Spyri, Johanna

This is an evocative picture book based on the beloved classic tale and retold for younger children.

Stories of a mountain boy and his friends

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.

A children's story from Switzerland. The story begins: The June sun was streaming down upon the green slope above the village of Leuk, and the fresh green grass which covered the heights as far as the eye could see filled the air with fragrance. At an isolated house along the path which led to the baths of Leuk, two women were lost in lively talk; indeed it seemed as if they could never come to the end of everything they had to say to each other.

A lively young girl loses her cheerful nature when her widowed father departs on a trip and leaves Cornelli in the care of his strict cousin.

After he reluctantly agrees to keep another boy's secret in exchange for the life of one of the goats he tends, Moni loses his cheerful disposition and love of singing until he finally decides to reveal the truth.

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.