I saw a recent PBS production of this which is what inspired me to pick it for my Book Riot Challenge 2018 of a classic children's book published before 1980 and this fit the bill for that by quite a margin!!
I can see how this has stood the test of time and remained a constant favorite withe endless movie re-makes and republishing. My only qualm is that there was no direction for this story. It read very much like it was issued as a monthly serial in a newspaper, which it very well could have been, so there was no overall moral or story arch . Still it was cute and Anne was adorably charming and witty. I am not sure what took me so long to read this but it was a good pick for that challenge. Alternatively I am not feeling particularly driven to read the rest of the series because, again, it's a fairly long book with no real sense of direction and that does tend to get tedious very quickly. But I am glad that I did read it and I would recommend it for any young child to read if for nothing else as a staple of children's literature.