The Wandering Wombles
โ Scribed by Beresford, Elisabeth
- Book ID
- 106979747
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Series
- Wombles 2
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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 . . . Classic and much loved characters brought back into print with a fresh new cover look and inside illustrations to celebrate over 40 years of the Wombles. Elisabeth Beresford first came up with the idea for the Womble characters when walking on Wimbledon Common with her two children. She...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly fond of his food and a subsequent forty winks; general handyman extraordinaire Tobermory, who can turn almost anything that the Wombles retrieve from Wimbledon Common int
Orinoco is certainly the tubbiest of the Wombles and is perhaps the Womble who needs the most encouragement to go out on the daily sortie to clear up and recycle all the rubbish that humans leave behind . . . Meanwhile, Tomsk, DIY-er extraordinaire, is getting to grips with the one of the humans' mo