Elisabeth Beresford

The Wombles at Work

Illustration:Price, Nick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Join in the adventures of the Wombles, the classic and much loved creatures, as they make good use of the bad rubbish they find on Wimbledon Common, in this book by the original creator of the Wombles.There has been a huge festival and no end of rubbish has been left behind - everything from sunglasses to shoes, drinks cans and bottles. Who would have thought humans could leave so much behind, not bothering to recycle? The Wombles have their work cut out for them . . .Abridged versions of some of the Wombles stories can be heard on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds for Christmas 2023. Unabridged brand-new audiobooks are available too.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Children's Books / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 30801
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: von 7 bis 9 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9781408808368
• ISBN-10: 1408808366
• Artikelnr.: 29728591

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

‘A lively, entertaining and humorous book, stuffed with ingenious ideas and endearing characters'