潔魯夏‧阿波特(Jerusha Abbot)是名十八歲的孤兒,大家都叫她茱蒂,就在她準備離開孤兒院獨自生活之際,意外出現一位善心的神秘贊助人,願意資助她上大學,唯一的條件是她每個月要寫一封信,報告她的生活。不料她充滿坦率、幽默與想像力的信,深深吸引了這位神秘的仰慕者。他到底是誰?從寫給長腿叔叔的76封信,告訴我們這個有趣故事。
Jerusha Abbot has spent all her 18 years in an orphanage. Just when they were about to send her out into the world on her own, a benev-olent Trustee offered to pay her way through college. The only con-dition was that she had to write regularly and report on her progress. Little did she know that her humor, honesty and wit have captivated a secret admirer. Who is he and who is the trustee whose name she doesn’t know? Her letters addressed to Daddy-Long-Legs tell the story.