Born in 1926, she passed away on Christmas Eve in the Mignot Memorial Hospital, in Alderney in the Channel Islands, according to her son.
Her creations featured in a series of books as well as a TV series. Many of the characters in the stories stemmed from her family.
In 1998 she was made an MBE, remarking: "The Queen's a mad Womble fan."
She served as a Wren during World War II before finding work as a ghost writer on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour.
In her spare time she wrote fiction, starting with romantic stories for women's magazines.
The Wombles books were inspired by a comment made by her daughter during a Boxing Day walk on Wimbledon Common.
The Wombles were hugely popular in the 1970s
In a November 2010 interview with BBC Guernsey, she described the moment: "Over Christmas I had to keep the children quiet as their grandparents were visiting, so on Boxing Day, after the grandparents left, we got in my car and went to Wimbledon Common.
"The three of us ran backwards and forwards screaming at the top of our voices and it was my daughter who said to me 'oh ma, isn't it great on Wombledon Common?' and I said 'That's where the Wombles live.'"
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