THE WOMBLES TO ROAM AGAIN ON WIMBLEDON COMMON
NEWS FROM BLOOMSBURY

Classic and much loved characters to be brought back into print with a fresh new cover look and inside illustrations to celebrate over 40 years of the Wombles

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 into something useful; Madame Cholet, who cooks the most delicious and natural foods to keep the Wombles happy and contented; and last but not least, Bungo, one of the youngest and cheekiest Wombles of all, who has much to learn and is due to venture out on to the common on his own for the very first time . . .

UK publication November 2010.

Footnote:
The Bookman is delighted with this news. During my Penguin days The Wombles titles were among our best-sellling Puffins. I met author Elizabeth Beresford in London in 1978 and later visited her on a couple of occasions at her home on Guernsey in the Channel Islands.