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kerryanndunn 's review for:
Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. Porter
"I wish I could prescribe her--and buy her--as I would a box of pills;--though if there gets to be many of her in the world, you and I might as well go to ribbon-selling and ditch-digging for all the money we'd get out of nursing and doctoring."
Pollyanna is a delight of a character with her always trying to be glad about everything. Her supreme optimism in the face of her life's hardships is endearing and inspiring, and sometimes slightly grating. Haha! It's the side characters in this though that I love just as much as Pollyanna: Nancy and Aunt Polly and Old Tom and Dr. Chilten and John Pendleton and Jimmy Bean and Mrs. Snow. All wonderful! All changed by one little girl touching their lives with her gladness.
I know the Hayley Mills film almost by heart and the differences from the book to the film are very interesting. There are some things where the book is better and some things where the film is better. But each is precious in their own way simply for the character of Pollyanna herself.
Pollyanna is a delight of a character with her always trying to be glad about everything. Her supreme optimism in the face of her life's hardships is endearing and inspiring, and sometimes slightly grating. Haha! It's the side characters in this though that I love just as much as Pollyanna: Nancy and Aunt Polly and Old Tom and Dr. Chilten and John Pendleton and Jimmy Bean and Mrs. Snow. All wonderful! All changed by one little girl touching their lives with her gladness.
I know the Hayley Mills film almost by heart and the differences from the book to the film are very interesting. There are some things where the book is better and some things where the film is better. But each is precious in their own way simply for the character of Pollyanna herself.