Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf (A Puffin Book) - Softcover

Storr, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141360232 ISBN 13: 9780141360232

Publisher: Puffin, 2015

Synopsis

CLEVER POLLY AND THE STUPID WOLF by Catherine Storr is back in a brand-new edition in A Puffin Book series with the charming original black and white line illustrations by Marjorie-Ann Watts.
Twelve stories written for the author's daughter, who was scared of the wolf under the bed! 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!
Also in A Puffin Book, the sequel: POLLY AND THE WOLF AGAIN.

About this title

Review:

All the wolf wants to do is eat a little girl, but he has chosen one very clever girl, and he is unfortunately one very stupid wolf! A charming, classic tale. (Waterstones Guide for Kids' Books)

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: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141360232
• ISBN 13: 9780141360232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Watts Marjorie-Ann