Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter

Well, I wanted to start writing about the books with a more mature(the nearest adjective...adult/serious/heavy being the other options) book. But may be this is better in a way.
I found about "Pollyanna" when I am googling about some one/some thing or when I am browsing my most favourite online book site "classicbookshelf.com". It is about a girl of eleven years who, when orphaned, goes to live with her some what strict/exacting maternal aunt. Pollyanna's mother dies in her childhood and she was living with her father whose death leaves her to her aunts mercy. This aunt, though willing enough to take her in, looks at her only as an obligation and is not too happy about the situation. She puts her up in a small unattractive attic room and fits her up with new wardrobe and fixes her hours for sewing/cooking/lessons/music and thinks her duty is done by her niece.
But this small lonely kid longs for love from her fellow human beings. She's brought up my her missionary father to be "GLAD" in all the situations no matter how bleak it may seem to be. In fact, she's thought to make a play out of this glad business. This child goes around happy and jumping and spreading this game around the town. She touches and brings out changes in lot of families around but is still on constrained terms with her aunt. Finally, she meets with an accident and while she's on bed, many towns people to come to visit her and through them, the aunt comes to know about the game and how much the child's innocent game has influenced the lives around her. The book ends with a happy note when Pollyanna starts walking again and her aunt is reconciled to her and to her former admirer and marrys him.
I know that the above passages are not much of an insight into the book. but you have wikipedia for that.... what made me like the book is, the simplicity of the text, narration and the idea of the Glad game. It's a really good thought to always look to the positive side of things no matter what the situation it may. At some points, it's really heart rendering when the gild tries to be glad about having to sleep with her aunt. The poor child thinks it is a favour.
On the whole it is a good book for kids and even an adult might some times get a lesson out of it some day. It is always good to see the silver line of the cloud.