![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn’t make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubnden, the setting she later would use in her novels. The author’s voice is straightforward, and so is our reader’s, with the child’s wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of children's stories, best known for Heidi. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi’s grandfather, and there with him the girl’s sweet, free nature expands with the vista. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. Collection Novels Johanna Spyri 23.00 Heidi Read Along: Bring the Classics to Life Book & CD Level 1 Johanna Spyri 5.79 - 6.09 Heidi Johanna Spyri 3.99 - 4.69 Moni the Goat Boy: And Other Stories Johanna Spyri 6.59 Moni the Goat Boy and Other Stories Johanna Spyri 12.99 - 17. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. Download cover art Download CD case insert Heidi ![]()
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