The Complete Polly and the Wolf by Catherine Storr and Marjorie Ann Watts and Jill Bennett

When Catherine Storrs daughter was very small, she was afraid of the wolf under her bed, so every night her mother would tell her a story in which Polly outwitted the wolf. These bedtime stories eventually became the collectionClever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, a wonderfully thrilling and reassuring series of adventures in which the clever, independent, and unstoppable Polly fools the persistent, hungry young wolf time and again. In a match much like Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner but more polite and quick-witted, Polly and the wolf develop ever-more complicated ways of turning the tables on each other as they grow older and, in Pollys case at least, wiser. Three more collections of stories followed the originalClever Polly, all hilariously inventive variations on a much loved theme, and all of the stories are collected here for the first time.

Ages 5-12