Daddy-Long-Legs

A lady at church handed me this book a few weeks ago and said that it had been her mother's and she thought I would enjoy reading it. She was absolutely right. The copy she gave me had been printed in the 1950's, but it has been reissued since and can be found on Amazon.com and used book stores (which is where I bought my copy).

The easiest way to describe this book is to say that if Anne of Green Gables had been written by Grace Livingston Hill, this book would be the result. Jerusha Abbot, the main character, is an orphan who unexpectedly receives a gift from one of the trustees at the orphanage. He will pay for her to go to college if she will write him a letter once a month. She has no idea who he is and is to send her letters via his secretary. She ends up calling him Daddy-Long-Legs because all she has ever seen of him was his shadow, which was very long and spindly. The book mostly consists of the letters she wrote to him, which are extremely funny and charming. If you've read any of GLH's books, you may be able to guess the ending already, but it's fun getting there!