![]() ![]() However, her stay in Beldingsville doesn’t last long – Dr. Pollyanna is able to walk again and has returned home to live with Aunt Polly and Aunt Polly’s husband, Dr. The story picks up about two years after the end of Pollyanna. In that respect, it rather reminded me of An Old-Fashioned Girl, because the first half of the story is Pollyanna when she is younger, and then the second half of the book skips ahead six or seven years to Pollyanna around the age of 20. Pollyanna Grows Up is a book of two halves. ![]() But Pollyannadid just that, and, two years after she published the original, Porter produced a sequel for her young heroine. ![]() I could be completely wrong, but I genuinely doubt that Porter had any idea that her little book about a girl who tries to be glad no matter circumstances would become a wildly popular classic. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott). ![]() Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). ![]()
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