书名：Pollyanna波利安娜

读者对象：9-11岁
作者：Eleanor H. Porter
出版社名称：Alma Classics
出版时间：2017
语种：英文
ISBN：9781847496409
商品尺寸：13.2 x 2.2 x 20 cm
包装：平装
页数：288 （以实物为准）

★美国著名童话作家埃丽诺·霍奇曼·波特的成名作，几乎在一夜间畅销全美——发行就超过百万册！

★被翻译成世界各国语言，影响深远。
★《波利安娜》带来的不仅仅是关于波利安娜这个小姑娘的故事，更重要的是向读者传递了一种积极的人生观。

都说一个人的性格源于童年成长时期。在Pollyanna《波利安娜》中，快乐女孩将会陪你成长，陪你做一个“快乐游戏”；在你伤心沮丧的时候，她会悄悄告诉你快乐藏在哪儿。正如波利安娜所言，只要你愿意寻找生活中美好的一面，你就一定会找到。

推荐理由：
1. 这是一本畅销百年的成长小说，是塑造孩子积极乐观精神的良师益友；
2. 插图生动形象，内容幽默有趣，在快乐游戏中收获感动与温暖；
3. 阅读难度适中，有利于提升孩子的英语水平，可作为中小学生课外英文读物使用；
4. 书末有作者（The Writer）、书籍（The Book）、书中角色（The Character）等的介绍，还有一篇选择题测试（Test Yourself），可检验读者对全书内容是否真正理解。

The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna's exuberance and positivity affect everyone who meets her, and she spreads joy and love wherever she goes. But when tragedy strikes, Pollyanna finds her optimistic attitude tested, and she must learn to find happiness again.

A heartwarming tale that has become one of the most loved children's stories of all time, Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 best-seller – the first in a long series of Pollyanna novels by the author and other writers – is a beautiful story with a powerful moral message.

Review
"The classic tale of a glad-hearted little orphan girl whose positive take on the most adverse circumstance is a lesson for us all." -- Sunday Times

波利安娜虽然才十一岁，但命运坎坷。她经历了贫穷潦倒、靠别人施舍过活的童年窘境，经历了父母早早离世、沦为孤儿的悲惨遭遇，经历了亲人不近人情的百般责难，后来又经历了突如其来的车祸的无情打击。然而，这个小女孩在种种不幸面前却能始终保持乐观精神，用父亲生前教她的“快乐游戏”来忘却烦恼，把生活中令她痛苦的事都转化为快乐的事，并让她周围的人也体会到人生到处都充满着快乐。她用自己的灿烂微笑去感染身边的每一个人，用自己的爱心去关怀和帮助亲人与朋友。她的乐观精神感动了她身边所有人，感动了整个小镇。
埃丽诺·霍奇曼·波特（Eleanor Hodgeman Porter），美国著名童话作家，出生于新罕布什尔州的一个小镇，年轻时曾是当地有名的歌手；1901年波特放弃歌唱生涯，正式开始写作，1913年创作出了一个家喻户晓的小说人物：波利安娜。波特后来还创作了《波利安娜》的续集《波利安娜长大了》，同样引起轰动。波特的其他作品还有《比利小姐》、《比利小姐的决定》、《潮转》等。

American novelist Eleanor H. Porter(1868–1920) is best known for her hugely popular novel
Pollyanna, which was a bestseller during her lifetime and has now become a children's classic.

MISS POLLYHARRINGTON entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly

did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But today she was hurrying— actually hurrying.
Nancy, washing dishes at the sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly’s kitchen only two months,but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
“Nancy!”
“Yes, ma’am,” Nancy answered cheerfully, but she still continued wiping the pitcher in her hand. “Nancy” — Miss Polly’s voice was very stern now — “when I’m talking to you, I wish you tostop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
Nancy flushed miserably. She set the pitcher down at once, with the cloth still about it, thereby nearly tipping it over — which did not add to her composure.
“Yes,ma’am; I will, ma’am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily. “I was only keepin’ on with my work ’cause you specially told me this mornin’ ter hurry with my dishes, ye know”
Her mistress frowned.
“That will do, Nancy. I did not ask for explanations. I asked for your attention.”
“Yes, ma’am.” Nancy stifled a sigh. She was wondering if ever in any way she could please this woman. Nancy had never “worked out” before; hut a sick mother, suddenly widowed and left with three younger children besides Nancy herself, had forced the girl into doing something towards their support, and she had been so pleased when shefound a place in the kitchen of the great house on the hill — Nancy had come from “The Corners”, six miles away, and she knew Miss Polly Harrington only as the mistress of the old Harrington homestead, and one of the wealthiest residents of the town. That was two months before. She knew Miss Polly now as a stern, severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door hanged —but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
“When you’ve finished your morning work, Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed. Sweep the room and clean it, of course, after you clear out the trunks and boxes.”