Pollyanna Collection: Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up

Pollyanna Collection: Pollyanna and Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter

This version of the first two Pollyanna books credits one of the same narrators from Librivox. I wonder if they just lifted it and cleaned out the librivox credits. Or maybe the narrator redid it. It is nowhere to be found on Amazon, though they do have the first two Pollyanna books separately. They both deal with the "glad" game. Pollyanna finds the good in everything and makes everyone happy.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna is the eternal optimist. Her parents have died and she has gone to live with her aunt (who does not like children.) Pollyanna sees everything positively. She even thanks her aunt for the punishments received. She befriends other people around town, including the man that will not talk to anybody. She brightens up everyone's day. Near the end, she gets into an accident and breaks her leg. One doctor says she will never walk again. This causes her to enter a funk where she can't think of positive things. Everyone in the town rallies around her and talks about how she had helped them and tries to help her. She gets out of the funk and then learns that she may be able to work. It is a very positive book.

Pollyanna Grows Up

Pollyanna goes to live with a rich lady in Boston while her Aunt travels. She struggles with the closed nature of the people in the city. However, she makes friends with some of the "street kids", much to the chagrin of the lady of the house. One day, she takes the lady to visit a cripple in a tenement. The rich lady wonders if this is her lost nephew. She also sees that the house is in poor condition and then seems to realize that she is the owner. She makes sure it is good. She later asks to adopt the boy because she thinks it might be her relation. He refuses because she doesn't truly care for him. Later she begins to care more for the poor kids and their abilities and he allows her to be adopted. Many years later, Pollyanna's aunt has come on hard times. They end up letting the rich lady and some kids board. There are some love triangles and pride of the crippled boy. Pollyanna's aunt refuses to let Pollyanna mary the boy she likes because he has an unknown pedigree. However, he opens documents to find he is the long lost nephew of the rich lady. It ends with a number of engagements and marriages.