THE JUMBLIES
Join the Jumblies as they set sail in a sieve in Edward Lear’s classic nonsense rhyme.
Sam McPhillips’ unique illustration style perfectly captures the antics of the intrepid adventurers! Written by Edward Lear Illustrated by Sam McPhillips
LEAR / McPHILLIPS
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Published by Top That! Publishing plc Tide Mill Way, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1AP, UK www.topthatpublishing.com Copyright © 2013 Top That! Publishing plc All rights reserved 0246897531 Printed and bound in China Creative Director – Simon Couchman Editorial Director – Daniel Graham Illustrated by Sam McPhillips Written by Edward Lear All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Neither this book nor any part or any of the illustrations, photographs or reproductions contained in it shall be sold or disposed of otherwise than as a complete book, and any unauthorised sale of such part illustration, photograph or reproduction shall be deemed to be a breach of the publisher’s copyright. ISBN 978-1-78244-064-2 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed and bound in China
‘For my Mum and Dad, Silkiesue and Robert too x’ Sam McPhillips
They went to sea in a sieve, they did, In a sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a sieve they went to sea!
And when the sieve turned round and round, And everyone cried, 'You'll all be drowned!' They called aloud, 'Our sieve ain't big, But we don't care a button! We don't care a fig! In a sieve we'll go to sea!'
fe Far and w, far and f ew,
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They sailed away in a sieve, they did, In a sieve they sailed so fast, With only a beautiful pea-green veil Tied with a ribbon by way of a sail, To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And everyone said, who saw them go, 'O won't they soon be upset, you know! For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long, And happen what may, it's extremely wrong In a sieve to sail so fast!'
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The water it soon came in, it did, The water it soon came in. So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet In a pinky paper all folded neat, And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery jar, And each of them said, 'How wise we are! Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long, Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong, While round in our sieve we spin!'
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And all night long they sailed away; And when the sun went down, They whistled and warbled a moony song To the echoing sound of a coppery gong, In the shade of the mountains brown.
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‘O Timballo! How happy we are, When we live in a sieve and a crockery jar, And all night long in the moonlight pale, We sail away with a pea-green sail, In the shade of the mountains brown!’
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. e v went to sea in a s ie
They sailed to the Western Sea, they did, To a land all covered in trees, And they bought an owl, and a useful cart, And a pound of rice, and a cranberry tart, And a hive of silvery bees. And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws, And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, ew,offaStilton d fend r anno r and cheese. FaAnd fe
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And in twenty years they all came back, In twenty years or more, And everyone said, 'How tall they've grown! For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, And the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And everyone said, 'If we only live, We too will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
F ar an d few, far and few, Are the lands w h e re t he Jumblies live, e, Their heads are gree u l b n, and th hands are ei r y w e e h n t t d t o sea i An n a sieve.
Jumbabies
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THE JUMBLIES
Join the Jumblies as they set sail in a sieve in Edward Lear’s classic nonsense rhyme.
Sam McPhillips’ unique illustration style perfectly captures the antics of the intrepid adventurers! Written by Edward Lear Illustrated by Sam McPhillips
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