Aunt Cyrillas Christmas Basket, L. M. Montgomery
Aunt Cyrillas Christmas Basket, L. M. Montgomery
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Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2018


Synopsis

In Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket, Lucy Rose tries to talk her folksy Aunt Cyrilla out of bringing her big, bulgy, funny-looking basket to the city to deliver Christmas goodies to their relatives in the city. When their train is stranded during a snow storm, Aunt Cyrilla and her fellow passengers team up to provide a proper Christmas morning for the little ones in their care.

About L. M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was one of the most famous Canadian writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her books for young adults, particularly Anne of Green Gables and its six sequels chronicling the adventures of Anne Shirley, a feisty but sentimental orphan who is adopted by elderly foster parents. In her lifetime, Lucy published 20 novels and some 500 short stories and poems. Her writing, rich in imagination and full of lessons in optimism, brought her international fame and remains popular today.

Lucy was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Soon after her mother died (when Lucy was just two), her father remarried and moved away. He left Lucy to be raised by her maternal grandparents in Cavendish. The isolation of this small town combined with the strict discipline of her grandparents led to an unhappy childhood.

Lucy was an avid reader and writer at an early age. She published her first poem in a local paper at the age of fifteen. She studied literature at Dalhousie University in Halifax, then returned to Cavendish to take care of her grandmother, worked at a local post office, and became a schoolteacher.

While caring for her grandmother, she wrote Anne of Green Gables. Several publishers rejected the book before it was finally accepted, and it became a bestseller. Eventually, it was made into a musical, a television movie, and a television series. Lucy later married a minister and moved to Ontario, where she died in 1942.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angie on June 30, 2024

This was a sweet short story, and I loved Aunt Cyrilla with her overstuffed basket that ended up being more useful than she ever dreamed. (Although, I have to admit, I cannot picture what kind of basket she was carrying that could hold all of that--I really need a picture here!) XD I loved the way t......more

Goodreads review by Tisha (IG: Bluestocking629) on December 15, 2018

Short and sweet. I would expect no less than sweet from LM Montgomery.......more