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Summary: This book is now more important than ever.
Review: This book so effected me as a child, to this day, many many years later the phrase, "If you look for the good, you will find it" still serves as a valuable reminder for how we can effect our realitiy with our personal perspectives. This little girl, Pollyanna, teaches other children how to play the glad game in a wonderful and engaging story. Too few children today, know how to recognize or be happy. They haven't learned the "glass is half full" thinking. This book is a great spiritual guide, without trying to be one. Please read it and discuss it with your child. You'll both be happier. Thanks.
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Summary: A absolutly wounderful book!
Review: This book was very entertaining. I love Pollyanna's charecter. I think the book is even better than the movie! Pollyanna is about a girl and her adventures in a little town. She moved in with her aunt Polly. Read Pollyanna! It's a great book!
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Summary: The story of a brave girl who never loses her optimism
Review: This is a touching story of an orphan who's life is going wrong, but she has the courage to remain
optimistic no matter what. Her father dies,
and she must live with an aunt who hates kids, but she remains optimistic. She falls
off a tree and paralyzes herself and remains
optimistic. Her optimism is truly inspirational
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Summary: Let's play Pollyanna's Glad Game
Review: This is one of my favorite children's books because it tells a great truth. Finding something to be glad about isn't always easy, but it's better than sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. I'm far from mastering this Glad Game, but Pollyanna makes me want to try harder to be GLAD, and less often to be sad.
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Summary: Very disappointing ... So unlike Hayley Mills' Pollyanna!
Review: This is the very FIRST time that I had liked a movie so much more than the book. The book got a "one-star" rating only because I believe more people should play the Glad Game. However, ....a very "gaggy" book. Pollyanna, as portrayed by the author, was rather an annoying little girl. Until the incidents of finding and bringing home the stray kitten and puppy , I was able make excuses for the author and why her book even got published in the first place: the book came out in the late 20's, not a very happy time for anyone. However, when Pollyanna brought the kitten, and then the dog, home and talked nonstop about Aunt Polly's "kindness" (when none had been shown, yet), Aunty couldn't stop her from keeping those animals. Aunt Polly couldn't even get a word in edgewise! Then the comment Pollyanna made to Mrs. Snow about how she liked looking at pretty people and felt "sorry for the other kind" ... really! What should little children think after reading that, especially the "other kind" (not pretty)? In a society where values are becoming more and more shallow, judging people based on their looks and the kind of cars they drive, this book should be banned! Children: Go watch Disney's Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills. This Pollyanna is a very sweet girl.
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Summary: Interesting if cliched characters, but too cutesy
Review: This review of the book Pollyanna may be affected by the fact that it's being written by a boy, but let me say first that I enjoyed the Disney film version with Hayley Mills. I just didn't like the book as much. It's really nothing more than your average "irrepresible orphan turns everything upside-down" story, and like most of them, it's filled with cliches and is blatantly unrealistic, not to mention cloyingly cute. I could not stand the character of Pollyanna; she spent too much time chatting her mouth off and misinterpreting every cold act of her aunt's as an expression of love to really make an impression on me with her "glad game." While the characters are somewhat interesting, they're all stereotypes: the cold, unloving mother figure (in this case an aunt), the kind doctor who spends too much time with his patients to blot out an unhappy personal life, the embittered millionaire with a secret, the hypochondriac, grumpy invalid. It's so easy to notice these stereotypes that it makes everything so much less real than it already is. The movie was different in that it was completely believeable, thanks to the talented cast and the calm, subtle playing of Hayley Mills, who actually made a difference and had an obvious, BELIEVEABLE effect on the town without drowning us in cuteness. Get the movie; forget the book.
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Summary: A must, at any age.
Review: When I started to read Pollyanna,I feared it would be a mushy tearjerker. It isn't.Of course it is sentimental and can reduce you to tears, but what is wrong with that. Apart from the tears there is also a grim. almost satyrical sense of humour, considerable depth and a lot of sound psychology. The portrayal of turn-of-the-century philanthropy is scathing. Pollyanna is not naive. She knows there is pain and suffering, in fact she knows all about it. She may be an angel, but she is a very shrewd angel with a real grasp of the power of her own goodness.This makes the book really funny in a way that only a really thoughtfull book can be. If you can take some Victorian semtimentalisms for granted and if you are not a cynic, you should read it, whatever your age. And if you are a cynic you may never know how much you need to read this.
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