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New TV Tales of Childhood on Prince Edward Island

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900304
Author:Patricia Brennan

Sara Stanley is petite and very blonde, but like Lucy Maud Montgomery's earlier heroine, Anne Shirley, she has a lot of what her Aunt Olivia calls "natural gumption."

That makes Sara's "Avonlea" stories on cable's Disney Channel (Monday at 8) a worthy successor to the delightful "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea." Not that Sara would replace the freckle-faced redhead in anyone's affection, of course, but she's cut out of the same cloth.

Sarah Polley, 11, who appeared in "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," stars as Sara Stanley. She plays the daughter of a widower under house ...

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