Glimmerings of Wakefulness

Literary Geeks Unite!!! . . . Looking for a Book Title . . .
Edit 4.19.09: I totally win! Google is a beautiful thing! The book, Ladies & Gents, is The Wump World by Bill Peet! I FOUND IT!!!! http://www.librarything.com/work/55155

Okay . . . looking for a book title . . . I figger maybe the combined GeekPower of this collective of people might be able to remember/deduce it.

The information I have been given is that it is
- a children's book, as in picture book.
- it is about a society of wombats . . . or possibly beavers. Or possibly even some other "rodent-like creature".
- a spaceship lands, they think they remember. And "aliens" (a.k.a. humans) overrun the furry little creatures' world, use it up, and leave a polluted wasteland in their wake.
- this is not a Dr. Seuss book.
- probably published in the late 60's/early 70's . . .

Ideas?

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