Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf

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I believe this book is suitable for children in key stage 1 and lower key stage 2. It can be used in English for reading and writing. The book can be used as a comprehension in English lessons and the children can recall the key points from the book which would help assess the children’s understanding. It can also be used to assess children understanding of previous books. The book contains some moral messages which children can also refer to. It would be excellent to use for role-playing (Drama) and exploring dialogue between characters (mini plays in groups). Author Catherine Storr 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 Hospital from 1950 to 1963.

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I read this purely for the nostalgia factor, but it's genuinely hilarious?? The wolf is pure comedic genius. The conversations he and Polly have had me in stitches, such as when they discuss poetry and the wolf is unimpressed with Polly's recital of Monday's Child: I read this with the 8 year old I was babysitting and she really enjoyed it. A few old fashioned words like 'perambulator' which she struggled with but I explained what they meant. All the wolf wants to do is eat a little girl, but he has chosen one very clever girl, and he is unfortunately one very stupid wolf! A charming, classic tale. Waterstones Guide for Kids' BooksThis literary theme is carried on through the book, which references many favourite children’s stories, including Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, but it also has overtones of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, with Polly managing to deflect the wolf’s violence towards her over and over again, albeit with chocolate cake and daisies rather than cliff-hanger stories. 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. This is an excellent, humorous book that tells the story of a very clever and witty girl. It consists of 12 chapters, each telling a different short story about a little girl and a wolf whose main desire is to eat her. 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. Retelling previous stories allows children to recall and make connections from prior knowledge. alsdkfjdksl SEE WHAT I MEAN. What a misunderstood artiste. I loved the story where he takes inspiration from The Three Little Pigs and brings a bomb to blow the house down, and then when Polly convinces him that being blown to pieces wouldn't leave much for the wolf to eat:

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Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm. And Polly, not scared at all, outwits the wolf on each and every occasion! Read more Details Polly is being tormented by a rather unpleasant wolf who constantly threatens to eat her! Polly, however, is far too clever for the silly wolf and devises a number of delicious ways to prevent him from eating her! Authors / Illustrators I find it really interesting to hear what authors and illustrators enjoy reading or have enjoyed reading with children. In this category you will find recommendations written by authors and illustrators along with books that they have written and / or illustrated. I read that the book was based on the author's real daughter's real phobia (as a child) about wolves and was a way of working through that. To me the book is more interesting when read this way, about a real little girl's grappling with an imagined wolf. If the wolf represents toxic anxiety and it is really about triumph over fear then I suddenly like it a lot. Written in 1955 by English author Catherine Storr, Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf is a collection of short children's stories focusing on the adventures of a bright young girl named Polly and a dim-witted wolf with his heart set on eating her. Most of the stories follow a similar formula: The Wolf, inspired by a fairy story or folk tale, will hatch an overly complicated plan to catch Polly. Inevitably, Polly will already be familiar with the story and foil The Wolf's plan through the use of logic and by reminding him that they don't live in a storybook.PDF / EPUB File Name: Clever_Polly_and_the_Stupid_Wolf_-_Catherine_Storr.pdf, Clever_Polly_and_the_Stupid_Wolf_-_Catherine_Storr.epub My cousin had this when we were kids and we seriously listened to it so many times we knew big sections by heart and the tape eventually wore out ... highly recommend it to all who can find it!

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TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Friendly Enemy: The Wolf is so inept in attempting to eat Polly that she almost views him as a friend. For his own part, the Wolf's conversations with Polly are the only real interaction he seems to have with anyone.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. She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. They had three daughters, Sophia, Polly and Emma, but divorced in 1970. She later married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). [6]