Heidi

Published Dec. 8, 1899 by LeRoy Phillips.

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4 stars (1 review)

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains, to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

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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 …

Subjects

  • Grandfathers -- Fiction.
  • Mountain life -- Fiction.
  • Orphans -- Fiction.
  • Switzerland -- Fiction.

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