The family had actually requested that a boy be sent to help with the chores - and Anne is sent by mistake. Should she be returned to the orphanage? Anne soon brightens up Green Gables with her imagination and engaging ways and so she stays.
Anne is especially popular in Japan where the book has been included in the national school curriculum since 1952. Some Japanese couples travel to Prince Edward Island to be married and teenage Japanese girls have been known to arrive there with their hair dyed red and done up in pigtails like Anne's.
Several of them have been issued - internationally favorite titles like The Wizard of Oz, The Little Mermaid, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wind in The Willows, Aladdin and the Arabian Nights, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Heidi, Aesop's Fables, The Blue Fairy Book and the like. Young readers are certain to enjoy them, but so will adults who value quality products - and who may be tempted to dip into them for happy bedtime reading memories.
This volume is illustrated with the evocative black-and-white drawings of M. A. and W. A. J. Claus (we show some examples above). Since it is new and never read there are no signs of prior ownership such as an inscription or a bookplate. It awaits its first happy owner. It is of gift quality.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble ISBN: 978-1-4351-6209-9 Children's fantasy fiction.
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