Anne of Green Gables #1

Anne of Green Gables

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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever...but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was not like anybody else, everyone at Green Gables agreed; she was special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreamed of the day when she could call herself Anne of Green Gables

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

One thing’s for certain, no house that Anne’s in will ever be dull.” That’s what Marilla Cuthbert says about Anne, the lively red-headed orphan she and her brother Matthew adopt. For decades, girls have agreed, eagerly reading every book in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s series that chronicles Anne’s coming of age.

297 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1908

This edition

Format
297 pages, Hardcover
Published
October 1, 2004 by Union Square Kids
ISBN
9781402714511
ASIN
1402714513
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • Matthew Cuthbert

    Matthew Cuthbert

    an aged bachelor farmer who owns Green Gables in Avonlea...

  • Diana Barry
  • Gilbert Blythe

    Gilbert Blythe

    Gilbert is described in the books as being very handsome, with dark, curly hair and hazel eyes. Needless to say, he is very popular with the girls....

  • Anne Shirley

    Anne Shirley

    The main character is an imaginative, talkative, red-haired orphan who comes to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at age 11. Later we follow Anne as she gets older, gets married and has children....

  • Marilla Cuthbert
  • Rachel Lynde

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