About the Book: Pollyanna
"There is something about everythingthat you can be glad about, if you
keephunting long enough to find it."In a stuffy attic without carpets, she is
delighted by the view fromthe high windowWhen offered a meal of bread and milk
with the servant as apunishment, she is elated and thankfulThats Pollyanna. The
orphaned eleven-year-old who has movedto live with her cold and stern maiden
aunt, Polly, after her fathersdeath.She calls it the glad game. Her father had
come up with it oneChristmas, when instead of a doll she had found only a pair
ofcrutches in the missionary barrel-being glad for we didnt needto use