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!
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 in 1944 had the first of her three
daughters. She divorced in 1970 and remarried the economist Lord
Balogh (1905-1985).
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