Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. I had always assumed Clever Polly had come out in the 1980s or 90s, when books with a positive message for girls – such as Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko’s The Paper Bag Princess – or those that reimagined fairytales – for example Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – were being written. Polly doesn’t modify her behaviour because the wolf is out to get her, she quite happily engages him in conversation, carries on with regular trips to her grandmother’s house, and only runs away at the very last minute. There were three sequels in the same format: Polly and the Wolf Again, Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf and Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf.

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So, naturally, I had to get the first book if for no other reason than to learn how a little girl meets a hungry, stupid wolf to begin with. Many of the stories are based on the wolf’s interpretation of popular fairy tales involving wolves, including Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The realization that we all have power for evil must come some time, and could take far more disturbing forms than this.Authors / Illustrators I find it really interesting to hear what authors and illustrators enjoy reading or have enjoyed reading with children. Afterwards, while regularly producing children's books, she also worked as an editorial assistant for Penguin Books from 1966 to the early 1970s. Throughout the book Polly is tormented by a rather unpleasant wolf who constantly threatens to eat her! Inside the front cover was a book plate with my five-year-old scrawl across it, proving (if proof was necessary) that the copy was really mine, and on the opposite page, my mum’s name in neat letters, indicating that she once took it into the primary school she taught at (where books without the name of a teacher written inside were likely to go missing).

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A few weeks ago I was helping my mother clear out the room I had as a small child, sifting through moth-eaten teddy bears, boxes of broken crayons and hundreds of children’s books.

She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. Clever Polly fits so well with these, and 60 years later it still reads like a feminist reworking of Little Red Riding Hood. You will find many creative activities based on each book to make reading even more enjoyable and interactive.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm.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. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? The pathetic attempts of Wolf to devour Polly, and her perpetual slipping of that noose are in themselves only humourous.

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She read them when I had written them, because she was one of the children who always had a wolf under the bed and she was frightened of it.My boys and I agreed that this was a three-star book — fun enough to read aloud, but not as good or as a memorable as some of the novels we’ve read together before. If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in.