The only way to fully appreciate “The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables” is to buy it. Every “Anne” fan needs this book. The pictures are beautiful and the information is interesting.

This is a well-researched and visually stunning book about L M Montgomery and the deep effect her surroundings had on her life and writing. For aficionados of Montgomery's life, many of the facts will not necessarily be new, but this is a great introduction for anyone who's curious to discover more about the author of the Anne series. The photographs made me want to go back to Prince Edward Island as soon as possible. It contains extensive source notes for further research.

Truly visually engaging and I think will appeal to "kindred spirits" of all ages!

Anne of Green Gables is a book that speaks to many readers. Here, Catherine Reid makes a convincing case that the land of Prince Edward Island spoke to Maud Montgomery. The pictures are beautiful. I would have liked a more straight-forward biographical section on Montgomery. Her life is referenced, but it came in and out of focus and left me with quite a few questions. This is a lovely book for fans of Anne.

I loved how the places from Anne of Green Gables come alive in this beautiful book. Last year I have visited PEI and I wish I had this book with me as a guide. There is a store in Charlottetown dedicated to Anna of Green Gables, and this book should be sold there, it will be a great success.

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I want to be Anne Shirley's bosum friend, and since Diana already holds that honor, I will settle for being her kindred spirit. I adore the Anne books and L.M. Montgomery is one of my favorite authors. Her writing is beautiful and I have always dreamed of visiting Avonlea, visiting the Dryad's Bubble and walking down Lover's Lane. Anne and her world are incredibly real to me, thanks to Montgomery's writing and I always want to step through the pages and join her.
In The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gable, you are invited into that world--or at least the one that inspired it. Lucy Maud Montgomery (she preferred to be called Maud...Maud with no e) wove the world around her on Prince Edward Island into her writing. The Island and its plant life meant a great deal to Maud and this is evident in her writing. Anne's favorite spots-the Lake of Shining Waters and the Berry's old fashioned garden were all based on real places, each of which is visited in The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables. There are pictures of how they look today, as well as photographs of the different plants and flowers mentioned in the Anne books. My favorite pictures were those taken by Maud, which allows you to see what they looked like when she was writing Anne into being.
As much as The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables is about the flowers and places in the Anne stories, it is also the story of Maud herself. I learned a lot about Maud and I like her even more for it. I finished the Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables with the desre to reread (again) my Anne books and to visit Prince Edward Island.

Wow! I knew when I saw this title that I just had to read it. I discovered Anne as an early teenager and fell in love right away.

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables has beautiful pictures and so much background information about Lucy Maud Montgomery. I know this will be something I return to again and I cannot wait to share it with my children.

This is a must add to any Anne collection.

* I will put up a review on Amazon and Barnes and Noble once it releases.

Well written & beautifully describes the landscape & parts of the country. I enjoyed being "taken back" to reading the Little House series. Thank you!

What a beautiful gift for an Anne of Green Gables fan! Or to give along with L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables - or the whole Anne series of books - to a reader.

This book is so much more than I thought it would be. I expected a sort of attractive touristy selection of photos of Prince Edward Island, supported with some text. It turns out that this book is quite an in-depth look at the connection of Lucy Maude Montgomery and her beloved character Anne Shirley with Prince Edward Island. Yes, there are photos of PEI and sites associated with the author's family and the Anne stories, including the Green Gables museum, but there are also images and text that take on us a tour through the seasons of the island, and their associations with Maude and Anne. These include Maude's personal scrapbooks, journal entries, biographical information, family photos, information about gardens and plants, black and white images colourized by Maude and more.

I have been to PEI several times. I've see Anne of Green Gables in several television adaptations and on stage in Charlottetown. I read and loved the Anne series of books in my youth. I thought I knew a fair bit about the place, the author, the character and the books, yet Catherine Reid's book has given me new appreciation for them all. It is a lovely volume and recommended to Anne of Green Gables fans.

I read an advance digital copy of this book from Timber Press via NetGalley.

I recently reread the Anne of Green Gables series and this was a lovely accompaniment to the series. The photographs of gardens, landscapes, and familiar settings in the books were well done and make me want to plan a trip to PEI soon. I was expecting the book to lean more towards horticulture and the environment of PEI than to Maud's biography, but I greatly enjoyed learning more about her life along the way.

This is a very beautiful book and a wonderful guide to Anne of Green Gables and the related landscapes. It makes very interesting reading and is also a beautiful display book. It also showcases some of Canada's natural wonders in a great and classy way.

"Thank-you" to Timber Press, NetGalley, and the author Catherine Reid, for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Honestly, this is a 5-star book for me! My Mom and I shared a love of Anne of Green Gables. We read four or five of the books in the series out loud to each other as I was overcoming a health issue in my early twenties. We grew to love our kindred spirit, Anne. Our love of Anne and her descriptions of PEI prompted a vacation visit to the island. What a wonderful experience we had driving the red soil back roads, visiting the Anne of Green Gables site, watching the cows graze next to the seashore and having tea in Charlottetown.

This book is a wonderful mix of LM (Lucy MAUD) Montgomery biography, Prince Edward Island travelogue, and exquisite photos of those environs. It would be a great gift for an inveterate traveler, or a reader who cherishes Anne. It would also make a nice coffee table book.

I especially enjoyed the photos, especially those that showed PEI during all four seasons. This area is very really rural, but it hosts lots of Anne of Green Gables fans throughout the year. I think I read somewhere that 'Anne' tourism is the second largest industry on the island. Maud Montgomery's biography was bittersweet, and paralleled quite a few of the experiences that were written for young Anne. She did not have an easy time with her husband, and after moving off the island, I think it continued to call to her. It still calls to me, and I was only there for a few days.

This was a must read for me. I love Anne of Green Gables and spent time watching the television series as we followed Anne Shirley's spunky character on her escapades while she took sleigh rides over snow covered hills and wandered through red clay paths skirted with lush trees and scenic farmland.

Yes, many years ago, I along with millions of other readers, fell in love with the landscape of Green Gables, located in Cavendish in the Prince Edward Island National Park.

What I took from this amazing collection of images and photographs was that in her writing, Lucy Maud Montgomery often focused on things that comforted her, like the beauty of the land and sky that surrounded her.

I have been unable to get this book to open. I will be unable, at this time, to write a review.

This book is beautiful and would be a great gift for any fan of L.M. Montgomery. I've already pre-ordered my copy on Amazon.

Beautiful book for the Anne of Green Gables aficionado.

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables is a beautifully descriptive book, mostly of contemporary photos of Prince Edward Island, but plenty of historic photos to make connections from the past to the present. This would make a great coffee table book or a book to pick up and explore over time.

This book is a must read for any Lucy Maud Montgomery fan. It is chock full of beautiful photos and interesting information about Prince Edward Island. I liked the way the author entwined Montgomery’s own life and words in this book. Loved it.

This is a visually stunning books for the true Anne of Green Gables fan. The book not only explores the many landscapes of Prince Edward Island that served as inspiration for the novels, but it also draws parallels between Lucy Maud Montgomery and her famous literary heroine Anne Shirley. The level of detail and amount of research provided in this book is astounding and a bit overwhelming. It would not be a book for the casual reader but for a true fan.