LUCY LEMON

A
Book
 LUCY LEMON
The Munch Bunch are a group
of fruits, vegetables and nuts.
One day they ran away from the
grocer’s shop where they lived.
They made their new homes in and
around an old, forgotten garden shed.
This is a story about Lucy Lemon,
one of the Munch Bunch. A
Book

Illustrations by Angela Mitson

Written by Giles Reed The
1980 Studio Publications (lpswich) Limited

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Lucy Lemon is one of the
Munch Bunch.
She lives in the upstairs flat of an old
chest of drawers. Her friend Emma
Apple lives downstairs.
The Munch Bunch enjoys teasing and
playing tricks on Lucy, because she
never realizes when they are joking.
She really is a lemon!
One morning, when Lucy woke up,
she saw that it had been snowing very
heavily during the night. « Hooray! »
she said, and hurried outside to play.
Supercool the Cucumber and Suzie
Celery were pinning up a big notice.
So Lucy stopped having a look at it.
« The Great Munch Bunch Sledge
Race, » she read out loud.
« Why don’t you have a go, Lucy?
It’s not difficult to make a fast sledge,
» joke Supercool. « All you need is a
comfortable chair. »
« But don’t forget the mudguards to
keep the snow off you, » giggled Suzie.
Lucy had no idea that she was being
teased, so she decided to make her
own sledge and enter the race.
Lucy went to see Scruff Gooseberry.
She thought he might have some
mudguards to spare.
« How would you make a sledge go
really fast? » asked Lucy.
« With go-faster striped paint, of
course, » said Scruff, just for a joke.
« Go and see Sally Strawberry, she’ll
have some for you. »
Poor Lucy Lemon still didn’t realize she
was being teased. So she went to ask
Sally if she had any go-faster striped
paint.
Sally could hardly keep a straight face,
she wanted to laugh so much. « I’m
so sorry, Lucy, I’ve run out of striped
paint. But you can put the stripes on
with this paint. It will be just as good. »
« My main problem now is how to steer
it, » said Lucy.
« With a steering wheel, of course, »
said Sally. « Bounce is always doing
things. He’ll find you one. »
Bounce had some wheels left over
from when he’d made a trolley to carry
his toys in. So he gave Lucy one of
those.
He realized that the others were
teasing Lucy, so he thought he’d
join in too.
« Don’t forget you’ll need some brakes
to stop you at the end of the race. And,
as you’ll probably be going very fast,
I think a parachute would be just the
thing! »
« What a good idea! » said Lucy.
So Lucy went straight to Lizzie Leek’s
house to ask her if she had any
parachute material to spare.
Lizzie was quite surprised at Lucy’s
request. But, as she is used to Lucy
asking some funny questions, she gave
her the material without saying a word.
« What are we going to do with her! »
said Lizzie to herself.
On her way home, she saw Corny-on-
the-Cob. « What have you got there,
Lucy? » he asked.
« I’m making a sledge for the big race
this afternoon, » said Lucy.
« Well, don’t forget the rubber hammer.
Everyone has at least one of those on
a really fast sledge, » he joked. « And
you’ll need a spot of elbow grease on
those mudguards! »
Then she met Casper Carrot, who is
always worrying about something or
other.
At first, he was worrying about the
huge snowball which Supercool had
just thrown at Suzie Celery. But, when
he saw Lucy staggering along with her
heavy load, he started to worry about
her instead. « Let me help you, Lucy, »
he said.
And on the way, she told him all about
the wonderful sledge she was going to
make.
« You will be wearing a safety harness,
won’t you? » asked Casper anxiously.
As soon as Lucy got home, she put all
the things she’d collected on the floor
and set to work.
First of all, she painted the chair with
go-faster stripes.
Then she polished the mudguards until
they shone like glass.
« I couldn’t get any of that elbow. I do
hope polish will do instead, » she said
to herself.
At last, Lucy had finished.
She pulled her sledge on the front
lawn, and stood in the snow
admiring it.
She thought her new sledge was
magnificent!
Lucy felt very proud as she pulled the
sledge to the race.
When the others saw her, they just
couldn’t help laughing. They were all
very pleased with their joke.
« What a lemon that young Lucy is! »
said Corny. And his sides were shaking
with laughter.
It was time for the race to begin.
All the competitors lined up, trying
to concentrate on the difficult course
ahead. But instead, most of them were
laughing at the sight of Lucy, sitting
back comfortably on her home-made
sledge.
At last. They were off!
Lucy zoomed into the lead.
Suzie Celery was so amazed, she
forgot to look where she was going.
She ran headlong into Scruff
Gooseberry. CRASH!
They both collided with Wally Walnut
and Tom Tomato.
Lucy raced to the winning line, way
ahead of the others.
As she neared the end of the course,
Lucy pulled on the brakes, and the
parachute unfolded.
The sledge stopped very sedately in
front of the line of spectators.
Lucy was the winner!
Lucy was the happiest lemon in the
world as Pedro presented her with the
winner’s trophy.
And, just at that moment Supercool
whizzed past.
Although he’d managed to stay in the
race, he didn’t have any brakes to help
him stop.
Silly cucumber.
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BUTTON and TINY PIPPA PEAR
That day, Lucy Lemon certainly had the CASPER CARROT PROFESSOR PEABODY
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EMMA APPLE SCRUFF GOOSEBERRY
LIZZIE LEEK SPUD
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NURSE PLUM THE BANANA BUNCH
OLIVE TOM TOMATO
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