makes a rope
with her first prize blue ribbons and ye‐haw!
She lassos the clue!
She's the bravest.
What do you think, Marty?
‐ Hey! No basketballs flying over visitors' heads!
That's rule number 62!
‐ It is? ‐ It is, what?
‐ It is time for a ranger horse handbook break.
I'll be right back.
‐ Suit yourself.
You'll neigh‐ver beat me, Penny!
‐ Okay, reading time. How hard can this be?
"Ranger horses must wear san… sandals?"
Sandals? That can't be right. We don't even have toes!
"Ranger hats help block the suh… suh… sub…?"
This makes no sense! What am I doing wrong?
‐ You won't solve this one without me, Seymour!
‐ That's what you think, Penny!
‐ I'll help you, Penny! Go, trusty lasso!
‐ Let's play again! I want to be Penny this time.
‐ Then you'll need this!
‐ That looks just like Penny's magnifying glass
on the book cover!
‐ Mustang Marty!
Look what we hath uncovered! ‐ Huh?
‐ He means look what was in the Lost and Found!
‐ Oh, super cool.
‐ What're you looking at in the Ranger horse handbook, Marty?
‐ Oh, I was just trying to read this‐‐ Oh!
‐ You can read?
‐ I knew you'd be the first one of us to read.
Way to go, main mammal!
‐ You're my hero! ‐ This is amazing, Marty!
‐ I wouldn't say amazing exactly…
‐ It's even better than amazing!
Now we don't have to wait a month to hear what happens to Penny!
‐ You're right! Marty can read us book two right now!
‐ This is the best news ever! The suspense is over!
‐ Let's grab book two from Kate's office!
‐ You want me to read right now? Maybe we should wait…
What?
‐ That would be even worse than waiting for garbage day.
‐ Okay, okay. I'll go get it.
‐ He can read! He can read!
‐ Let's see what we're working with.
These words are big! I… I can't read any of this!
‐ Book two's just the beginning. There are 20 Mustang Mystery books.
Marty can read them all to us!
‐ I can?
No. I most definitely can… not.
‐ Rad!
‐ Sorry, gang, book two is not in Kate's office.
Guess it's another mystery only Penny Paddock can solve!
It came right out of the sky!
‐ Maybe Carlos borrowed it?
‐ Why would he do something like that? Kate's not a library!
‐ Melman, you're a genius mystery solver!
All we have to do is go to the library before it closes and check out book two.
Then Marty can read it to us before bedtime tonight!
‐ Case closed! We're going to the library!
‐ And all I have to do is learn to read by bedtime.
Case most definitely not closed.
‐ Pickles, Dave!
We're headed to the library to grab book two
in the Mustang Mysteries series.
‐ Mustang, shmustang. We need a favor.
Dave has been flying through the classics.
‐ What exactly are the classics?
‐ A Tale of Two Chimps, Banana in the Rye, Apes of Wrath.
Books without chimps just aren't worth our time.
‐ Can't read what it says, but it sure looks ambitious.
‐ Bring us back everything on Dave's reading list
and we've got a deal.
‐ You got it!
‐ Woo‐hoo! ‐ Yay!
‐ Dave's already an expert level reader and he's still in diapers!
‐ C'mon, Marty! Book two won't read itself!
‐ I wish it would…
‐ What is it, Murray?
‐ This book makes me feel like I'm really on that rocket!
‐ The author is a genius.
‐ We should see if the library has all the Mustang Mystery books
so Marty can read them to us!
‐ But we don't have disguises!
Hey, Joe! Grab me one of those empty boxes!
Or do we?
I can't see anything!
Anybody else having trouble seeing in these boxes?
Not me, I see perfectly.
Come on, Marty, the library is just around the corner.
‐ Yeah, but… the movie theater is closer.
Maybe we should go see a movie instead!
- Huh? - Nah!
I have a strict 'no screen time before bed' rule.
Baseball game?
Baseball season is months away.
Besides, the Mustang Mystery Club neigh‐ver leaves a problem unsolved!
‐ Right. Neigh‐ver.
Lots of humans and no disguises. Guess we should just head back!
‐ Wait… over there!
‐ We can grab those Penny Paddock dress‐up hats!
‐ Nothing like the perfect piece to complete your look.
‐ Yeah. Perfect.
‐ Hmm, let's see…
Oh, check this out!
Hey, Marty, what's the title say?
‐ Huh? Uh…
Uh…
It says, "Don't Quit Your Day 100 reasons to give up on acting."
‐ Yeesh! That one's going back on the shelf.
‐ Ooh!
Wow, books really can come to life!
‐ I don't think that was a book, Melman.
‐ "The brave knight lifted her magical sw…
swooo…"
I can't do it! This book is too hard!
You always know how to cheer me up. Okay, I'll keep trying.
"The brave knight lifted her magical…
sw… sword!"
Thanks, Waffles!
Paw bump!
Woah!
‐ Pretty soon that'll be you reading to us, Marty!
‐ Yup. I'm a real bookworm‐zebra.
‐ You sure are.
First Mustang Mysteries, then the whole library!
‐ Come on!
‐ Where is the mystery section, anyway?
These aisles must have signs you can read.
‐ Uh, wait, did you hear that?
I think I heard someone inside the library
using an outside voice, which is against the rules.
‐ Want me to shush 'em?
‐ No, no. I'll check it out while you three grab the book.
Look in the kids' corner.
‐ We're on it!
‐ Now to solve the mystery of the zebra who can't read.
"Bees help flowers puh… puh… punctuate?"
Come on, Marty!
‐ Couldn't do it without ya, Waffles.
See ya next week!
‐ That's it!
Maybe I need some of that puppy power, too.
Psst! Psst! Over here!
‐ Oh! I've never met a therapy zebra before!
‐ Oh, I'm not a therapy zebra.
‐ Your stripes are still nice. Very stripey.
I think I have a stripe on my tail, but I can never reach it.
Oh, I'll get it later. Hi! I'm Waffles. What's your name?
‐ I'm Marty. I saw you helping those kids read
and I was wondering, if you're not too busy,
maybe you could help me learn to read, too.
‐ Say no more, Marty!
Go ahead, read to me!
‐ No, I need you to teach me how to read. Like you taught those kids.
‐ Oh, you mean Liam and Alana?
It took them months to get that good!
Besides, I don't know how to read. I'm just an excellent listener!
‐ I don't have months, Waffles!
I told my friends I would read to them tonight.
What am I gonna do?
‐ You could go for a walk, play fetch, take a snoozle!
Oh, you mean about your friends! Yeah, I have no idea.
It's okay, Marty! We'll think of something.
I'm very good at pep talks. I call 'em "pup talks".
Marty! We found the book!
‐ They're done already? Oh, no! I'll be right back.
‐ You got it!
‐ Hiya, Marty! ‐ While you were searching the library,
we found the book and the rest of Dave's reading list!
‐ How did you read the list?
‐ We just grabbed everything with a chimp on the cover.
‐ Right.
I just wanted to do one more lap.
I saw someone lick their hand before turning a page,
classic sanitation violation.
I'll meet you outside in a minute.
‐ Great, then I'll practice my counting! See you in 60 seconds!
One…
two…
three…
That one's a keeper.
‐ Waffles, toss me a dictionary, maybe I can get in a few words‐‐
The library is now closing.
Please make your way toward the exit.
‐ Closing? But I still haven't learned how to read!
Can't they wait five more minutes?
‐ 59…
one minute!
Ready or not, here comes Marty!
‐ Either Marty's furrier than I remember, or that's not our zebra.
‐ One, two, three… Hang on there, not so fast!
Five, six, seven! That's everyone!
Let's go home.
‐ Hurry up, Marty!
I'm ready to sink my teeth into this book.
‐ Alex, books are not for biting! You can snack at home.
‐ What the… It's locked?
Gloria, Alex, Melman! Can you hear me?
‐ Marty! It's a little hard to hear you! What are you doing in there?
‐ I got locked inside with Waffles!
‐ Waffles? Marty has snacks!
‐ Oh, now I'm hungry too!
‐ No, Melman, Waffles is a therapy dog
and we're both locked inside the library!
Can you help us get out?
‐ The Little Wild Mustangs are reporting for duty!
You'll be outta there in no time!
‐ Stuck in the library with all these books!
What should we do?
‐ All these books… Get your best pup talk ready, Waffles!
I've got the need to read!
‐ Hmm…
‐ What are we looking for, Alex?
‐ Remember chapter seven when Penny Paddock found
a secret passageway into the barn?
Maybe we can find something that unlocks a passageway into the library!
‐ Good thinking, Mustang Alex!
‐ Here, secret passageway!
Nice secret passageway! Come to‐‐
‐ I'm reading here!
‐ Oops, sorry.
‐ Here goes nothing.
‐ You got this!
Just take a breath and imagine the words coming to life.
‐ Coming to life…
"Goldilocks walked into a small house.
She picked up a bowl of por… por… porcupines?"
‐ Aww, I love porcupines!
So piney.
‐ Here's one.
"Jack and Jill went up to the hill
to fetch a pail of wa… wa… waiter?
That makes no sense!
‐ Keep going, Marty!
I've never heard stories like these before.
Hey, Gloria, what's all this stuff?
‐ Penny always uses whatever she finds to make handy gadgets.
One of these things has got to help us bust into the library!
‐ Oh! These can turn into Penny's lasso!
‐ You're right! Let's see…
‐ Those kind of look like the key Penny made in chapter two
when she escaped the haunted hay ride!
‐ Good thinking, Melman!
Penny's homemade key unlocks any door!
‐ I don't remember Penny's key snapping in half.
‐ Oh… I'm not getting any of this. ‐ You can do it, Marty!
It's like I say, just because I haven't caught my tail yet,
doesn't mean I won't!
With a bit of practice, we'll both succeed!
‐ Thanks, Waffles.
"This is the story of the three little… wigs?"
‐ Sounds adorable!
‐ That's not right. Ugh!
If I can't read now, I'll never learn to read!
ELECTRONIC System activated.
Is this part of the story?
‐ Read between the lines, Waffles. This story's not going to end well.
Waffles, you're the library expert. Any pup talks to get us out of here?
‐ Well, I don't have any cheers for avoiding lasers,
but I have seen the librarian lock up the library
after reading a really big book. Does that help?
‐ A really big book?
That must be the instruction manual. But it could be anywhere!
‐ Not just any book.
That book!
‐ Then what are we waiting for? Let's move.
I'm going to need a boost.
Think you can fetch something to help me up?
‐ Fetch? I thought you'd never ask!
‐ Nice job, Waffles! Now I'll just climb on up there.
‐ Easy does it…
nice lasers…
Oh, yeah!
Huh?
‐ Oh! Marty! ELECTRONIC Motion detected.
If alarm deactivation does not occur in two minutes,
library personnel will be alerted.
‐ We need to get out of here! What's the instruction manual say?
I can't read this!
‐ Maybe not yet, but you will.
‐ You can do it!
‐ Thanks, Waffles. That may have been your best pup talk yet!
ELECTRONIC 10 seconds remaining until library personnel are alerted. 10…
‐ "To turn off the alarm, locate the con… control panel."
‐ On it! Ready! ELECTRONIC Seven…
‐ "Press the gre… gre… greasy button?"
That doesn't make any‐‐ ‐ Keep trying, Marty!
One word at a time, remember? ELECTRONIC Four…
‐ Oh, right. ELECTRONIC Three…
‐ "Press the gre… green, the green button"!
ELECTRONIC One… Alarm deactivated.
‐ You did it, Marty!
‐ Thanks for believing in me, Waffles. But…
what if my friends are disappointed that I'm not an expert reader yet?
‐ They're your friends, Marty. They believe in you, just like I do.
‐ Stop!
Melman, what are you doing with that bat?
‐ I wasn't going to let you stay in the library forever!
‐ Think you can start reading book two before we head home?
‐ About that, I have something I have to tell you.
Learning to read has been really hard for me,
and the Mustang Mystery books are so big.
You all got so excited for me to read to you,
and I didn't want to let you down,
so I asked Waffles to help me learn to read in one night.
That's when we got locked inside.
‐ In one night? ‐ Nobody can learn to read in one night!
Hold up. How did you get out of the library?
‐ Marty read the instructions to turn off the alarm!
‐ So you can read!
‐ It was just a few little words.
But with practice, I'll be an expert reader in no time!
‐ Big words or small, I'm really proud of you, main mammal.
We better get home before Kate realizes we're gone.
‐ I should get home too, except…
I'm not sure which way to go.
‐ I bet we can find out!
"E, easy… East!
East 65th Street".
That's not far from the Habitat!
‐ Yeah!
"Penny breathed a sigh of relief.
It was the missing foal from the farm down the st… street."
Now that we got that out of the way,
I thought we could read some important Ranger Horse Material.
‐ Ranger Horse Material?
I think I'm going to go check out the chimps' bedtime story instead.
‐ Hang on, this is a solid bedtime book!
‐ He's right. It'll definitely put us to sleep.
"Section 12, paragraph 5…"