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Anne of Green Gables

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I really enjoyed this book! I never read Anne of Green Gables as a child! Anne is a very lovable and quirky character. I enjoyed the adventures that she goes on!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced digital copy of this book!

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Anne of Green Gables is a lovely classic and one of my favorites. It was so fun to revisit this cherished book. I highly recommend this fun and engaging story.

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This is the story of Anne Shirley who is an orphan and taken in mistakenly as a farm help by an elderly brother and sister, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.

Anne has a huge imagination, ambition and temper but despite that she longs to be part of a family and means well. The story continues about her life on the Cuthbert's farm in Green Gables.

The book has a lovely picture of Anne at the front and it also has a contents page. Surprisingly, there are no other pictures.

I love the author's descriptions. It definitely is a heartfelt story that makes you have mixed emotion for the central titled character. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in this collection.

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Anne of Green Gables is a classic. She is whimsical, quirky and lovely, this is a great book for all ages and stands the test of time. I had been anticipating reading this with my 8 year old and she loved it too.

This is a great introduction to classics.

Thank you to #NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an advance e-copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

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I love Anne of Green Gables and this is an easy way for younger readers to get into that lovely story that teaches kids about being strong and sure of themselves in their own skin.

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Can't go wrong Anne of Green Gables this classic of a book, one of my all time favourite childhood books,

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I can't believe it has taken me 33 years to get round to reading Anne of Green Gables. While it was longer than I anticipated I enjoyed every moment of it and I'm looking forward to having time to get to the rest of the series.
I love that the imaginings and musings of a young girl engaged me so quickly and enjoyed reading about how young 'Carrots' grew from a whimsical orphan into an educated young woman throughout the story. I laughed and cried along with Anne as the story progressed and would have loved her to be a friend when I was young.

This is certainly a book I will be recommending to children at school and encouraging them to think about how they might have amused themselves in the time before TV and computers, and how different life might be in the Canadian countryside.

I received an eARC from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

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I first read this novel when I was 8 year old, and it certainly has stood the test of time. Re reading it brought back many delightful childhood memories of losing myself in a book for the very first time, dreaming of being called Cordelia and living on Prince Edward Island.

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Anne of Green Gables is a classic in children's literature. It has stood the test of time. When I saw that a new version was coming out, I was excited to see how the original may have been adapted or illustrated in any way. I was disappointed to see that the only change to the classic was the new cover.

In my opinion, Anne of Green Gables would appeal to today's audience of children better if were more illustrated or even adapted into a graphic novel. A change in the cover only will not get students to pick up this book today.

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Sweet book to be enjoyed even if you are not a kid. I found Anne a bit "silly" in the beginning of the book (I guess I'm more of a Marilla than a Matthew) with all her forgetfulness and talks about romance, but by the end of the book I just wanted her to make peace with Gilbert and to have her dreams come true. I totally understand why it's such a classic! Definitely give it a go

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I loved this book. I never read it as a child but fell in love with it as an adult. Anne is quirky and lovable . This would be a great book to read aloud with a child. So many adventures

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Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this delightful version of Anne of Green Gables. I adored it!

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This precious story touches my heart once again! I loved it as a little girl, I love it more so as a Mommy who gets to share the inspiring Anne with my daughters. Anne's adventurous behavior and poetic personality light up the day and reading about her life in Green Gables is one of my favorite things to do!

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Anne of Green Gables is a timeless classic and wonderful read. Rereading this book was like a flashback to my childhood. I would highly recommend Anne of Green Gables to people of all ages.

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The time that I've been meaning to read this can most accurately be counted in decades. I have started this on at least a few previous occasions, but could never get into it: I remember being a dramatic, imaginative kid and teen, but I couldn't identify with Anne. She seemed unrealistic, a caricature to me through the years. Now, though: now that I have an 11-year-old who forgets what he's doing because he's launched into a lecture about a story he was writing, who put 1/2 a cup of flour into the cookies instead of 3 and 1/2, who rages and cries and emotes all over, who bounced around homes before being placed with us, who can happily stare at the wall while lost in his own imagination instead of doing the work before him, who cannot live in the moment but lives forever in the 10-minutes or 2-days- or 1-week-from-now... I had a character to identify with, and it isn't Anne.

Part of my long-term struggle may have been because this always seemed to be presented as a children's novel, and I can't imagine many kids actually enjoying it. Teens, maybe. But if anything, this is a book for the parents of high-strung tweens. :D

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Anne of Green Gables is one of most timeless, classic and wonderful books of all time! I first read it when I was in my "tweens" and make a point to re-read it at least every few years. Whether you identify with Anne, Diana, or any of the other wonderfully-written characters (although maybe NOT Josie Pye), you'll laugh and cry along with Anne's antics and adventures as she grows throughout the novel. Fair warning, though, you may just end up yearning for puff sleeves!

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I wish I would have read this as a child. Nonetheless I really enjoyed Anne of Green Gables even as an adult. Higly reccomed it. A fantistic and timeless classic. 5/5

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Loved this book Anne of Green Gables is a classic. It's a great book for a younger reader or even an adult. I highly recommend it, Anyone who reads it is going to love it.

Thanks NetGalley and publisher for allowing me to read it.

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I'm so glad I finally read this book, and I'm really annoyed with myself for not reading it sooner. How I would have loved Anne when I was a child! The writing is lovely, the descriptions are gorgeous, the characters are so real. A pure delight!

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I am going to Prince Edward Island this summer to literally visit the place where LM Montgomery lived and wrote this book. It was really formative for me as a young girl. Anne of Green Gables is an enduring story can encourage many generations. LM Montgomery's life had a tragic ending, and sometimes I wish she could have known how much her books would mean to people.

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