FID Anglo-American CultureIt's #InternationalChildrensBookDay! We're celebrating it with this classic of #CanadianLiterature: #AnneOfGreenGables by Lucy Maud Montgomery!
Here's 2 editions from our collection, photographed in our very own "White Way of Delight"!
🎀 The pretty centenary edition by Puffin: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=587216379
👩🏫 The MASSIVE annotated edition, with lots of pictures, explanations, textual notes & appendices: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1619018438
This 1991 volume by Carolyn Strom Collins & Christina Wyss Erikson is one of several #AnneOfGreenGables "treasuries" for younger readers, explaining the historical life in #LucyMaudMontgomery's novels with pictures, recipes etc!
🍰 🍷 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=23917805X
More interested in reseach on #childrensliterature? Then explore this 2010 essay collection, ed.s @MLC_Research & Benjamin Lefebvre, incl themes like #bibliotherapy, #fashion, #Postcolonialism, Anne as a brand or #Canadian icon! 🇨🇦
🔍 https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1616275324
Finally, a parallel life to #AnneofGreenGables, but in a novel in verse for adults is Liz Berry's The Home Child, winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize - approaching Berry's own great aunt & her journey from Edwardian England to Nova Scotia, Canada
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1843058928