# The Complete Polly and the Wolf - Hardcover

by **Catherine Storr** (Author), **Marjorie Ann Watts** (Illustrator), **Jill Bennett** (Illustrator)

When Catherine Storr's daughter was very small, she was afraid of the wolf under her bed, so every night her mother would tell her a story in which Polly outwitted the wolf. These bedtime stories eventually became the collection _Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf_, a wonderfully thrilling and reassuring series of adventures in which the clever, independent, and unstoppable Polly fools the persistent, hungry young wolf time and again. In a match much like Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner but more polite and quick-witted, Polly and the wolf develop ever-more complicated ways of turning the tables on each other as they grow older and, in Polly's case at least, wiser. Three more collections of stories followed the original _Clever Polly_, all hilariously inventive variations on a much loved theme, and all of the stories are collected here for the first time.

### Author Biography

**Catherine Storr** (1913-2001) was born Catherine Cole and brought up in Kensington, London. A talented organist, she studied with Gustav Holst at St Paul's Girls' School. She graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, with a degree in English literature and went on to study medicine. She began practicing as a psychiatrist in 1944 and worked at Middlesex Hospital in the 1950s and '60s before becoming an editor at Penguin in 1966. She published her first book, _Ingeborg and Ruthy_, in 1940, and married Anthony Storr, a fellow psychiatrist, in 1942. They had three daughters: Sophia, Emma, and Polly--for whom she wrote _Polly and the Wolf_ and its sequels. In addition to her stories about Polly and the Wolf, she went on to write some one hundred books for young readers and adults, including _Marianne Dreams_, _Marianne and Mark_, _Lucy_, and _Tales from a Psychiatrist's Couch_. About her work, she once remarked, "I don't write with a child readership in mind, I write for the childish side of myself."

**Marjorie Ann Watts** is the daughter of _Punch_ cartoonist Arthur Watts. After training as a painter and illustrator in the 1940s, she worked for a time as an art editor and typographer before embarking on a career writing and illustrating books for children. In addition to her stories for young people, she has also published a novel, a story collection, a memoir of her childhood in wartime London, and a children's guide to European painting.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 04, 2016

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