Guest Post-Palooza-The Owl and the Pussycat

 

As a part of the Flannel Friday is four celebration, I am guest hosting Jane's post below. 

 

The Owl and the Pussycat—According to Wikipedia, “is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published during 1871 as part of his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets. This poem I memorized in my youth so it became one of my first flannel graphs, (patterns are from The Flannel Board Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra, 2nd edition). I use an owl, cat, boat, island with tree, pig, turkey, moon, guitar, and a gold ring, as accessories. (I used a small hoop earring, with a little Velcro, for the gold ring. It makes for easy removal). There are several versions of this poem on YouTube.

 

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea     (place owl and cat in boat)

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,             (add guitar)

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are,

You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!"  

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!

How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! Too long we have tarried:

But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

To the land where the Bong-Tree grows     (add island with tree, remove boat)

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood     (add pig, with ring)

With a ring at the end of his nose,

His nose,

His nose,

With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."         (remove ring from pig’s nose)

So they took it away, and were married next day  

By the Turkey who lives on the hill.         (add turkey, place ring on cat’s paw)

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,     (remove pig and turkey)

Which they ate with a runcible spoon;   

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

They danced by the light of the moon,     (add moon)

The moon,

The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

 

You can find Jane McManus on Pinterest at https://www.pinterest.com/storylady101jm/.
She is a Library Assistant who has been holding story times for 24 tears at the Winton Branch of the Rochester Public Library!  Although she doesn't have her own blog, she is one of the contributors to http://mclskids.pbworks.com/w/page/20658653/Story%20Time, part of the wiki of the Monroe County Library System in Rochester, NY.