Fifteen years have come and gone since Anne and Gilbert were married in the orchard at Green Gables. As you begin this new book, you will find Anne home at Avonlea for a visit with Marilla and Mrs. Lynde.

"Deep, dear old gladness stirred in her heart. The gable room was putting its arms around her... enclosing her... enveloping her... she looked at the mirror that had reflected the face of the little orphan who had cried herself to sleep there that first night so long ago... Anne forgot that she was the joyful mother of five children..."

But this is the story of what happened at Ingleside, the Blythe home at Glen St. Mary, of Jem, of Walter, of Shirley, of Nan and baby 'Rilla, of the friends and visitors of that exciting household. Despite all the cares and crises of motherhood, Anne remains just as full of the joy of life as she was in the old days at Green Gables, a habit of living which she is able to impart to all of her children.

From the dust jacket of the 1939 Grosset & Dunlap edition