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Summary: Anne of Geen Gables a review by Nicole
Review: By, L.M.Montgomery
Little Anne had never belonged anywhere until she came to Green Gables. But even though her going there was a mistake, she felt like she belonged. Not belonging anywhere since she was a baby Anne was determined to stay. You see, the Cuthbert's asked for a strong boy to help around the farm. But instead got a pale faced little girl. Marilla Cuthbert told her brother Mathew that she had to go. But being the kind-hearted soul he was, he talked Marilla out of her idea and into the idea of letting her stay but only for a little while. The idea of Anne staying for a little while wore off and they decided to keep her. They had both gotten attached to her but were afraid to tell her. When Marilla finally told Anne she could stay Anne went to explore. She had decided her first day at Green Gables that since she wasn't staying that she wouldn't get attached to it. So if she did go, it wouldn't be hard to leave Green Gables. Anne made a lot of friends and grew to love the place. But she also made two enemies and their names were Gilbert Blythe and Josie Pye. Gilbert was mean to her and Josie was just plain rude. As soon as Gilbert made fun of her, she got mad and broke her writing slate over his head. From then on the two of them fought about everything. He apologized to her several times, but she was stubborn. When they both wanted to teach at the Avalon School Gilbert gave the school to Anne when it was promised to him. From then on Anne was friendly with everyone, including the rude Josie Pye. But her troubles in life don't end with the book, it goes on through out the whole series. Anne might make a ton of mistakes, but she has her own way of correcting them just like me!
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Summary: Yet Another Summary of 'Anne of Green Gables'...
Review: When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt a boy to help with the farm work they get more than they bargained for. As a result of a bizarre series of mistakes ("If you want something done right you have to do it your self," Marilla wryly remarks.) the orphan standing on their doorstep is not a boy at all. In fact, Anne Shirley is as far from a boy as you could possibly get. Anne, a spunky, red-haired girl of eleven, with an imagination the size of Texas, is not only not a boy; there is no end to the awkward and often comical scrapes she gets herself into, including jumping into bed on top of old Mrs. Barry, the crankiest old woman imaginable. Then there's the handsome Gilbert Blythe, who will be forever sorry for teasing Anne about her hair. And when the Avonlea School holds a concert, you can bet Anne is right in the thick of it. But whether she's flavoring a cake with liniment instead of vanilla, or dying her hair bright green, she will always be the same irrepressable (irresponsible) Anne of Green Gables.
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Summary: Classic
Review: The Anne of Green Gables series is an all time favorite of mine. I've read them all, including Montgomery's othere series Emily of New Moon. These are wonderful books for young girls. Anne is passionate, imaginative and independent. I look forwarding to giving these books for my daughter when she is old enough to read them.
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Summary: Project Review
Review: Anne of Green Gables is book that puts a humorous outlook on growing up. At first, Anne has a violent temper, she is extremely vain, talkative and she is always imagining things and getting into scrapes. Towards the end of the book, her temper, imagination, talkativeness, and vanity die down. Everyone goes through the same types of transformation as they grow up, and although people do not do the same things she did, the level of transformation is the same. This book is a great read; it is humorous and at the same time a feel good type book. This book will keep you wondering what will happen next through out the whole thing.
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Summary: Great!!!!
Review: This book was wonderful once you got past the first 30 or 40 pages. This book makes you think about things in a different way. I would recconmend this book to any body.
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Summary: So wonderful it brought tears to my eyes
Review: I have read many books in my lifetime, and I must say, without a doubt, this is my favorite. When Mathew Cuthbert goes to pick up his and his sister's, Marilla Cuthbert, adopted child, he finds out she is a girl. They consider not keeping her, but soon they decide that she can stay a Green Gables. Marilla slowly loves the imaginitive high spirited girl more and more each day. Anne encounters many adventures from the age of 11 to 16. This book was so good, I found my heart bursting with joy. I would reccomend this to any girls and women. I loved it!
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: In Anne Shirley(love that name!) LM Montgomery created a classic young female protagonist that frequently gets into "scrapes",hates being called "Carrots" because of her red hair and is a non-stop talker as well. The writing itself is so fresh and funny that I forgot that I was reading a century old book. Not that it matters, as good writing is timeless. I hope you enjoy Anne and beautiful Prince Edward Island as much I did..
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Summary: A great classic-one of my favorite books!!
Review: This book is really funny and also keeps you interested so that you won't put down the book till you have read it all! The book is about an orphaned 11-year old girl named Anne Shirley. She has red hair that matches her temper, is skinny, and also has an unstoppable mouth! The two things she most wishes for is for a permanent and wonderful home and the other wish is that she becomes beautiful when she grows up. She has big imagination and a enormous heart which charms everyone she meets. Marilla Cupberth and her brother Matthew are getting old and Matthew needs some help on their farm called Green Gables which is on and island called Prince Edward Island. Matthew and Marilla decides to adopt a boy around 11 or 12 to help Matthew. Some sort of queer mistake happens, Matthew calles it Providence later on, when Anne Shirley is sent from the orphanage instead of the boy they were expecting. Matthew figures that he couldn't leave her waiting at the train platform and brings her back to Green Gables, listening to her relentless tongue helplessly but rather enjoyingly. Marilla is shocked and proposes to send her back to the orphanage the very next morning. Anne, being very happy about living at Green Gables, is very depressed. Marilla and Anne goes back to the orphanage where they discover that another woman who is very strict had been wanting a girl around 11 or 12. The orphanage lady quickly decides that Anne would be that girl. Marilla feels rather sorry for Anne and brings her back to Green Gables. Anne, after being able to spend another night, is overjoyed as Marilla decides to let her stay permanently. Matthew is overjoyed too because he had somehow liked Anne's chattering. She meets a "busom friend" called Diana Barry at a picnic,cracks her slate over a boy called Gilbert Blythe who had teased her about her red hair in her first day of school, falls of the ridgepole of the roof of a house because of a dare, and dyes her hair green because she had wanted to make her red hair black! Fortunately, she does not stay a child of trouble, though she does stay a person who has a tongue which is used a lot. She passes an hard exam to collage and becomes first in every subject, always tieing with her hated rivalry Gilbert Blythe, who she has a grudge on since that day when he had called her hair "Carrots!". She also becomes a beautiful lady who has now auburn hair and no sign of her hated red hair. Marilla and Matthew has every right to be proud of her and you'll be proud with them as your read this charming book! As I said before, this book is funny and also is soo interesting. I read this over 5 times and it has still not become boring. You'll love Anne Shirley forever as and after you read this book!
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Summary: Anne of Green Gables Picture Book...Lovely!
Review: Please note this review is for the hardcover picture book edition of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, adapted by M.C. Helldorfer and illustrated by Ellen Beier. It is not meant to be a review of the unabridged original novel.
Just as I love every one of L.M. Montgomery's tales of Prince Edward Island, particularly all of her Anne books, I love this charming picture book adaptation of her best loved and well-known book, Anne of Green Gables. This is a delightful introduction to the world of Anne Shirley, the plucky red-headed orphan girl with the poetic and romantic soul, who wins the hearts of everyone she meets...eventually!
Ellen Beier has done a remarkable job bringing the characters and events of this delightful book to life with her colorful illustrations of a bygone day. In 38 pages the key events in the story are covered with sufficient detail to capture the charm of the original book and are sure to whet the appetite for more details of the beloved Anne and her friends and family of Avonlea. We join the shy and quiet Matthew Cuthbert at the train station when he first discovers that the "boy" he and his sister, Marilla expected to adopt is an eleven year old girl with red hair, whose dreamy imagination fuels her non-stop friendly banter all the way back to their home, called Green Gables. We share in Anne's misery when she learns Marilla wants to send her back! We meet Anne's best friend Diana Barry. We suffer along with Anne when she is unjustly accused of losing Marilla's heirloom brooch. We meet the handsome tease Gilbert Blythe who taunts Anne with the name Carrots until he feels the crack of her school slate on his head. This book illustrates Anne's misguided attempt to change her hated red hair color and shows her misery when it turns out GREEN! Worse yet, she then needs to get shorn like a sheep. Oh the agony of embarassment! Speaking of embarassing moments, we are there when Anne, play-acting as Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat, finds her "funeral barge" has sprung a leak and (oh horrors!) she must be rescued by none other than the hated Gilbert Blythe. We are there as Anne slowly, bit by bit, creates a permanent happy place in the lives of the Cuthberts and of all who know her. The book leaves off on the happy occasion of Anne recieving a beautiful longed for dress with the coveted and fashionable puffed sleeves that the practical Marilla had originally frowned upon as frivolous. Alot of Anne's characterization is omitted, necessarily, from this shortened version but her charm and verve still shine through. I think this is a great first Anne book and I hope it will help bring the beloved stories to an ever widening readership.
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Summary: A classic for all generations
Review: "Anne of Green Gables" is one of the best novels I ever read. Rich on her descriptions people and places and understanding of human nature, L. M. Montgomery fills the pages of this book with the life of a young orphan and her adventures in a strange and conservative land. Anne's charming lays on her humanity. She has faults (like her terrible temper and her vanity) and at the same time is a wonderful, good-hearted, imaginative and gentle girl. the changes she causes on the village of Avonlea, with her sincerity and imagination will remain forever. "Anne of Green Gables" is that kind of book that you cannot stop reading untill it ends and when it does, you feel terribly sorry and want to start reading it again. "Anne of Green Gales" is also one of this novels with a moral background, writen to "teach people something", like "Little Women" or "Pollyana". But it is a classic and should be read by all adults and children that believe in the magic of life and how wonderfull life can be.
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