Review: Heartwarming Stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2013
I love these books.  I read the first Anne book many years ago.  I bought the series for my oldest granddaughter, but now to find all these stories together in one volume plus the Story Girl series and other isolated stories of the Avonlea area as well as poetry was for me a great find.  I knew I was in for a treat when I read, and read, and then read some more, and still my Kindle said I was only 2% finished, I knew I was in for a real treat.  So Anne and her friends were my companions every night for a long, long, time.It continues to amaze me how many new characters Ms Montgomery can come up with all so realistic and true to the real  people of Prince Edward Island.  Now I have discovered another series, the Emily Stories.  I hope today's children and young people won't find these stories too tame for this age of sex and violence.  It warmed my heart to return to a time around the turn of the 20th century when morals were high, people had values, and faith was strong.  While not necessarily classified as Christian fiction, these stories depict a page in Canadian history from which we peoples of the 21st century, both American and Canadian, can read with nostalgia, I never realized before what a long ordeal World War I became for the people of Canada.