I loved this story collection, despite being completely the wrong age for it. Polly outsmarts the stupid wolf every time, but he earnestly keeps trying to eat her. He is a lot like Wile E. Coyote, although less violent, and it just never works out for him. Clever Polly rather likes him, and often helps him out of difficult situations, and by the end of the book they are friends as well as foes. But of course she is never silly enough to trust him. He is, after all, a wolf. The illustrations match the feel of the story, and it is hard not to love this foolish wolf. According to the back cover, Storr started telling these as bedtime stories to her daughter who was afraid of the wolf under the bed, and they have that feel. Short, simple, funny, and reassuring, these would be great to read aloud. ( )