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Certainly Pollyanna has a reputation for being overly sweet and good, but it was a pleasure to read this book aloud to my children, who were deeply in need of an introduction to the glad game. There is a lot that went over their heads, and they were both very upset that Pollyanna's recovery had no explanation and very little time in the novel. Otherwise, we all enjoyed this story and it was a good bedtime book. ( )

A pequena cidade de beldingsville, no interior dos estados unidos, nunca mais seria a mesma depois da chegada de pollyanna, uma garotinha órfã de 11 anos que ficou ao cuidados da tia rica, a irritadiça e intransigente senhora polly harrington. Com sua extraordinária visão de mundo a encantadora menina conquista os habitantes da cidadezinha e ensina a todos o seu incrível "jogo de constante", um jogo capaz de transformar vidas e modificar destinos. Publicada como livro em 1913, a historia da alegre e corajosa menina se tornou um clássico da literatura infanto-juvenil e vem cativando diferentes gerações de leitores com sua poderosa mensagem de otimismo e superação das dificuldades. E impossível não se encantar por pollyanna, um exemplo inesquecível de amor, amizade e de como ver sempre o lado bom da vida.

Rebecca Burns does a fine job narrating this children's classic. Overall, I enjoyed it but the (overly) optimistic Pollyanna character is a little grating and to my mind, completely unrealistic. If you thought Louisa May Alcott's books were too sweet, don't read these! ( )

First published in 1913! One of Ms. Gregorich's all-time favorite books! Pollyanna has gotten a bad rap!

I didn’t have high hopes going into this book. It was free on Kindle and I set myself a goal of reading more classics. I had heard of it but amazingly, hadn’t read it as a child. The synopsis really doesn’t do it justice. To me, it was magic. Pollyanna is an EXTRAORDINARY character. To say this is a story for children isn’t fair - I find that I enjoyed it far more as an adult than I would have as a child. ( )

Makes me think of:
Mother Vocal Album - 01 - Pollyanna (I Believe in You) ( )

More sanctimonious than I had recalled. Still, I was glad to revisit the "glad girl" and think more deeply about those times. ( )

This is such a beautiful and sweet story. ( )

If this were written today it would be used as the script of a Pixar film. Like a Pixar film it slides right through the hardened shell of the cynical adult and stabs you in heart.
Its about a little girl who always tries to look on the bright side. It would be truly unbearable to read if not for fact that everyone else in the story is sane, and reacts just as normal people would, its a wee bit like Forest Gump. Its just so damn cute... but in a good way.
The ending isn't the best as a certain climax level is reached which the last part of the story can't live up to but overall i was VERY surprised at how much i liked this. ( )

I have always loved classic children's literature and have read much of it. This particular book is one of my favorites and I think it is equally good when you it as an adult or as a child. The characters are engaging and realistic and the story draws you in. ( )

I have a soft spot for the book because I read it out loud to my daughter when she was young.

Pollyanna plays a game with her father called "The Glad Game," in which the two try to look on the bright side of every situation, and she takes the game with her when she goes to live with her aunt. Over the course of the book, she transforms the outlook of people living in her town, teaching them all to look on the bright side of life.

I was called Pollyanna as a kid at times. I can't remember if it was delivered as an insult or a compliment but I do remember wondering who that was. Now I know.
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“Well, if you don’t ask a lot of questions!” sighed the boy impatiently. (Jimmy Bean)
“I have to,” retorted Pollyanna calmly, “else I couldn’t find out at thing about you. If you’d talk more, I wouldn’t talk so much.” ( )

Cute story about a little girl's positivity that ultimately affects everyone in the community. ( )

Pollyanna is a book I had long desired to read but had never been able to find an actual copy. I was happy to finally get one somewhere. I had presumed that this was a young adult book but it's actually for adults and features Pollyanna as a literary character whom adults will have to test and appreciate for themselves after having read through the book. There was a sequel to Pollyanna written by Porter but I haven't found a copy of that yet.
The book itself is slow to develop the narrative but it is packed with details which have to be explained as the story unfolds. I was impressed with the organization of the book's 269 pages. I intentionally read it slowly to see what the author was intending to show or hide as important in such a short book.
The book describes (not addresses) class status, orphanage, social assistance societies, and Christian missionary work. Pollyanna's father was a poor missionary who gave her the idea for the Glad Game which is the main element of the book.
In the mind of Pollyanna then she uses this "coping mechanism" to help adjust to life without her mother, then to survive without her father and then to inspire the townspeople to apply this themselves to their own personal issues. The Glad Game is a method of comparison where people can see things to their advantage by imagining a worse situation from which they have been temporally saved. In terms of the communicative aspect of the Glad Game itself functions as a sort of Kantian categorical imperative for those who can accept the truth of the Gospel. It can used in almost any situation to make oneself feel better. There are two listed in the book where it doesn't help. This book is of course favorable to Christianity for inspiration.
A positive attitude is always a prerequisite for living in the world and so characters who share Polyanna's optimism are never far from everyone's personal experience. This hasn't become my favorite book but I found a connection to Pollyanna where I hadn't expected to see anything I could find memorable about her. ( )

This book was even more delightful this time than when I read it as a child. I started reading it because I was reading Adam Smith, and wanted something lighter to read that evening. I was soon hooked, and could hardly wait to finish reading it. I remembered enough of the story that I even had a bit of dread half knowing what would be coming later on. ( )

I loved Pollyanna. she gets a bad rap in pop cultural references, but she is sincere and has an optimistic outlook despite hardships and you really can't help but love her. note to self, try as a read aloud for J at maybe age....8? ( )

Selesai dalam satu hari :)
Suka sekali cerita model begini, ringan tetapi menyenangkan dan tidak membosankan. Membacanya membuat perasaan ceria, mata berkaca-kaca dan tersenyum sendiri XD ( )

I fell in love with little Pollyanna. One of my favorite fiction books for my kids to listen to as a read aloud.

Julia-5 stars
Seth-5 stars (He loved it and is very much like a little Pollyanna himself ❤️)
Christian - 1 1/2 stars (stink pot! Ha. I’m still very glad he listened to it)
Zacky - 3 1/2 stars
Me-3 1/2 stars ( )

One of my favorite childhood books. ( )

This was a surprisingly good book. Pollyanna is not an insipid character. Rather, she is a strong, young woman who makes a game of finding silver linings in gray clouds. But more importantly, by her irrepressibly, she brings a town full of repressed, early 20th-century Yankees, into people who begin to find themselves able to "count their blessings" (as my grandmother might say it). Pollyanna has a glad game. When something happens, she ponders what is it about that happening for which one can be glad? Sort of along the line, "I'm glad I had my accident, because it enabled two estranged lovers to reconnect". Well, it sounds a bit silly and saccharin, but Pollyanna has a way of making it more sensible.

Referring to someone as a Pollyanna has become, in our cynical society, a rather pejorative term. We now think of Pollyannas as being mindlessly cheerful and insipid. But if people could reconnect with the original Pollyanna, perhaps they'd see that being upbeat doesn't necessarily require one to be insipid.

The only real problem I had with this book, a cognitive one on my part, is that Pollyanna was continually referred to as being a "little girl". Well, she was 11. Even as late as the 1950s, girls of 11 were only removed by a year or two from the age at which their parents could marry them off in some states (like New Hampshire, for example). It's weird how our perceptions change.
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Unloved and unwanted, orphan Pollyanna Whittier boards an eastbound train to live with her Aunt Polly, a wealthy spinster. Aunt Polly treats the child insensitively, giving her a musty room in the attic and expecting her to keep quiet and stay out of the way. Pollyanna, with her optimistic outlook on life, turns all the lemons thrown her way into lemonade; punishments are viewed as rewards, unfriendly people in town are befriended. Pollyanna's "Glad Game" is soon played by all the people of the town. A terrible accident with a motor car as she is crossing the street finally breaks Pollyanna's spirit. When long-held secrets are finally revealed, even Aunt Polly comes around to warming up not only to her niece, but to a relationship she had long denied herself. ( )

I read Pollyanna just two weeks ago. It was the first time. I needed a relaxing book, I needed I guess a children's book maybe.I found it adorable, and it is very powerful because there is again an element that I love so badly to meet in the books I prefer: the capacity of a community to changing thanks to someone else. In this case the someone else is Pollyanna. I always try to be happy and cheerful. Pollyanna had the ability to being happy and joyous in every circumnstances of her life, in the darkest moments too. Let's try to being like her! Perhaps our life will become more rich of beautiful events.
Anna Maria

Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature. First published in 1913.

I read Pollyanna just two weeks ago. It was the first time. I needed a relaxing book, I needed I guess a children's book maybe.I found it adorable, and it is very powerful because there is again an element that I love so badly to meet in the books I prefer: the capacity of a community to changing thanks to someone else. In this case the someone else is Pollyanna. I always try to be happy and cheerful. Pollyanna had the ability to being happy and joyous in every circumnstances of her life, in the darkest moments too. Let's try to being like her! Perhaps our life will become more rich of beautiful events.
Anna Maria

Pollyanna was the daughter of a splendid young man, though he was very poor; and so was that mother, though she was pretty and kind. But when her father and her beautiful mother both die, the poor girl is left in the hands of her strict and dutiful aunt, Miss Polly Harrington, and Nancy, her impressed slave. Pollyanna, as a very optimistic girl, was overjoyed at the sight of that loving household, and decided to play ‘the game’ in it, too. ‘The game’, as you might want to know, was something her father had made up, where whatever you do, you must always find something to be glad of inside it, whether it isn’t shown straight away or not. Pollyanna was very happy with her new home; but then she encounters something so horrible that she wonders if she’ll ever feel glad about anything again.
I thought this book was really very brilliant, only it was pretty much only dialogue, and I must admit that I hate too much dialogue. Yet the characters spoke in such an old-fashioned and very intriguing way that I could no longer doubt my liking of the book. ( )