

I’ll let you decide how you feel about the pink (although I will say this colorful set looks beautiful on the shelf.) Anne of Green Gables collections.

This beautiful edition features an introduction by Lauren Child, a short biography of L. I own this edition, which came as part of a beautiful boxed set of children’s classics. Puffin clothbound classics edition ($16.95) I own this edition and it is gorgeous. The Folio Society offers periodic sales and a membership program to take a bit of the sting out of the prices. Each book is clothbound, hand-illustrated, and comes with its own slipcover. This swoon-worthy edition is from the Folio Society, which offers the highest-quality hardcovers for the serious collector. I wish they would do more Montgomery titles because I would snatch them all up, but as of this time, none are planned. I splurged on this collection last fall and love it. This beautiful full-color, gold-lettered version of Anne of Green Gables comes from the Puffin in Bloom collection by Rifle Paper Company. Many publishers have put out striking editions of the first-and only the first- Anne book. (I owned these as a kid and it’s anybody’s guess where those books ended up.) I popped online to make amends, and was delighted-and horrified-to find that my options have ballooned in the past two years.Ī word to Montgomery fans: now is the best of times, now is the worst of times. There have never been so many gorgeous editions of Anne to choose from, which means deciding on just one set is terribly difficult. While we own four copies of Anne of Green Gables, we own not a single copy of books 2-8. “Like so many people, my reaction to the news of the tragic and untimely death of Jonathan Crombie was grief, then a burning desire to read all the books and watch all the movies. (Well, maybe not all the movies: I’m firmly in the camp that maintains The Continuing Story was a travesty.)
