The Wombles Collection: A 6 Book Bundle
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Overview
Meet the original recyclers, the Wombles of Wimbledon Common, as they make good use of the rubbish humans throw away.
For the first time, read all the Wombles stories in one. Follow the young Wombles as they take their first steps outside the Womble burrow to collect rubbish in the big wide world. Marvel at Tobermory’s incredible inventions from what humans would consider ’trash’. And discover a whole Womble community as they head off around the world for even more adventures.
This collection contains all six of the Wombles books, beautifully illustrated by Nick Price:
The Wombles
The Wandering Wombles
The Wombles at Work
The Invisible Womble and Other Stories
The Wombles to the Rescue
The Wombles Go Round the World
Read all the Wombles adventures in one fantastic collection, following the much-loved creatures as they go about their day making good use of bad rubbish
Although many know the Wombles from the television series, the series was based on the charming and well-written books that came first, originally published in 1968. Even now, the Wombles’ songs feature on YouTube, indicating the enduring appeal of these characters
Much beloved by adults, children of today will also respond to the prescient and timely message of recycling that the Wombles live by and whose motto is ‘making good use of bad rubbish’
Illustrations by Nick Price
- Title: The Wombles Collection: A 6 Book Bundle
- Authors: Elisabeth Beresford, Nick Price
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 1312
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526644008, 1526644002
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526644008
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:21:03Z
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.