Elisabeth Beresford
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Description
Elisabeth Beresford, also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a literary family, she took work as a journalist, but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. Their recycling theme was noted especially and the Wombles became popular with children across the world. While Beresford wrote many other works, the Wombles remained her best-known.
Books
Oxford Literacy Web
24 p. : 24 cm
Escape to happiness
It was just another newspaper story to Rose -- a Society wedding, nothing that would ever touch her life. Certainly, when the wedding was called off, the bride left at the altar, the last thing Rose expected was to find the bridegroom on her doorstep, begging for help that he declared only she could give him!
Animals Nobody Wanted
Paul and Rosa were not looking forward to their holiday on a lonely farm by the sea without their parents - though there was that old stone fort to explore. But when they follow the enormous ginger cat up the steep steps to Ballig Fort, neither of them is prepared for the exciting secret world they uncover. Before long, the children are involved in a battle to save and care for a whole zoo of wild creatures, including sea-birds damaged by oil, a jackdaw called Bertie and a friendly black labrador!
Curious magic
A boy's vacation on an island off the coast of England brings him in contact with a white witch, a girl his own age with increasing magic powers, a boy from the sea, and travel backwards in time.
The Wombles to the rescue
The Wombles have just gratefully returned to their burrow on Wimbledon Common. They had to leave because heavy lorries thundering up and down the nearby road threatened to make the roof of the burrow cave in. However, now that the Wombles are back, there is another problem they have to contend with.
The secret room
The hidden mill
Four children (one in a baby carriage) invite a companionable eighty-seven-year-old neighbor to share their secret retreat in an abandoned mill where they devise a toboggan run and survive the threat of an antique dealer's curiosity.