Casper Carrot

First Edition Thus (first published in England 1980 as paperback). Scarce hardback -- Pictorial boards -- tight, bright and unmarked inside and out. Illustrations by Angela Mitson. A Munch Bunch Book published by Rourke Publications 1981. Munch Bunch is the title of a series of children's books, written by British author Denis Bond (under the pen name Giles Reed) and illustrated by Angela Mitson, a teenager who had created the characters. They were published between 1979 and 1984 by Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Rourke Publications, Inc. in the United States. 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.