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Summary: Heidi
Review: Heidi is a very good book about a girl who is being switched from
family to family because nobody really wants her but she teaches
a little girl how to walk instead of using a wheelchair and teaches a boy how to read when nobody else believes she can do it
but she does and everybody learns to believe you can do something
if you just put your mind to it.
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Summary: This book makes you Hungry to live in the Mountians!
Review: Heidi is about a young girl that has lived with her Aunt Dete all of her life. Her Aunt has had enough of her so she sends her up a mountain to her Grandfather. The People of the town are very surprised at what Heidi's Aunt is about to do. They try to warn her but she won't listen. When Heidi and her Aunt get up the Alm, they find that the "Alm Uncle" is not very happy with their arrival. The Aunt doesn't care, she tells the Grandfather that she has taken care of the child long enough. She leaves and never comes back. After years of staying with her Granfather, Heidi learns how to live freely and finds new friends in high places. She learns about the mountains and the cold winters up on the Alm. As Heidi gets older her Aunt Dete comes up again and tells the Grandfather that Heidi needs to go to school. The Grandfather refuses, but eventually gives in. Dete takes Heidi to the city where she finds a new friend, Clara. Clara has to sit in a wheel chair. If you want to know why, read the book! Heidi gets into all kinds of mischieve there, she misses the mountains and can't understand why there aren't any trees. Heidi gets so homesick they have to send her back to the Alm. Clara and the other residents promise to visit her sometime in the summer. The book ends up that Clara and her Grandmother go and visit Heidi and they have the most wonderful time that they never wanted to leave. As there stay at the Alm goes on, the mountain air and hearty food strengthen Clara to where she can walk. Clara and her Grandmother leave with the promise of coming back again. I really liked this book. It was very real, in a sense that brought you into the actual story. When I read the book, I almost wished I was there in the book listening to their conversations, or eating at their little dinner table. Whenever the book got to eating the meals, it was so real that I got hungry! I would definitely recommend this book to any age group. The author really describes the scenery to where you can picture it in your mind. I loved the book, and I am going to read again.
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Summary: A Book that Endures Forever
Review: Heidi is one of the first books I read as a youngster. I can still recall the wonderful description of life in the mountainous Alps with her beloved grandfather. Then to be taken to a less happy home, away from the mountains, and to share in Heidi's daily-life experiences and page-turning adventures holds attention to the very end of the book, which ends happily, much to the reader's relief. Heidi is a character all young girls should get to know...
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Summary: Never underestimate the power of curious innocense
Review: Heidi is ranked up there with, "Where the Red Fern Grows" with it's genuine love and care of the hearts of children and adults. I read this book to my children when they were in 1st and K...several times I had to stop to choke back the tears.. or laugh in exhuberance. It's a heart-warming tale of a little girl who didn't understand the "status quo" and sought to make sense of not only her own world, but those around her. Her innocense, genuine love and acceptance is so moving and so inspiring.
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Summary: I love it more each year
Review: Heidi is surely one of the most engaging characters any pen of any era could create. As a child, I loved that one whose short life (she is five at the outset) had contained much tragedy was completely natural, had no fear, openly cared for others (even for animals), and had a wisdom and independence that was charming rather than impetuous. Though I doubt I'd have articulated it in this way as a child, this book is a very moving depiction of faith and trust in God and His providence. The "prodigal son" grandfather, the old doctor, Peter's grandmother, and Clara (who is disabled not because of physical infirmity as much as the fears of her elders), all are touched by this wonderful character's faith. Not in the least preachy, and in a setting that makes even a two hour climb on a steep mountain seem appealing, this timeless book is a true classic.
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Summary: Heidi .... it's just great
Review: Heidi is very exciting. She is very outgoing and adventurous. She gets sent to the Alm Mts. with her grumpy old grandfather. She shows him how to be nice and friendly. She meets a boy named Peter and they become good friends. He then shows her his family. Heidi meets his grandmother and falls in love with her and everything that she does. She then gets sent to a weird house.She soon came home.
This book is recommended for all ages to be read to or read by you!
Why am I telling you this go read it for your self!!!
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Summary: Call Of The Alps
Review: I encountered Heidi through TV animation series "Heidi__the Girl In The Alps" with Hayao Miyasaki involved. So reading this story makes me flash back the scenes of the TV series vividly. It is truly heartwarming and is based on real-life situation during late 19th century. While the Sound of Music is another excellent story on Austrian side of the Alps this is unrivalled Swiss side Alps story. Heidi is really a nice pure girl softening the mind of the Aunt Alps who is known as reserved person and eventually heals the Clara who has been confined to the wheelchair. The well-known Ghost story is truly showing well how seriously Heidi has suffered from homesickness and how strong the pull of the Alps life had been to Heidi. While during 19th century abuse of the children was the concern of the society. This surely was a source of hope for deprived children just like Heidi. Such dynamic reversal of the situation is what this story makes great not just for children but for adults as well. Major complaints for Children's classic are
1.Description of Alps life. Maybe Miyasaki's research has been far better than the writer so TV animation series is more exact I think. Spyri's description lack the fierceness of the nature to take some balance.
2. Peter's jealously is weak as a plot and last part's asking for repentence is a bit of dull. But even with that this is a wonderful original story for Heidi the TV series that has been rerun in Europe. Heidi's constant anxiety whether Peter's Gramma is still alive is the part I like most. Readers should share Heidi's anxiety I am sure.
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Summary: She live in the alpes then goes to Frankfurt with aunt Dete.
Review: I have not finish the book yet, but it is a good book so far. The book is about a young girl named Heidi who was batized when she was very young, and her mother's sister, Dete took her to the swiss alpes were Heidi's grandfather lives. Her grandfather doesn't like to go down the mountain were he lives to vist people nor he likes to talk to anyone. When Heidi comes she meets a boy named Peter, who take care of all the goats inculeding the grandfather's two goats. Then after awalie her aunt Dete comes to talk her to Frankfurt were Dete lives and one of her workers family member a tweleve year old girl is in a weelchair and wants someone about her age to be her friend and playmate.
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Summary: A wonderful book not just for youngsters, but adults too!
Review: I just can't put the book down once I started it. Reading the book makes me long once again for the innocent in mind of being a child, and especially a child like Heidi, who, despite her young age, already know how to care about others and how to put others' needs before her own (a good example is how she spent her money to buy white bread for grandmother). Plus, this is also a wonderful religious book for children who want to know more about God. Aside from these, the incredible descriptions of the beautiful and awesome mountain scenery in the book is wonderful too. It can just enhance your imagination while reading the book yourself.
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Summary: i have a copy from 1926
Review: i just want to find out the value of the book i have copyright in 1926 by J.H Sears & company inc New York
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