While Anne Shirley does appear in these stories of Avonlea and Spencerville, most of the people here are new to listeners. There are Old Lady Lloyd and Sylvia Gray, Felix Moore and his grandfather, and many more. The charm of the Anne of Green Gables books is to be found on every page of this gently sentimental and enjoyably humorous work.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She attended Prince Wales College in Charlottestown and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She returned to live with her grandmother in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, which became the basis for her "Anne" books. Anne of Green Gables (1908) brought her overnight success.