Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf

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John Rowe Townsend, Written for Children. London and Harmondsworth: Penguin, ed. 3, 1987. ISBN 0-14-010688-X 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: Julia Eccleshare, "Storr, Catherine", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition, Oxford: OUP, January 2005 accessed 28 June 2008 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8989 Ocr_module_version 0.0.7 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19886 Openlibrary_edition 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).

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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. 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. 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] Townsend (1987), 246, " Marianne Dreams is strong stuff for children of the fairly low age-group (about nine to twelve) for which I have seen it suggested. But I would not say it is unsuitable. The realization that we all have power for evil must come some time, and could take far more disturbing forms than this."urn:lcp:cleverpollystup00stor:epub:88d809ec-85f4-4d9c-b74a-234064c46cdc Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cleverpollystup00stor Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t54f5f588 Invoice 1213 Isbn 0571180116 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22324333M Openlibrary_edition Storr, Catherine (1970). "Fear and evil in children's books". Children's Literature in Education. 1: 22–40. doi: 10.1007/BF01140654. S2CID 143753098. urn:oclc:863446731 Republisher_date 20150919060055 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20150915060650 Scanner scribe13.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) 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. At nine years old I had moved into a slightly bigger room, and this smaller one had become a junk room, or book room, or study, depending how kind you want to be. There is also an old printer, a vacuum cleaner and a roll of carpet in there, but “book room” still suits it best, as all the walls are covered in shelves and all the shelves are stuffed with books, and it was between a copy of Tom’s Midnight Garden and a set of Ladybird fairytale books that I rediscovered Catherine Storr’s Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.

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a b Eccleshare (2005) gives the date of her death as 8 January; Eccleshare (2001) and Thwaite (2001) give it as 6 January. 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. Storr practised as a psychiatrist during the 1950s and 60s and was inspired to write the stories by her second daughter, saying in 1970: “I wrote them to amuse Polly … she was one of the children who always had a wolf under the bed and she was frightened of it.” Storr later became an editor at Penguin, and wrote more than 100 books, almost all for young readers, as well as essays about psychology, touching on subjects such as abortion and the way Freud had burdened parents with unnecessary guilt, and there is a prudence to her stories where blame or guilt are concerned. Victim-blamers could learn a thing or two from this book. 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. So sure is she of her superior cleverness that she even invites the wolf to eat her up (he begs for a tiny bit of toffee first). PDF / EPUB File Name: Clever_Polly_and_the_Stupid_Wolf_-_Catherine_Storr.pdf, Clever_Polly_and_the_Stupid_Wolf_-_Catherine_Storr.epub Storr's books often involve confronting fears, even in the lighthearted Polly stories, and she was aware that she wrote frightening stories. [9] On the subject, she writes: [10] "We should show them that evil is something they already know about or half know. It's not something right outside themselves and this immediately puts it, not only into their comprehension, but it also gives them a degree of power".

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Storr continued writing novels into her eighties. [3] She died at her London flat in January 2001. [1] Work [ edit ] urn:lcp:cleverpollystupi0000stor_o0y0:epub:230977d1-7b8c-46d3-8f37-3a87ce9634a2 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cleverpollystupi0000stor_o0y0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5gc1t09z Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780141360232 Why Don't You Just Eat Her? - The wolf keeps coming up with elaborate plans to catch Polly, from disguising himself as the postman to playing a game of 'touch wood' with her (so long as she's touching the trees she's safe.) One wonders why he didn't merely grab her and eat her.