Now comes the "official prequel" -- a new book that will not only celebrate the 100th anniversary of an icon's creation, but will also invent a fresh back-story about Anne Shirley's early childhood.

It focuses on the young girl's hard-luck life with a string of foster families and at a Nova Scotia orphanage in the years before her momentous appearance as an 11-year-old adoptee at Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert's farm in turn-of-the-century Avonlea.

Written by award-winning Nova Scotia children's author Budge Wilson. 
Price: 25.00 CDN