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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).

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National Bed Month

Seeing as #NationalBedMonth has just started why not read Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr from Puffin.

11 days ago

National Bed Month

Seeing as #NationalBedMonth has just started why not read Polly And the Wolf Again by Catherine Storr from Puffin.

11 days ago

National Bed Month

Seeing as #NationalBedMonth has just started why not read Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr from Penguin Random House Children's UK.

11 days ago

National Bed Month

Seeing as #NationalBedMonth has just started why not read Polly And the Wolf Again by Catherine Storr from Penguin Random House Children's UK.

11 days ago

World Children's Day

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

3 months ago

World Children's Day

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

3 months ago

Halloween

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

4 months 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.

4 months ago

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