Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, for the #1925Club

When I was about 13, my family went to Martha’s Vineyard to spend part of a weekend with my father’s law partner. His children were younger so I begged to be taken to the local library (What, you say, you needed an excuse?). And what do you think I found on a discard table near the Chilmark Library door but a three-book series I’d never heard of by the author of Anne of Green Gables - also set on Prince Edward Island but about a different orphan. They were first edition hardcovers; unfortunately falling apart, but I have cherished them anyway. All three are delightful page-turners.

The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

Title: The Grace of Wild Things
Author: Heather Fawcett
Publication: Balzer + Bray/Harper Collins, hardcover, 2023
Genre: Juvenile Historical/Fantasy
Setting: Prince Edward Island

Description: Grace is a lonely orphan whose only talent is magic. Miserable at an orphanage, she runs away to the notorious witch in the woods and offers herself as an apprentice.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery - #1920Club

Title: Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Author:  L.M. Montgomery

Publication: McClelland & Stewart, Hardcover, 1920

Genre: Children’s fiction

This was the edition at my library

The #1920Club is hosted by Simon at Stuck in a Book and Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings who share blogger reviews of books published that year.

Green Gables, Prince Edward Island

Anne of Green Gables has been one of my favorite books since I was 11, 

and I finally made it to Green Gables in July!

"It would give me such a thrill, Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves."

Anne's room was just as I imagined it.

We walked through the garden to the Haunted Wood...

where we met Anne Shirley, strolling by...  

Looking back at Green Gables from the Haunted Wood

Which Anne of Green Gables character are you?  

I was afraid I might be Rachel Lynde, based on some of my 

answers, but I am Anne, of course!

Visiting Lucy Maud's grave

For my Top Ten Anne Shirley-Gilbert Blythe 

Most Romantic Moments, 

click here. 

PEI

You have to admit it would be fun to own a home on Prince Edward Island! 2008 will be the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables so a fun time to be there.