Willa's Wild Life

Willa’s usually gloomy friend Evelyn gets a new pet spider and cheers right up... until the little spider hitches a ride home in Willa’s backpack and doesn’t want to leave Willa and her happy critter family. Willa has to help Evelyn bond with her new eight-legged pet.

Willa’s enthusiasm for her favourite winter sport, Silly Skating, is dampened when snooty Sara shows up and wows everyone with her figure skating prowess. Willa’s determined to be an ice queen, using the penguins as skate coaches.

Thinking they’ve injured Sara, Willa and her animals wait hand and foot on the cool chicks. But when Tiny discovers Sara is faking, Willa looks for ways to trick Sara into revealing her lie.

When Dad has to go to work on a Saturday, he asks Ms. Vanderwinkle to keep an eye on Willa. Willa and the girl animals have a great time with the nice neighbour lady, but Gus convinces the male animals that they’ve been “left out” and must form an exclusive boys only club.

Dooley invites Willa for her first sleepover. It’s also the first time the animals have tried to go to sleep without Willa. The Willa-sick animals can’t resist sneaking over to join her in Dooley’s room in the middle of the night.

When Dad books a plane trip to visit Grandma Birdy, Tiny and Lou worry about how far away Willa will be from them. So the nervous pachyderms try to convince Willa that her first airplane flight won’t be the rollicking fun time she thinks it will be.

When Dad wakes up with a cold, Willa decides to take charge and help her Dad get well. But when her animals pitch in to help, Nurse Willa winds up with more headaches than poor Dad.

When Sara, Kara and Lara see Dooley innocently giving Willa some flowers, the three cool girls tease them about being boyfriend and girlfriend. Willa’s unfazed, but Dooley’s so embarrassed he doesn’t want to play with Willa any more.

Dad finds out that he may have a poem published, but asks Willa not to tell people. However, Willa leaks the news to Dooley, then can’t stop the word from spreading.

Inspired by a school health lecture and worried about Dad’s tight fitting sweater, Willa becomes Dad’s personal trainer. She’s determined to get him into shape. But when she enlists her animals to help, Willa discovers that it’s best to let Dad get healthy on his own terms – and now she needs to practice what she’s been preaching.

To improve his soccer skills, Dooley joins Willa’s dance class, but dancing is not as easy as he thought.

After an argument, Steve and Edie break up the act. Steve’s new partner Samuel becomes an unbearable showbizzy bore. It’s up to Willa to get the stubborn seals back together.

When Willa wins a trophy at school for having the sunniest disposition, she decides to give awards to each of her animals so they’ll feel good about themselves too. Unfortunately, in planning her big award gala, she forgets about Gus. Willa has to come up with the best award yet to mend fences with her extra grumpy gator.

Just before a ski trip that Dad was looking forward to, Willa hurts her ankle. So that Dad won’t cancel his long-delayed vacation, Willa hides her injury from him.

Inky, Blinky and Bob transform the attic into a winter wonderland. But when other penguins make a mess of the place, our trio realizes who their real friends are.

When Sara gets a little too bossy, Kara and Lara decide they’d rather play with Willa, who finds herself the new leader of the cool girl clique. Willa has to find a way to get Sara back together with her old friends.

Willa and Dad want to have some father-daughter time together, but the insecure animals don’t to want give up Willa and try to keep her home.

For a school sponsored Career Day, Willa spends a day in the veterinarian’s office. But in trying to impress the vet, Willa makes a mess of the office.

When Mr. Tremble comes to the house, Willa and the animals whisk the naturally-nervous Tremble around, doing things Willa thinks are fun -- without considering what he likes.

Willa tries outrageous ways to grow faster, so she can be tall enough for a special amusement park ride. Meanwhile, Evelyn tries to stop her own constant growth.

After a soothing slumber, Bert is wide awake... day and night, and his all-through-the-night dance parties and house cleaning are keeping everyone awake.

To learn about Gus’s extra grumpy behaviour, Willa borrows Dooley’s gator costume to see the world through Gus’s cranky eyes.

When Wallace the blowhard Walrus tells one fantastic tale too many, he has to beg Willa to help him prove that his story of buried pirate treasure is true. Willa helps her fibbing friend “just this once” but winds up creating a tall-tale telling monster.

Grouchy Gus the alligator can’t get rid of a little blue bunny who wants to be his friend.

As Willa tries to set a world record, the animals recall some of Willa’s wild adventures.