Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

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As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The glad game she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how to feel glad about it.

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Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable - until one day something so terrible happens that even Pollyanna doesn't know how ot feel glad about it.
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist. She was born in 1868 in Littleton, New Hampshire. She was trained as a singer, attending the New England Conservatory for several years. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts, after which she began writing and publishing her short stories and, later, novels. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1920, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Neil Reed has been an illustrator for more than twenty years and has illustrated novels such as Goodnight, Mr Tom and What Katy Did. As well as illustrating, Neil enjoys landscape design and painting. He currently lives in Cornwall.
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ISBN 13 9780140366822
ISBN 10 0140366822
Title Pollyanna
Author Eleanor Porter
Series Puffin Classics Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published 1994-10-27
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.