Heidi

Paperback, 201 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 1982 by Scholastic Pulications Ltd., London.

ISBN:
978-0-590-70189-1
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OCLC Number:
862134106

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4 stars (1 review)

"Heidi was so happy living with her grandfather on the mountain. She loved to walk in the green pastures, tending the goats and talking to Peter the goatherd. But her happiness was not to last. Her aunt took her away to live in the busy, grey town of Frankfurt, where Heidi wasted away wondering if she would ever return to the mountains ..."--Back cover.

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Review of 'Heidi (Kingfisher Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

We're working our meandering way through the great western cannon of children's literature. Heidi is an interesting story. It's surprisingly repetitious, but that's part of the charm, I think. You really get into the cadence of life on the mountain. I like a feel-good story that gives me that vicarious thrill as our main character helps people and this has that, but not always in ways I expected. There was a religious aspect I wasn't expecting and I braced myself at one point because it looked like it was about to get real heavy-handed, but it didn't. Most of the characters were quite interesting and acted on motivations that were consistent but not always obvious (sometimes leaving us to guess what they were thinking, sometimes not). The humor was spare but much appreciated.

This is no Anne of Green Gables, but I liked it well enough and so did my …

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