Children’s chapter book. Find something to be glad about every day!

reading this made me smile the whole time. I'm GLAD I read it!

The simple story revolves around being glad, its a game her dad invented, to be glad for anything and everything. And that is what I loved about the story. if you are glad the glass is a little fuller, the colors are little brighter, the grass is a little greener. it challanges you to see the good in every bad, the light in every dark.the glad game will change you and shape who you are, if you let it.
I recommend this story for all the kids, and adults with an open mind and a child's heart.

In the already-saccharine genre of "unwanted little girl transforms the life of well-known curmudgeon" literature, Pollyanna stands out as possibly the MOST saccharine.

I said possibly. There are a lot of candidates for the throne, after all. But good grief. It's hard to even imagine anything more twee, if people at the turn of the century could do twee.

The glad game swamps the ENTIRE book. The entire book is just Pollyanna explaining the glad game to sixteen different neighbors. Then the author blatantly handwaves a mysterious accident for the pathos, milks the pathos shamelessly, and uses it to simultaneously untangle the star-crossed love of both Pollyanna's aunt's AND her mother's old beaus. AND THEN handwaves the miraculous cure, while deigning to discuss zero medical facts the entire time.

The whole thing is a bold, bold move.

It's an easy read, and yes I will be back again many more times I'm sure. Quality-wise I want to give this three stars, but here I am, re-reading it for the bazillionth time and I had a blast yet again. So what is the truth?

Almost every other "unwanted girl vs. curmudgeon" genre book offers deeper content, but there is certainly something uniquely enjoyable about this one.

July 2023. Children’s classic.

I’m behind on posting because what else is new? I listened to this last week as one of those famous old children’s classics I’d never read, as it was something simple I could listen to off and on while analyzing data for work.

It was incredibly annoying. Like I’m not saying Pollyanna deserves to suffer for being so cheerful, but she drove me bonkers. Don’t particularly recommend. The audacity of sticking her nose into everyone’s business relentlessly day after day until they all got cheerful and fell in love etc.

Listened to on audiobook with the Libby app with my library card.

“Pollyanna” by Eleanor H. Porter.

A true classic in every sense of the word. There is a reason why Pollyanna has stood the test of time, despite being published in 1913. This book is the OG of curmudgeon and found family literature. It will make your heart glow with warmth, even if you were born with a heart three sizes too small. Pollyanna is so pure and generous with her joy. Everyone can learn something from her simple yet inspiring message to find something ‘glad’ about every adverse or negative situation - certainly a welcome reminder for me in my own life. 4.5 rounded down to 4

I love that book,especially Pollyanna's game.

I read this start to finish in one sitting and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was only afterwards as I thought about it that I felt vaguely unsatisfied, as though it had all been wrapped up a little too neatly. Still, a lovely book. If you like Anne of Green Gables, you will probably like Pollyanna as well.