Changing Lucy-Anne: Lucy-Anne Tales, #2

By Derek Smith

It's the slowest race on record when Lucy-Anne becomes a tortoise and has a race with a snail. She becomes a statue and doesn't like pigeons at all. In another tale, she's a cat on the rooftops trying to stop the howling cats keeping her awake. And then a book in a library, treated badly by a girl and boy who have only come in to mess around. 'Highly recommended' says The Book Trust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Earlham Books
• Release date: Feb 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781909804401

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Derek Smith

with illustrations by Abi Bown

Contents

Title Page

Publishing Info

Lucy-Anne and the Pigeons

Lucy-Anne has a Race

Lucy-Anne on the Roof

Lucy-Anne at the Library

Other Books by Derek Smith

About the Author

Published by Earlham Books

Layout and design by Lia Rees

Text copyright Derek Smith

Illustrations copyright Abi Bown

All Rights Reserved

The right of Derek Smith to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988

ISBN: 978-1-909804-40-1

Lucy-Anne and the Pigeons

One day Aunt Mary came to stay for a few days. She was very fussy, always telling Lucy-Anne to wash her hands, blow her nose, clean her shoes and so on.

Aunt Mary was tall and thin and when she went out always wore a long coat with a different coloured scarf. She said that you never know what the weather will be like.

At breakfast on the second morning of her visit, she showed Lucy-Anne a photo of herself and Daddy taken when they were children. It made Lucy-Anne laugh, they were so little. In the picture they were feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Lucy-Anne looked at Aunt Mary and Daddy. They were so different now; it was hard to think they had been children once. Hard to think that they had been little like that and been told to do this and that by Granny and Granddad. Yet here they were in the picture with their bright faces: Aunt Mary had a butterfly hair-slide and Daddy wore a football shirt. They were crouching down with seed in their hands with pigeons all around them.

‘I’d like to do that,’ said Lucy-Anne.

‘I haven’t been there in years,’ said Aunt Mary.

‘So let’s go again,’ said Daddy.

And they all agreed it would be a good idea.

So the next day Lucy-Anne, Aunt Mary and Daddy went to Trafalgar Square. The weather was bright and sunny, but Aunt Mary still wore her long coat, although she did have it unbuttoned. With it she wore a pink scarf and a straw hat with a wide brim. Lucy-Anne wore