The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf (A Puffin Book) - Softcover

Storr, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141373377 ISBN 13: 9780141373379

Publisher: Puffin, 2016

Synopsis

All four Clever Polly books in one volume including Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Polly and the Wolf Again, Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf and More Stories of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.
Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm. And Polly, not scared at all, outwits the wolf on each and every occasion!

About this title

About the Author:

Catherine Storr (1913-2001) was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for the Clever Polly series. She was born in London, and attended St Paul's Girls' School, and went on to study English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge. She tried unsuccessfully to become a novelist but without giving up this ambition she studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1944. She worked at the Middlesex Hospital. Afterwards, while regularly producing new children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books, from 1966 to the early seventies.
She married in 1942 and had had three daughters. She divorced in 1970 and remarried the economist Lord Balogh (1905-1985).

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0141373377
• ISBN 13: 9780141373379
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544