If there's no child handy, read it to your Teddy!! (Pollyanna Grows Up - Eleanor H. Porter)

Member Name: witchwaysup

Product:	Pollyanna Grows Up - Eleanor H. Porter
Date:	26/03/02 (267 review reads)
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Advantages: Uplifting, Fun, Escapist

Disadvantages: You need to be able to read or have someone to read it to you.

Anyone out there who read the Pollyanna story as a child or had that read to them will find this book every bit as entrancing.

There is this daft notion amongst some adults that you can only read childrens books to children and not just for your own escapist pleasure. Nonsense! Whilst not an outright cure for all the woes of this world, a childrens book can often reach the parts no other book can reach, in a nice easy flowing, easy going way.

I've not been writing for quite a while, y'know, one thing and another etc., as a result, I had loads of time on my hands and little to occupy me. One of my problems made it very hard to concentrate on anything for long, which made reading a good option as I could start and stop reading whenever I wanted. One of the last reviews I read, quite by chance, was Grimsbygals review of this book...... and that's just another thing to be 'glad' about!

Okeydokey, so you want to hear about the book and not me do you? Fairynuff. This book effortlessly picks up where the original Pollyanna book left off. I never knew it existed until I read the review late last year, and I can't help wondering if I would have seen it in a different light as a child had I read it straight after the first Pollyanna book, of course now I shall never know.

In the same way that this story leads Pollyanna into maturity I have moved on somewhat between the books, I have almost growed up!

Pollyanna still has the 'glad' game off to a 'T' (or 'tee' I'm not quite sure which!), and her naivety is somewhat preserved by her being transposed into a city area amongst strangers and a situation quite alien to her.

The difference with this book is that Pollyanna has large chunks of 'real life' thrown at her and shows how the older Pollyanna deals with these chunks in her own unique way.

There is an undercurrent of intrigue in this book which had me going
back for more as often as I could to see how it all panned out.

This is not a story to overlook. If you missed it as a child go get it from the library now. YES, that IS an order! If you don't already know the Pollyanna story get that out too and read it first (you poor underprivileged child you!).

The good news is this. If you haven't got a child or two to read this to you CAN still read this..... read it to your teddy, dog or cat if you feel silly reading it to yourself (though your cat/dog/teddy may feel a bit silly but that's their problem!) Once you have read this you may find yourself visiting friends with kids just to have the excuse to read it to them. Go with this feeling, spread a little happiness!

Whatever you read in the next few weeks, if you haven't read this, read it and lift yourself out of the winter doldrums into the spring back in your step towards the summer of love (not forgetting the autumn of your life). Oh goodness these headache pills are good aren't they???

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