The Wombles at Work

ISBN-13: 9781408808368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Elisabeth Beresford

Opis

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
After a huge festival, 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...

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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. Nick Price has illustrated all sorts of books including, for Bloomsbury, the picture book More, More, More! and the much-loved Wombles series. Nick lives in deepest Devon.