When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at their farm, they mistakenly get Anne Shirley, a feisty, independent, but warm-hearted eleven-year-old girl. Fortunately, her sunny nature and quirky imagination win the hearts of her reluctant foster parents and everyone in the community. But not a day goes by without some memorable adventure or prank in the tragicomedy of her life.

"Anne's vivid imagination, her longing for life to be more wonderful and romantic, but most of all her fluent, long-winded and emphatic way of speaking carry her far in life. She speaks with great passion and emphasis about everything and she lives life with a brimming heart that is wide open -- to life, to love, to friendship, to experience. Her winning nature is irresistible."