The Wombles Book

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

21283

Title

The Wombles Book

Description

A hardback book from the television series 'The Wombles'. The cover has small illustrations of all the various types of Wombles as featured in the television show. The text appears in the bottom left corner 'stories for young children.'

Artist / maker

BBC TV

Date

1975

Size

28 x 21 ½ cm

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

Accession number

MC659.97 MC659.97

The Wombles are a group of fictional furry mouse like creatures, which live in burrows on Wimbledon Common in London. They spend their time eating and collecting rubbish, which they recycle and use in lots of ingenious ways. The Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. The books were made in to a television programme in the mid 1970s. The message of green living and caring for your environment was part of the ecology movement of the 1970's.

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