Anne of the Island Buy a copy of Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables) from amazon today Rating 5 stars – another heartwarming book in the Green Gables saga Description Anne Shirley goes to Redmond College, where she makes new friends, including the handsome Roy Gardner, whose attentions to her make her old friend Gilbert Blythe very jealous. Why did you choose to read this book? I’m revisiting the Green Gables series for a...

Anne of Avonlea – buy a copy today Rating 5 stars – the feisty red-head returns Description Five years after coming to Green Gables, Anne is ‘half past sixteen’ and about to start teaching at her old school, set on inspiring youthful minds and hearts with ideals and ambitions. But some of her pupils only respond to very different methods. Meanwhile the young orphan Davy and the Avonlea Improvement Society bring...

Treat yourself to Anne of Green Gables today Rating 5 stars – I enjoyed this re-read as much as I did the first time I read the book Description Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They are waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables – but a skinny, red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts’ affection with her vivid...

Why not treat yourself to a copy of Before Green Gables Rating 5 stars – it could have been written by L.M. Montgomery herself Description A must-read for generations of book lovers. This remarkable, and heart-warming prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L.M. Montgomery’s heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel. Before Green Gables is the story of...

Image via Wikipedia One hundred years ago this month Lucy Maud Montgomery held in her hands a novel about a red headed orphan who came to live on Prince Edward Island: “There, in my hand, lay the material realization of all the dreams and hopes and ambitions and struggles of my whole conscious existence — my first book,” she wrote in her journal that day. “Not a great book, but mine, mine, mine, something which I...