A-to-Z Extra: Anne of Green Gables

A-to-Z Extra #2 is Anne of Green Gables and the rest of the Anne stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery.  The first-ever novel I read was Anne of Green Gables – a gift for my 10th birthday from my godmother.  I loved it right away, and I’ve read it over and over again through the years.  Since that first book was an abridged version (the cover of which is the left-most picture below), I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the full story.  Now, I’ve got a small but growing collection of various Anne editions that I treasure.

Anne was my first friend, and Gilbert Blythe was my first book boyfriend.  When I fortuitously stumbled upon Kevin Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea TV movies, I was ecstatic!  (I didn’t even know they existed – pre-Internet days, you know.)  Megan Follows and Jonathan Crombie portrayed Anne and Gilbert  in ways that were so much better than my imagination.  I fell in love with them both.  And I was heartbroken upon the news of Crombie’s unexpected and untimely death last week.

 

 

What are your favourite Anne quotes?  Mine is: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”