This has to be the most depressing of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne's daughter, Rilla, does some serious growing up when her brothers go to fight in WWI.
I really didn't like Rilla in the beginning, and it was a while before I realized that we're not really supposed to. As Rilla grows up and deals with the results of war, I started to respect her. She moves from a silly, vain little girl to a responsible, brave young woman.
I was shocked at first when Walter died, but after his letter arrives and he discuses how many horrible things he's seen, it's clear he would always be unhappy if he lived.
Sad, but beautiful all the same. A different sort of Anne of Green Gables book.

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Rilla, Anne Shirley's youngest daughter, discovers the problems and difficulties of coming of age during the terrifying days of World War I.

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This book in the Anne of Green Gables series is all about the children. Some about Anne's children, but mostly about their friends, the motherless children of the preacher.
Again, the antics of the children are portrayed in such a sweet light that it's hard to think of them even as silly. She perfectly describes childhood reasoning.
Everything works out perfectly on Prince Edward Island. Beautiful kind people find beautiful kind people and everyone ends up happy. Normally I dislike that kind of sentimentality, but it's nice to read something every so often with a kind ending.

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Anne of Green Gables has grown up, but Rainbow Valley holds a special magic for Anne and Gilbert's offspring, the Blythe children. It is a refuge from adult eyes where they share secrets and plan adventures. It is there they meet the Merediths, the new minister's children, and become close friends...and begin the search for a wife for the minister...

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A young girl risks losing her mother to find her father, an imaginary lover comes to town for real, and a ghost teaches the true meaning of love, in this collection of Avonlea adventures.

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The first thing every young reader will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencerville. 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 Theodora Dix's sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation...The charm of Anne of the Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea is to be found on every page of this gently sentimental and enjoyably humorous book even when Anne, herself, is absent.

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The series shifts from focusing on Anne and her relationships with the people around her to centered on her children. I miss the focus on Anne, since most of the charm of the story is her dealing with situations humorously.
But Montgomery really captures so much of the essence of childhood in the vignettes about the Blythe children. She describes their sulks, fear, elation. Reading the stories, I vividly remembered what it as like to be that age. Maybe I wouldn't have liked this one as a child- maybe the descriptions of silliness would have struck too close to home, rather than striking me as funny.

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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on the way and insufferable Aunt Mary Maria visiting--and wearing out her welcome--Anne's life is full to bursting.


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Another charming Anne story. In this one, Anne and Gilbert move to Four Winds and rent a little house near the lighthouse. Of course, they meet all kinds of new friends, strange and sweet.
None of Montgomery's books have shied away from the sadder aspects of life, but I was surprised and sad when Anne's first baby died. I was more affected than I would have anticipated.
This series doesn't seem to get old to me. They're quick reading, with great characters. Can't believe I didn't read them all as a child.

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She recalled the first morning she had wakened in that little porch room, when the sunshine had crept in on her through the blossom-drift of the old Snow Queen. That had not been a happy wakening, for it brought with it the bitter disappointment of the preceding night. But since then the little room had been endeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions

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Anne is principal of Summerside High School and she lives in a house called Windy Willows.
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she has great allies in the widows Aunt Kate and Aunt Chatty - and in their irrepressible housekeeper, Rebecca Dew. As Anne learns Summerside's strangest secrets, winning the support of the prickly Pringles becomes only the first of her triumphs.


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This one follows her time in college with friends and lovers. Not much time is spent describing classes, obviously, mostly just the social scene. The rules about courtship seem idealized here- did they really never have sex? Certainly idealistic Anne never would have, but there's not a hint of it at all here.
I was a little bit sad when she refused Roy- that part is hard because he hasn't done anything to deserve it, and he sincerely loves her. Generally we like our heroines to be good, and not breaking hearts. But it's a much better reflection of real life, and I could relate to her.
Of course, I was happy when she chose Gilbert.

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In the third book of the series, Anne Shirley, the redheaded girl of Green Gables is leaving for college with Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane. As she leaves she feels she will never see Green Gables the same way again. However new friends await Anne and new adventures. Anne receives her first proposal. Daina Berry is married. Marilla deals with the twins. The island is changing, her friends are changing but Anne remains as spirited and irrepressible as ever.

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I loved this series as a kid but remembered almost nothing about it. This one is more adventures of Anne, picking up more or less where Anne of Green Gables ended. Anne has her first year of teaching, they adopt the twins, and Anne makes all kinds of new friends and new trouble. It's pretty much what I expected, but told so charmingly that it was very enjoyable.
I really liked the ending- it made up for all of my reservations about the end of Anne of Green Gables.
This is the kind of book I can't wait to read to my own kids.

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At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.


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I decided to listen to this children's book since I loved it so much when I was little but remember very little of it, and I don't remember reading the others in the series. I think it was even better now that I'm older and can appreciate Anne and not just think she's a bit silly, as I did when I was younger. I also appreciated much more the sense of family and of Anne's growing up and maturing. I loved Anne as a young woman.
I am torn about the ending- Anne giving up her scholarship to remain in the island and save Green Gables. It's a satisfying conclusion emotionally, but intellectually I am disappointed by Anne's settling for teaching when she'd like a Bachelors. However, it fits and doesn't feel sad in the book.

A treasured favorite. Anne is one of the most endearing, colorful characters I have ever encountered.

"...I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasnt born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice-cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing the firs across the brook." - Anne

At first I didnt think much of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: I found the story somewhat pointless and heading nowhere in particular, and Anne annoying with her constant chitter-chatter, and the religious sexism of the time bothered me.

However, as I got further into the story I realised that Anne and I had a lot in common, and perhaps this is why ANNE OF GREEN GABLES is such a popular favourite: everyone can relate to Anne in someway. In the end I found myself not being able to put the book down - I wanted to know what Anne was going to achieve and where life would take her! I laughed at the things she found amusing and shared her sorrow, bitterness in some things, and overall her determination in everything.

Such a wonderful read! I look forward to reading ANNE OF AVONLEA when I get myself a copy.

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A girl with spunk and dreams in search of a place to call home . . . Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert planned to adopt a boy to help out around the farm, but waiting at the train station is a freckle-faced, red-headed eleven-year-old orphan named Anne Shirley. From the minute Anne sets foot in Matthew's buggy, Green Gables will never be the same!

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In the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film You've got mail, there is a moment in a bookstore where a mature lady recalls being told to read Anne of Green Gables with a box of tissues! Anyone who's actually read the books knows exactly what she means.

This was one of those books that I only started reluctantly - I was trying to work my way to 'better' books, older books, but a librarian friend insisted that I give them a go, and I'm forever grateful that she did!

Anne the orphan moves to Prince Edward Island, and is devastated to learn that she wasn't exactly what everyone was waiting for. With her quick tongue, distinctive hair and ever adventurous nature, Anne did occasionally rub people up the wrong way, not least the ever demanding Gilbert Blythe! Nonetheless, how she makes her home is a lovely gentle story, still enjoyable now - years later.

what other sign does a classic need?

One of my most Favorite books!

Anne taught me how to dream