The appeal of this Canadian classic children ''s book is seemingly everlasting - for it is a story of an i ndividual making good by her own efforts, and orphaned girl sent to live with an elderly brother and sister who really w ant a boy to help on the farm. '
Author Biography
L. M. Montgomery, known as Maud, was born on Prince Edward Island, off the coast of Canada, in 1874. Maud's mother died when she was just a baby and so she had a rather unhappy childhood growing up in the care of her strict grandparents. She was just sixteen when she had her first poem published. As a young woman she worked as a teacher and although she didn't enjoy it much it gave her lots of time to write. Maud wrote hundred of short stories, poems and novels throughout her life but it was the hugely popular Anne of Green Gables and its sequels that made her famous. She died in 1942.
