Tuesday 1 April 2014

A-Z Challenge: A

Hello Everyone,


I would just like to welcome you all to the A-Z April 2014 Challenge. Today’s letter is A, and so my post is on Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. I read this book, and the rest of the series when I was about 10, and again when I was a bit older, maybe 14 or 15. It’s a wonderful story about a little girl growing up, and having some adventures on the way.
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Anne had a hard life, as her parents had died when she was little, and from then on she was shunted to and from foster parents until she was 10 years old. When she was 10, she was adopted by an older brother and sister, who had been looking for a boy to help around their farm, but got Anne instead. They decided to keep her, and raise her as their own. However, Anne was a handful. With an overactive imagination, and a bit of a temper, she often was lead into trouble. However, over the course of the series,  as she grew up and learnt some lessons about life, and that sometimes being sensible is better than being dramatic, she is the smartest in her class, goes to teaching college, marries her arch enemy Gilbert, and becomes a mother to children who are each and every bit as wonderful as their mother was when she was there age.
There is a movie of Anne of Green Gables
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In each book of the series, the title tells you a different place that Anne is staying. First she lives in Green Gables with her adoptive parents, so the title is Anne of Green Gables. Then she lives in Avonlea, so she is Anne of Avonlea. Then she is Anne of the Island. She becomes Anne of Windy Willows, then Anne’s House of Dreams, and finally, Anne of Ingleside. There has been a smaller series that features Anne’s children, titled Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes are quoted. There has also been a prequel written titled Before Green Gables. However, I have not read these other books.
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These are fantastic books to get little girls reading. If they are advanced enough, they can be read alone, or can be read to them by their parents, as each of the chapters contains one adventure of Anne’s. Anne is an engaging and funny character that every little girl can relate to in some way or another. Despite being written over a century ago, there is a timelessness to this series which means that it will never go out of date.

Let me know what you think of Anne of Green Gables, and if you have any lovely memories of reading it when you were little by commenting below.


Gracexxx 

16 comments:

  1. I read Anne of Green Gables at least 5 times as a girl. I also read several of the later books but wasn't as enamored of those. Anne was a huge part of my young bookish life. I was also an awkward redhead that was sometimes too smart for her own good and tended to get myself in bad situations. I still refer to special people as kindred spirits and tear up when I remember that scene when they find Matthew in the field. Thanks for reminding me of this incredible story.

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    1. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I too read it multiple times as a little girl growing up. It's a ageless classic that speaks to pretty much every little girl out there, young or old.

      Gracexxx

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  2. I love Anne of Green Gables! I've read all the books almost as many times as I've read Harry Potter. And that's really something. :) When I was little, I wanted to be like Anne. She was so smart, funny and original but still quite human and realistic. I wished my life could have been like hers! I still adore the books and I've always thought it would be amazing to go to Prince Edward Island some day. I haven't read the prequel but I love the later books about Anne's children. They are just as good as the ones about their mother.

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    1. That's just like me too, they're just so easy to re-read, such fabulous books. And that could be your aim while in Canada next year, visit Prince Edward Island.

      Gracexxx

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  3. Although I have not read it, the title captured my imagination when I was a girl

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    1. Maybe you could try to read it as an adult now?

      Gracexxx

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  4. I never read the books, but I watched the show with my mom. I think she read the books though. My go to book when I was little was Black Beauty. I loved that tale and it was on my reading list every year.

    ~Patricia Lynne~
    Story Dam
    Patricia Lynne, YA Author

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    1. Thats another one of my favourites, although it was the movie that captured my sister's imagination. She even named her goldfish Black Beauty.

      Gracexxx

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  5. I never read the Anne books until I was an adult, but was captivated by them. She's such an exuberant spirit! Focus on the Family Radio Theatre does a wonderful audio of the first book.

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    1. I might need to check that out, I always like to have a wee listen to audio books.

      Gracexxx

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  6. Last year I read the whole Anne series out loud to my girls. They loved them! We started watching the DVD mini-series but were very disappointed because there were quite a few differences from the books. Thank you for visiting my blog!.

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    1. Thank you for visiting mine! And its true, there often are disappointing differences in TV/movie adaptations of books.

      Gracexxx

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  7. I have never read any of the Anne books, but I think I may introduce them to my daughters. They both love to read (I am so proud!!). With my oldest, the only punishment that works is threatening to take her book away!

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    1. That is exactly what I was like as a child. I'm sure your daughters will love them.

      Gracexxx

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  8. I never read Anne when I was a kid, but there was a TV series of it that I watched. I got them for my own daughter, though, and she read the whole lot. When she cleared out her kids' books, not many made the cut, but she kept all the Anne books and the Little Women series. Quality will shine through!

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    1. Quality will always shine through, I still have all the best classic children books in my bookcase, and I'm not really a child any more! I also loved the Little Women series.

      Gracexxx

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