Higgins told a story about Pollyanna, the over-optimistic girl who ended up falling out of a tree.
The Betsy Ross design of 13-star U.S. flags has been featured in many popular artworks (sometimes inaccurately, as in Washington Crossing the Delaware) and films, such as the 1960 version of Pollyanna.
Her current project is writing a musical of the 1913 Eleanor H. Porter novel Pollyanna.
It is the first of many sequels to Porter's best-selling Pollyanna (1913), but is the only one written by Porter herself; the numerous later additions to the Pollyanna franchise were the work of other authors.
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent (Pollyanna McIntosh), are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh.
Her fictional novels often follow the same formual as the Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm series, in which a young girl, often an orphan, tries to improve the lives of adults through pluck and daring.
Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter.