Anne of Windy Willows

It's ok

This review is for the entire Anne of Green Gables series. I loved this series as a child. Anne is my all time favorite storybook character. I read the whole series several times as a child and wanted to own hardcover editions of the series to share with my two daughters. I couldn't find nice hardcover editions of the entire series through the U.S. Amazon so decided to try Amazon.ca. I'm glad I did. These books are beautifully made--exactly what I was looking for!

This is the fourth book about the girl who was Anne of Green Gables, and it is excellent. We see Anne - grown up now, and in a loving relationship with the boy she had once seen as an enemy, Gilbert Blythe! Much of the story is told by Anne's letters to Gilbert. Anne has been given the post of Principal of Sunnyside High School - but there are problems. One big problem is the Pringle family, who rule Sunnyside - and who make life very difficult for Anne. How Anne turns the tables on them by her own personality - and the help of an old document - is something to be enjoyed! There is the school play - almost wrecked by a Pringle - but saved because Anne had encouraged another girl - there are other interesting characters among the pupils who Anne helps - there is Elizabeth, not a pupil, just a lonely little girl who Anne befriends and invites to Green Gables - there is one of Sunnyside's other teachers, the prickly, almost unapproachable Katherine Brooke, who seems impossible to befriend - but Anne gets past Katherine's defences and ends up transforming her. And there is Windy Willows itself, the old house where Anne boards; kept by interesting, delightful characters who Anne loves! There is so much to this book - much more than I have described! Like all the books about Anne, this is well worth reading.

Finally tracked down a beautiful collection of hardback imprints of the complete Anne series. Our family has loved the books and we read them aloud to each other. This is the best hardback we've seen - beautiful covers, end-papers, deckle-edge pages of heavy stock paper, great font choices. Really, just a wonderful version. Glad I could order from amazon.ca, since it's not available in the US!

Awesome!!!!!!!! i luv this book and all of the Anne Series.Look who is reading this in 2015!