The Wandering Wombles

Name: The Wandering Wombles
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback | English

By (author): Elisabeth Beresford

Illustrated by: Nick Price

The Wombles live in a beautifully snug, well-ordered and cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common - the perfect base from which to sort and recycle all the rubbish that unthinking humans constantly drop. But the Wombles'' peaceful and harmonious existence is suddenly under threat. The heavy lorries that thunder along the roads near the Common make the burrow shake and tremble so much that it is no longer safe for the Wombles to live there. With a heavy heart, Great Uncle Bulgaria decides that the Wombles will have to move from the burrow that they have lived in for many, many years. And it is up to young Bungo and Orinoco to bravely sally forth and try to locate a new home for the Wombles... See more

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Format: Paperback
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 7-9
ISBN13: 9781408808337

About Elisabeth Beresford

Elisabeth Beresford first came up with the idea for the Womble characters when walking on Wimbledon Common with her two children. She started sketching out the characters that day: Great Uncle Bulgaria was based on her father-in-law Tobermory on her brother (an inventor) Orinoco on her son and Madame Cholet on her mother. She hoped that the Wombles stories would encourage children to fight pollution and to think up ways of ''making good use of bad rubbish''. In fact the Wombles so charmed the nation that they were chosen as the mascots for the Tidy Britain campaign. Since then they have had their own television series first broadcast on Jackanory. Elisabeth Beresford was awarded an MBE for her services to children''s literature in 1998.