1 Ginger Fiasco takes a trip

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CHAPTER ONE Ginger Fiasco takes a trip It was a peaceful afternoon in Grimwood. The sun was shining, birds were tweeting, ants were anting and a squirrel was flying through the air at a dangerously high speed. 'Treeeeboooooonk!' it screamed, before splatting into a tree trunk and slumping to the ground. A whistle blew. 'OK, let's have a break, everyone!' hooted an owl. His name was Frank, and he was the coach of the Grimwood treebonk team. He had very large eyebrows because some owls just do.

Willow, an outrageously cute little bunny rabbit, was holding a tray of juicy orange slices for the players. 'COME ON, TEAM!' she bellowed. 'Suck on these wedges of fruity goodness! Feel the vitamins pump through your veins! I wanna see you thwacking those tree trunks MUCH harder, capeesh?' The gaggle of dizzy squirrels staggered towards her. One of them was MASSIVE and had an extremely bushy tail. That was Nancy, and she wasn't a squirrel at all. She was, in fact, a fox. 'Cheers, Willow,' she grunted, grabbing a fistful of orange. Nancy was the only fox on Grimwood's treebonk team, but she didn't care. She wasn't quite as fast as the squirrels, but she was strong and her tail was powerful. It helped catapult her from tree to tree, and she was quickly becoming Grimwood's star player. Not bad for a scruffy fox from the Big City.

'Yay, go Nancy!' shouted Ted, her little brother. He waved at her from the sidelines. Treebonk really wasn't Ted's thing – he was more into acting and singing and writing poems about clouds – but he enjoyed watching his big sis practise. Especially if he could eat cakes at the same time. I'm sensing you may have questions. Fear not! Your friend Eric D is here to help. What the jiggins is Grimwood? Grimwood is a forest far, far, faaaaar away. It is full of trees and sky and mud and stones. It smells weird and there's loads of litter and old shopping trolleys. There's a broken electricity pylon in the middle of it that buzzes

strangely. But it's also FUN and GREAT and it's where this story is set so you'd better get used to it. What the Jiminy is treebonk? Treebonk is a woodland sport mainly played by squirrels. They jump off really tall trees and shout TREEEEBONK!. Then they boing off other trees and try not to touch the ground. They must boing for as long as possible. This goes on for absolutely ages until one team is entirely on the ground or all the players start crying. What in the name of Jehoshaphat is an owl? Now this is a complicated one. An OWL is a large bird with a BEAK and two massive flappy WINGS. It goes 'hoot-hoot-hoot' and can spin its head around really far, which looks cool and weird. For centuries, owls have been manufactured in a little family-run factory in Portugal. 'Gosh, just watching treebonk is exhausting, isn't it?' sighed Titus the stag, shovelling a jam doughnut into his snout. 'Where on earth do they find the energy?' 'No idea,' said Wiggy, whose large badgery paws were holding a jug of pink lemonade. 'Another glass of fizz, old pal?' Titus was the mayor of Grimwood. He had big, kind eyes, knobbly antlers and a heart of love and goodness. He was also

keen on baking and watching romantic comedies. Wiggy the badger often drove around Grimwood in a rusty old Jeep, but today he was relaxing next to Titus and Ted on a tatty picnic blanket. 'Did you see me give out the oranges?' panted Willow, hopping back to the picnic blanket. 'I sure did!' said Ted, and he gave her a high-five. 'Frank says if I keep doing a good job he'll give me an even bigger badge,' said Willow. 'He says I'm the best assistant coach he's ever had.' Willow pointed to a badge she had attached to her fur. It said 'ASISTUNT COWCH'.