She has a carpet bag on her lap and a straw boater on her head. Brenna Thummler is a singularly talented artist.Īnne’s story begins with a patient wait at a railway station. Anne’s deep-seated love of Green Gables, nature and the passing seasons are infused on every page. The graphic novel has all that, and more, gorgeously illustrated in gentle natural colours that charm and sooth.
The Avonlea that I imagined as a child was lush and green, surrounded by forests of soaring trees and carpets of wildflowers, never-ending grassy meadows and winding streams, and white-washed wooden houses encircled by white picket fences. Montgomery would have found the beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation very much to her liking. Anne (with an “e”, she’ll have you mind) is the spirited, wildly imaginative and irrepressible protagonist of one of my childhood favourites, Anne of Green Gables by the prolific Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 – 1942). On a day traditionally spent in wistful retrospection and excited anticipation of new beginnings, it seems fitting to revisit a much-loved classic that has been retold anew in graphic novel form. It is my lifelong sorrow.” – Anne Shirley I can do that with my freckles and scrawniness and rotten green eyes – even my boring old name, “Anne” – but not this hair. “I do wish I could imagine away this red hair.
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