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by Marion Hoffmann (Author), Muriel Wood (Illustrator)
Anne Shirley, the freckle-faced, hot-tempered girl who arrived at Green Gables as an orphan, is almost 100 years old!
Yet every year she wins the hearts of more and more fans around the world. This collection of puzzles is designed especially for the readers of L. M. Montgomery's wonderful book about Anne and her topsy-turvy life on Prince Edward Island.
The 50 puzzles touch every part of Anne's life at Green Gables: the people who fill her world, the scrapes she gets into, the outlandish things she says. Included are crosswords, which range from easy to difficult. There are also word searches, with solutions that hold secret messages. Some puzzles-called match-ups-require matching names in the first column with statements in the second column. Others require simple decoding skills in order to come up with a famous Anne quotation from the book. This is a puzzle book packed full of brain-teasing challenges for all ages.
- Puzzles for a wide range of readers and puzzle solvers
- Crosswords, match-ups, word searches, and coded messages
- Art by award-winning illustrator Muriel Wood
- Includes solutions
Author Biography
Marion Hoffmann was born and raised in South Africa, where she read all the Anne books and started making her own crosswords at the age of 12. She now lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and works as a writer and editor. To celebrate Alberta's centennial in 2005, Marion created Amazing Alberta: 100 Word Puzzles About Our Province.
Muriel Wood's illustrations have appeared in a number of children's books, including Old Bird, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, and Margaret Laurence's The Olden Day's Coat. She has also illustrated the three previous titles in the New Beginnings series, Scared Sarah, Lizzie's Storm, and Aram's Choice. A former instructor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Muriel now draws and paints fulltime. She lives with her husband and two cats in Toronto, Ontario.
