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Pollyana
by Elinor Porter
Description:
One Of The All-Time Classics Of Children’s Literature, A Feel-Good Book Full Of Enthusiasm And Exuberance, And A Perfect Family Read. “There Is Something About Everything That You Can Be Glad About, If You Keep Hunting Long Enough To Find It.”
When Pollyanna Whittier’s Father Dies, She Is Sent To Live With Her Aunt Polly In Vermont.
About The Author
Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children’s literature, with the title character’s name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. Also, the subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as “Glad Books”, were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.
Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. Some of the best known are Disney’s 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role, and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford.
Skryf Review
Amazing read Pollyanna is an ever readable Classic Book and the first part of one of the numerous books written by Eleanor H Porter. Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up was by far the most famous and well loved of her books Pollyanna is the story of an orphan young girl of 11 years who is taken in by her stern and dutiful strict Aunt Polly. Pollyanna is ever happy inspite of all the difficulties and challenges she has had to face in life. Though she is a naughty and mischievous young girl Pollyanna with her endearing qualities and optimistic attitude slowly and surely she wins over her Aunt and all the people of the town that she has befriended on hereveryday travails in town.‘The Glad Game’ specially created by her father for her and then used by Pollyanna forms the main gist of the story. To be happy about all things in life however small they may be and finding happiness from it. I loved the story especially ‘The Glad Game’ and Pollyanna’s helping nature. The Game could work in our everyday life too if we could learn to appreciate the small gifts lessons bestowed to us.