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Synopsis
The great recycling family, the Wombles of Wimbledon, are recycled themselves in this new edition of their adventures. Elisabeth Bereford's words and Nick Price's illustrations are reused, but there is a new preface and an accompanying audio CD, with Bernard Cribbins reading three stories. After the tales of Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk and Yellowstone (Wombles get their names from Uncle Bulgaria's atlas), there is a Who's Who and some Wombling facts. Age 5+
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About the Author
Elisabeth Beresford first came up with the idea for the Wombles 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. Bernard Cribbins is the voice of the Wombles. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2011 for his services to drama. www.thewomblesbooks.com
Review
No kid should grow up without having the Wombles in their lives * Bookbag * Endearing adventures involving gathering and sorting rubbish, braving meetings with humans and dogs and, in the nicest possible way, making sure the world is a better place * Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading 4 Kids * Time has not lessened their charm and children reading them for the first time will be delighted * Scotsman * Today's children will be as charmed as their parents by Great Uncle Bulgaria, Orinoco, Bungo and Tobermory and their quest to recycle rubbish and put it to good use * Daily Express *
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1408826488
- ISBN 13 9781408826485
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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