Book description
There has been a huge festival and no end of rubbish has been left
behind - everything from umbrellas 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 . .
.
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 and she now lives in Alderney, the Channel Islands.
