I believe I was about 10 or 11 years old when I first read Anne of Green Gables. This was in Gdansk, Poland, where I was born. (I now live in the UK.) I remember being completely captivated by Anne Shirley – by her imagination, her poetic nature, her connection to nature and her gratitude – despite (or because?) the hardships of her earlier life. Most of all, though, it was her striving to be kind and striving to understand others that I think captured my soul.
a retired Special Education Teacher living in Athens, TN. I first fell in love with Anne’s free spirit watching the PBS mini series Anne of Green Gables. I taped it and shared the story with many. One of the English teachers I taught with introduced the collection of books to his class.