Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Writer’s Life (Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History) - Hardcover

Gr 3-6-This highly pictorial introduction to the famous Canadian author assumes that readers are familiar with Montgomery's works, but is formatted for a younger audience. Thirteen double-page chapters tell her story. Historical facts about the times are interspersed with information about the writer and mention is made of the things that happened to her that are paralleled in her characters' lives. Captioned illustrations, photographs, and quotations fill each right-hand page and spot art and reproductions add additional snippets of information. Students who are looking for report information on someone famous will be satisfied with this slim biography. However, readers who know and love Montgomery's books will want more than is available in this cursory overview. Introduce them to Catherine M. Andronik's Kindred Spirit: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Creator of Anne of Green Gables (Atheneum, 1993). Montgomery's The Alpine Path (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1997) focuses on her childhood and early writing years.-Kathleen Simonetta, Indian Trails Public Library District, Wheeling, IL

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