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The Munch Bunch is a series of children's books, created in the UK by Barrie Henderson and Elizabeth Henderson and originally published between 1979 and 1984.

The Munch Bunch are a group of unwanted vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts who were swept to the corner of a shop but ran away together and set up home in and around an old, forgotten garden shed.

A spin-off television programme also ran for four series during the early 1980s.

In addition, a licensed range of children's yoghurts — originally a tie-in with the television series

The books went out of print in the mid-to-late 1980s following a fire at a Studio Publications which destroyed all the original artwork.

1998 Ladybird Books series

A completely different series of Munch Bunch books was published in 1998 by Ladybird Books in the UK to tie in with the yoghurts, following the resurgence brought about by the TV commercials of 1994–96. Denis Bond and Angela Mitson were not involved and the characters were different, although a few such as Sally Strawberry

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  • The Munch Bunch TV series at the IMDb
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  • The Munch Bunch TV series intro online (YouTube)
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