DK Readers: Heidi (Level 3: Reading Alone) (DK READERS LEVEL 3) - Hardcover

Coats, Lucy; Spyri, Johanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789457032 ISBN 13: 9780789457035

Publisher: Dk Pub, 2000

Synopsis

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. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.A Swiss orphan must leave her grandfather and their home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city, as notes throughout the text explain the background of the story.

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Review:

Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger

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About this edition

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0789457032
• ISBN 13: 9780789457035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Venus Pamela