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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).
Marianne Dreams
The Mirror Image Ghost
Polly And the Wolf Again
Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf
Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf
More Stories of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf
The Mirror Image Ghost is a wonderful book for your children. Published by Faber & Faber.
9 days ago
Trick or treat? The Mirror Image Ghost by Catherine Storr from Faber & Faber is a great book for fancy dress inspiration!
13 days ago
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.
15 days ago
Love drawing? Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr from Faber & Faber is brilliant!
1 month ago
Could there be a better time to read Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr. Published by Puffin.
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
4 months ago
The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr from Puffin a real fantasy read.
The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr from Penguin Random House Children's UK a real fantasy read.
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