The Giants and the Joneses

by Julia Donaldson

  Her mind raced forward – she was landing, she was running home across the fields with Stephen and Poppy, they were hugging Mum and Dad, they were telling everyone about their adventures.

  ‘It won’t happen unless I jump,’ she said to her pounding heart. And she jumped.

  She plummeted through the clouds. The wind roaring in her ears was almost deafening. Such speed, such noise! She had never felt anything like this before.

  And then there was a terrific jerk, and the roaring noise stopped.

  The mist had cleared. Colette looked up. The handkerchief, full of air, billowed above her. She looked down. Two tiny figures drifted below her.

  She was floating. She was free.

  31

  Three years later

  ‘BEESH, BEESH, BEESH, Jumbeelia!’ the girl giant pleaded. She was sitting up in bed and gazing at her big sister.

  Their mother pottered about the room, tidying up and half-listening to the story she had heard her older daughter tell so many times before. It was a ridiculous story, she thought, but anything was better than the awful books she used to have to read to Jumbeelia. Thank goodness she didn’t have to go through all that with Woozly.

  Jumbeelia sat on Woozly’s bed. Both pairs of eyes were alight as Jumbeelia told the story she never tired of telling and Woozly never tired of hearing. This story didn’t come out of a book. It was the story of Jumbeelia and the iggly plops.

  English/Groilish Dictionary

  again – tweeko

  fill – whedderwhay

  all – ootle

  funny – heehuckerly

  and – da

  Giant Land – Groil

  are – oor

  giant language – Groilish

  around – arump

  give – niffle

  away – awook

  go – glay

  baby – bobbaleely

  goodbye – yahaw

  back – abreg

  grandfather – grishpij

  bad – pecky

  grandmother – grishmij

  bean – bimple

  grass – strimp

  beanstalk – bimplestonk

  grow – eep

  button – whackleclack

  have – ev

  cat – spratch

  heart – jarn

  chip – snishsnosh

  hello – wahoy

  cuddly – woozly

  help – aheesh

  cushions – squodgies

  home – jum

  down – boff

  horrible – frikely

  drink – gloosh

  how – heek

  father – pij

  I – ee

  I’ll – eel

  other – ithry

  is – ez

  our – woor

  joy – sprubbin

  peace – zab

  kill – kraggle

  person – plop

  killer – kraggler

  phone – frangle

  kind – jin

  pillar box – pobo

  kitten – spratchkin

  please – beesh

  land – chay

  poor – roopy

  lawn mower – strimpchogger

  pound – poddum

  little – iggly

  pull – haroof

  look – oggle

  quickly – flisterflay

  lovely – beely

  right – rootle

  many – munchly

  see – oggle

  mine – mubbin

  sheep – blebber

  mother – mij

  sorry – yimp

  my – mub

  splash – glishglursh

  naughty – pecky

  stop – askorp

  no – nug

  swap – sweefswoof

  not – nug

  thank you – oidle oy

  old – floopy

  that – osh

  one – wunk

  the – o

  them – uth

  warning – throg

  they – uth

  washing line – swisheroo

  this – ish

  where – queesh

  three – thrink

  white – lolshly

  tomorrow – chingulay

  with – fa

  two – twunk

  worm – squerple

  weed – veep

  you – oy

  weedkiller – veep kraggler

  Groilish/English Dictionary

  abreg – back

  ev – have

  aheesh – help

  ez – is

  arump – around

  fa – with

  askorp – stop

  flisterflay – quickly

  awook – away

  floopy – old

  beely – lovely

  frangle – phone

  beesh – please

  frikely – horrible

  bimple – bean

  frimmot – carrot

  bimplestonk – beanstalk

  glay – go

  blebber – sheep

  glishglursh – splash

  bobbaleely – baby

  gloosh – drink

  boff – down

  grishmij – grandmother

  chay – land

  grishpij – grandfather

  chingulay – tomorrow

  Groil – Giant Land

  da – and

  Groilish – giant language

  ee – I

  haroof – pull

  eel – I’ll

  heehuckerly – funny

  eep – grow

  heek – how

  eeped – grown

  iggly – little

  ish – this

  pecky – bad, naughty

  ithry – other

  pij – father

  jarn – heart

  plop – person

  jin – kind

  pobo – pillar box

  jum – home

  poddum – pound

  kraggle – kill

  queesh – where

  kraggler – killer

  roopy – poor

  lolshly – white

  rootle – right

  mij – mother

  snishsnosh – chip

  mub – my

  spratch – cat

  mubbin – mine

  spratchkin – kitten

  munchly – many

  sprubbin – joy

  niffle – give

  squerple – worm

  nug – no, not

  squodgies – cushions

  o – the

  strimp – grass

  oggle – look, see

  strimpchogger – lawn

  oggled – seen

  mower

  oidle oy – thank you

  sweefswoof – swap

  oor – are

  swisheroo – washing line

  ootle – all

  thrink – three

  osh – that

  throg – warning

  oy – you

  tweeko – again

  twunk – two

  woor – our

  uth – they, them

  woozly – cuddly

  veep – weed

  wunk – one

  veep kraggler – weedkiller

  yahaw – goodbye

  wahoy – hello

  yimp – sorry

  whackleclack – button

  zab – peace

  whedderwhay – fill

 

 

 
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