![]() ![]() In writing this book, Montgomery used the first-person narrative, in the person of Beverley King, reminiscing his boyhood in a fictional village in Prince Edward Island, Canada.īeverley travels to Carlisle, Prince Edward Island, with his younger brother Felix, after their father has been assigned by his firm to take charge of a new branch in Brazil. The Story Girl also tackles other issues–vanity, friendship, illness, and religion. There’s also the chapter of the ghostly bell, which terrified the children and amused an uncle. It is her, her cousins and her friends, that merry band of children having various adventures–canvassing for collections for a school library, buying a picture of God, whom Sara declared, looked like a cross old man. While being the titular character, she is not the only central character. Mythology, fairy tales, village anecdotes, treasured family history were the repertoire of Sara Stanley’s stories. And literally, I forgot about the book I was supposed to buy, and bought The Story Girl instead. I was looking for Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess when I saw this book. ![]() ![]() It was the same for the next eight books of the series. That spirited redhead stole my heart the moment my eyes clapped on the first page. ![]() Case in point: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series. Growing up, my older sister and mother exposed me to really good children’s books, and I fell in love with some of them. ![]()
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