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It's not every girl who finds a great black wolf at her front door, saying he's going to eat her up. But clever Polly isn't frightened. She has a plan that's bound to foil the stupid wolfTags
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Randomly remembered reading this book when I was little, and had to buy a cheap copy for the nostalgia! On an anthropomorphic level, poor wolf, but as a life lesson for young girls - stay clever, Polly, and keep the obnoxiously persistent wolves from the door!
Does just what it says on the tin: the bad wolf is dumb and the little girl is precocious. Meant for quite little ones, but also I think it hasn't aged very well.
It started off funny, but became rather tedious after a chapter or 4....
Had this on audio cassette as a kid and loved it. I wonder if I still do have it somewhere though?
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Author Catherine Storr was born in London, England on July 21, 1913 and was brought up in Kensington. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and went on to study English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She then went to medical school and worked part-time as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine of the Middlesex show more Hospital from 1950 to 1963. Her first book was published in 1940, but was not successful. It was not until the 1950's that her books became popular. She wrote mostly children's books as well as books for adults, plays, short stories, and adapted one of her novels into an opera libretto. She published more than 30 children's books, but is best known for Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Marianne Dreams, which was made into a television series and a film. Catherine Storr died on January 6, 2001 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1974
- Original language
- English
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- 172
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- 190,342
- Reviews
- 4
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- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
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- 12
- ASINs
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