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Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is the first in a series of nine novels following the enchanting Anne Shirley through her life. Anne has inspired generations of little girls across the country and throughout the world, myself included, to be whimsical dreamers who look at the world through technicolour glasses and approach even the most dire of situations with unbounded enthusiasm and positivity.
Anne arrives as an unexpected orphan to the home of
brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert in Avonlea, Prince Edward
Island. The misadventures and follies that follow are those that only a young
girl with a flowery imagination, flair for the dramatic and magnet for mischief
can get herself into. Their gift of a safe, stable home and opportunity to be a
carefree child allow Matthew and Marilla to instill the old fashioned Canadian
values (you know, before Kellie Leitch got a hold of them) that turn Anne into
not only a respected daughter of their family but of their entire community.
Reading the melodic prose of a young girl brimming with
energy and the rich descriptions of maritime landscapes transports me back to being
the young girl who first read Anne of Green Gables swaying in her grandparent’s
hammock on a carefree summer afternoon. While
most of my reading is now done on a train racing into the city to a very
serious, very grown up job, a few minutes with Anne and I am in a world where
even the smallest puddle could be a Lake of Shining Waters and a White Way of
Delight awaits ‘round every bend in the road.
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