Catherine Storr

Marianne Dreams (Faber Children's Classics)

The Mirror Image Ghost

The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf

Lisa is sure she has seen a ghost in her mother's bedroom mirror, but who can she tell? Her grandparents are oddly secretive about ghosts and the past, her mother seems distant since her recent marriage, and Lisa definitely can't confide in her new stepsister and stepbrother - she loathes them! As Lisa explores further she unravels some truths about her family's history and begins to look at herself and those closest to her in a new light.

Marianne and Mark

Hugo and His Grandma's Washing Day

Hugo and His Grandma

The Boy and the Swan

SUMMARY: A fifteen-year-old girl tries to find a way of helping an emotionally troubled boy.

Thursday

A powerful and haunting classic about a girl haunted by her own dreams.Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone. The boy at the window is called Mark, and his every movement is guarded by the menacing stone watchers that surround the solitary house. Together, in their dreams, Marianne and Mark must save themselves...The perfect gift for girls aged 8+, this well-loved classic will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list.

Marianne Dreams

A modern classic about a girl who finds that the pictures she draws while she is ill come alive in her dreams. Adapted for the screen as the feature film 'Paperhouse'.

Originally published as Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf, the wolf is back again and determined to eat Polly. He set up all kinds of traps to try and get her into his clutches, but Polly is just too clever for him - until one day when things take a very unexpected turn - perhaps the stupid wolf is not quite so stupid after all...!

Polly and the Wolf Again

Vicky and Stephen . . . find they have an inexplicable ability to see momentary flashes of the near future, most of which foretell all too clearly the developments of a very unpleasant plot. In the face of daunting scepticism, they persist in using their extra-sensory insight to track down the villains. This is an exciting and complex novel.

The Chinese Egg

Chris Molan

Joseph and His Brothers

The very funny stories of Clever Polly and the stupid wolf, gathered together in one volume, including Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Polly and the Wolf Again, Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf and More Stories of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. 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!

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

The classic fairy tale about a princess put to sleep by a magic spell is set to easy-to-play piano music from Tchaikovsky's opera.

Easy Piano Picture Book

The Sleeping Beauty

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Rip Van Winkle

Kathy and Claire are two sisters working for their O and A level exams, who go away for a holiday to the Dordogne in France with their parents. By chance, they meet Val and Steve, two university students, who are on a working holiday in the same area. Mutual attractions develop which throw Claire and Steve together and Kathy, much to her surprised pleasure, finds herself partnered with Val. However, the early pleasures of these relationships disintegrate as the story progresses. In the end, the tragedy of the situation is that none of the relationships is satisfactory or happy, including the one between Val and Steve ... Catherine Storr's very real story has love and humour as well as tragedy, and every reader will be moved by it.

Two's Company

POLLY AND THE WOLF AGAIN by Catherine Storr is the second book of stories written for the author's daughter, who was scared of the wolf under the bed. The blundering, endearing wolf is still determined to prove himself cleverer than Polly - but the resolute and affectionate Polly outwits him every time! Skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm.

Catherine Storr

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