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Catherine Storr

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About Catherine Storr

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).

Recent updates about Catherine Storr

World Children's Day

Discover Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr. Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK.

1 month ago

World Children's Day

Polly And the Wolf Again is a wonderful book for your children. Published by Puffin.

1 month ago

Halloween

Amazing!!! The Mirror Image Ghost by Catherine Storr. Published by Faber & Faber.

1 month ago

October Events

Spooky stories like The Mirror Image Ghost can be brilliant fun to stay up late and read (as well as scaring yourselves!). This is a brilliant one by Catherine Storr from Faber & Faber.

1 month ago

The Big Draw

Celebrate drawing! Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr is published by Faber & Faber.

2 months ago

Make Your Bed Day

It's Make Your Bed Day! You should read Polly And the Wolf Again by Catherine Storr. Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK.

3 months ago

Festival of British Archaeology

What happened in the past? The Mirror Image Ghost by Catherine Storr from Faber & Faber

5 months ago

International Joke Day

A book that will make you all laugh! The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr from Penguin Random House Children's UK

5 months ago

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