From the 1940 Grossett & Dunlap edition of Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, originally published in 1912: The first thing every young reader will want to know about this collection by L.M. Montgomery is whether Anne Shirley appears in this collection of stories of Avonlea and Spencervale.

She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: “Anne Shirley was curled up on the window seat of Theodore Dix’s sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair star land behind the hills of sunset …” Read More→

From  the 1940 Grossett & Dunlap edition of Anne of Avonlea, the 1909 sequel to Anne of Green Gables: 

“A tall, slim girl, ‘half-past sixteen’ with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse …”

So began this gentle and much-loved sequel to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. Five years have passed since the orphan girl Anne Shirley came to the childless home of siblings Matthew and Marilla , bringing with her all of the joy and love of her generous nature.

She has come back to Avonlea to teach school in the same village school where she herself was taught. Teaching in neighboring village schools are her friends Diana Berry, Jane Andrews, Priscilla Gray, and Gilbert Blythe. Read More→