I fully expected to love this book as it is such a treasured childhood favourite for so many people, but what I did not foresee was how beautiful and poignant the writing would be and how much I would fall in love with Anne. She reminds me so much of myself at her age with her wild imagination, talkative and outgoing nature and a knack for getting herself, inadvertently, in all sorts of scrapes. The plot was simplistic and ordered so that each chapter could read as its own self-contained short story but combined to bring to life the lovely little being that was Anne of Green Gables.