Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
“Yippeee!” he yelled as he bounced like a ball
and woke up Sleeping Beauty.
“You’re not Prince Charming!” the Princess yawned.
“No way!” said Humpty D.
“I’m a rock ‘n’ rolling egg.
And I’m king of your bouncy castle.”
Sleeping Beauty called up to her friend,
locked in the tallest tower:
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel!
My castle is bouncy.
Jump out and let down your hair!”
“Whoo-hoo!” shrieked Rapunzel.
“I’m free from my prison.
And I’m queen of the bouncy castle.”
Jack and Jill went up the hill
and saw the party starting.
Jack fell down and bounced back up
and Jill came tumbling after.
Hey diddle diddle!
The cat and the fiddle.
The cow jumped over the moon …
… and landed on the Big Bad Wolf.
Then three Little Pigs went:
“Whee!”
“Whee!”
“Whee!”
“We’re the kings of the bouncy castle.”
Cinderella and Red Riding Hood
played Ring a-bounce-a-Roses with Goldilocks.
And when the Three Bears
and the Billy Goats Gruff
clambered onto the castle,
they all fell down.
Jack jumped down from the beanstalk
and bounced as high as a cloud.
Then everyone tried to copy him
and argued with each other.
“I’m the King!”
“I’m the Queen!”
“I’m the King!”
“I’m the Queen!”
“I’m the King of the bouncy castle!”
“Why should those goody-goodies have all the fun?”
said the Wolf. It just wasn’t fair.
So he rounded up all his Big Bad mates
and they gate-crashed the bouncy castle party.
“You weren’t invited,” cried Sleeping Beauty
“Get down, you dirty rascals!” shouted Humpty.
But the witches cackled
and the ugly sisters squawked.
The troll burped and fought with the wolf.
They all screeched at the top of their voices:
“I’m the King!”
“I’m the Queen!”
“I’m the Queen!”
“No, I’m the Queen!”
“I’m the King of the bouncy castle!”
The sun went behind a big black cloud
and it seemed like the party was over.
But that was no cloud. It was Jack’s foe, the giant,
jumping down from the beanstalk.
The giant landed on top of the bouncing rascals
and squashed them as flat as a pancake.
Then the castle wobbled
and lost its bounce,
before it slowly disappeared.
“Sorry,” said the giant, hanging his head.
“I just had to have a go.”
“No worries,” said Humpty.
“You and the wolf
can put it together again.”
So they huffed
and they puffed
and they blew the castle back up.
And the party went on
jumping and jiving
rocking and rolling
until …
all the kings
and the queens
of the bouncy castle
had bounced themselves
silly.
THE END
© Nick Walker 2007
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