Michelle and the Mermaid is an illustrated children's book in which Lucie's friends Michelle and Captain Bruce turn her into a mermaid. This is the third in the Bruce and the Bumble Bug is an illustrated children's book in which Lucie and her friend Captain Bruce encounter a Bumble Bug. A classic chase ensues. Bruce and the Bumble Bug is the first in the rhyming stories series - The Adventures of Lucie kids picture books that follow Lucie a girl aged 4.