The Wombles live in a beautifully snug, well-ordered and cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common - the perfect base from which to sort and recycle all the rubbish that unthinking humans constantly drop. But the Wombles' peaceful and harmonious existence is suddenly under threat. The heavy lorries that thunder along the roads near the Common make the burrow shake and tremble so much that it is no longer safe for the Wombles to live there. With a heavy heart, Great Uncle Bulgaria decides that the Wombles will have to move from the burrow that they have lived in for many, many years. And it is up to young Bungo and Orinoco to bravely sally forth and try to locate a new home for the Wombles...

 

This book is part of a book series called The Wombles .

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

This is Dawn Casey's first book for Bloomsbury. Her previously published titles include The Great Race, published by Barefoot. She has also worked as a children's book reviewer for Achuka and Armadillo, and as the organiser of the Brighton Children's Book Festival. Dawn lives in East Sussex. Nick Price lives in deepest Devon, always keeping one eye open for dolphins, porpoises and even the occasional basking shark. When he's not doing that, he sits in his studio and uses the other eye to illustrate books for children, including Pongwiffy, Clover Twig, The Snagglegrollop and Tumtum and Nutmeg. Elisabeth Beresford is a well-known and established children's author who has been awarded the MBE for her services to children's literature, but is best-known for the characters she created 25 years ago - the Wombles