What a treat to read ANNE OF GREEN GABLES as Lucy Maub Montgomery saw it in publication. The original art and all of the proof reading mistakes are here in this 100th year republication, but don’t let the mistakes spoil this classic tale of Anne with an E as she becomes an essential part of Matthew and Ismirella Cuthbert life. She may have been an accident – they wanted a boy – made by the orphanage, but Anne is exactly what the older, unmarried siblings needed. Green Gables is full of life and love because of this chatty red-headed young girl with an extraordinary capacity of love and imagination.

Life with Anne is an adventure and never dull as the other volumes show readers. She is like all of us with our child-like need to be loved and wanted, a place to belong. Maub Montgomery created a wonderfully good character that I related to all throughout my life. I am an Anne with an E, adopted into my forever family when I was a baby with strawberry blonde hair, chatty, imaginative, strong, and always finding myself in trouble just as Anne Shirley.