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Submitted: November 1, 2010
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The House That Jack Builtby =ColletteJEllis

Digital Art / Mixed Media / Surreal

Winner of the UK Caldecott Childeren's Illustration Award 2011

The House that Jack Built - November 2010

Illustration for the Caldecott Society exhibition in Liverpool this December; my class has been asked to produce work based on his nursery rhymes and illustrations as a tribute to him.

“A British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honor. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognized by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years.
Caldecott's output, however, ranged wider than this: he illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries.” - (Wikipedia)

Original Rhyme:

This is the house that Jack built!
This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cat that killed the rat
That ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the cock that crowed in the morn
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.

This is the farmer sowing his corn
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built!

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~8BitStitchPunk Nov 9, 2012 Student Writer

Strange but beautiful. I love it!

~ScottMan2th Jan 16, 2011

The mind of jack was full of dreams and visions
of what he thought were very strange things

of pin-wheels, cats, and falling rats
of ravens at full moon... of dogs on
horseback in the air, and courting by
balloon at just a quarter past the noon...
Of massive gears, and old clockwork parts
all turned upside-down...and the grinding of a
windmill...spinning dreams high above the distant shore

=ColletteJEllis Jan 17, 2011 Professional General Artist

That was gorgus!

You should continue writing this as a poem XP

~ScottMan2th Jan 17, 2011

i try to make comments as meaningful as i can.
it’s a reflection of my first impressions on seeing
someone’s art that may have effected me in some way.

it's my way of saying thank you for sharing your
creative spirit and sparking dreams in my soul.