Spyri, Johanna (, 1827-1901)

Heidi / Joanna Spyri ; translated by Helen B. Dole and illustrated by William Sharp - New York : Grossset and Dunlap , 1996, c1945 - 327 p. ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm

A simple story that takes place in the Swiss Alps, Heidi goes up into the mountain to live with Grandfather, a gruff old man with a heart of gold, and spends many idyllic days helping Peter the goatherd. She is sent to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid girl, but is so homesick that she returns to Grandfather and her beloved mountain. Eventually Clara comes to visit and learns to walk.

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Grandfathers----Fiction
Mountain life----Fiction
Orphans----Juvenile fiction


Switzerland----Fiction

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