The Muddle-Headed Wombat

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The Muddle-Headed Wombat is a fictional wombat featured in the radio serials and later in the children's books of the same name written by Australian author Ruth Park.

[edit] Synopsis

The Muddle-Headed Wombat books follow the Muddle-Headed Wombat and his friends, a good-natured, practical female mouse and a vain, neurotic male tabby cat. The characters call each other simply Wombat, Mouse and Tabby.

Wombat's speech is peppered with malapropisms and spoonerisms, e.g. treely ruly for really and truly, lawn the mow for mow the lawn and Cindergorilla for Cinderella. He has a bicycle with red wheels, of which he is intensely proud and which he anthropomorphises, e.g. complaining that it bit him when he accidentally injured himself trying to repair it.

[edit] Books

The 1994 paperback edition of the Muddle-Headed Wombat four book omnibus which was first published in 1979
The 1994 paperback edition of the Muddle-Headed Wombat four book omnibus which was first published in 1979
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat 1962 (ISBN 0207167338)
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday 1964
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops 1965
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School 1966
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Snow 1966
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat on a Rainy Day 1969
  • The Muddle Headed Wombat in the Springtime 1970
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat on the River 1970
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Bush Band 1973
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat and the Invention 1975
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Clean-Up Day 1976
  • The Adventures of the Muddle-Headed Wombat 1979
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat 1979, contains:
The Muddle-Headed Wombat
The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday
The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops
The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School
  • More Adventures of the Muddle-Headed Wombat 1980
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat is Very Bad 1981
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat Stays at Home 1982
  • The book of big dome 1990
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