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Heidi is the story of an orphan girl who changes the lives of everyone fortunate enough to know her. What makes these read-on-your-own books different than ones you’ll find elsewhere? modern American spelling a dictionary with vocabulary from the book vocabulary words underlined in the text occasional helps with explanations or pictures reading tips light editing for content (in some books) scanning errors removed The Genesis Curriculum and the Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool (EP) are 180 days of ready-to-go lessons for Christian homeschoolers. Quality books were chosen for the EP curriculum and put into readers along with the 180 days of assignments from the EP site. The Genesis Curriculum Rainbow Readers take these same books and separates them to stand alone from the online curriculum. The Genesis Curriculum was created to be used one-room schoolhouse style. The children are read the lessons and interact through discussions and activities. Find us online at genesiscurriculum.com. Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool is an online curriculum and was created for children to use independently. It uses videos and games as part of the children's daily work. Find us online at allinonehomeschool.com.

The story of an irrepressible orphan girl in the Swiss Alps, written in 1881, has long been one of the most beloved and best-selling children's classics in the world. This hardcover edition features a gilt spine, a silk ribbon marker, and beautiful full-color illustrations by Austrian artist William Sharp.Heidi's story begins when she is orphaned at the age of five and sent to live with her reclusive, embittered grandfather on a mountainside above a Swiss village. Heidi's grandfather has been estranged from the villagers for years and he resents the child's arrival, but she wins his affection with her enthusiasm and cheer. Her rural idyll is cruelly interrupted, however, when her aunt sends her to the city to be a hired companion to a wealthy girl in a wheelchair. Clara is delighted by her new friend, but the family's strict housekeeper tries to repress Heidi's high spirits and the girl begins to waste away, pining for her mountain home. The resolution of Heidi's dilemma transforms the lives of everyone around her and has entranced readers for generations with its vision of the joys of country life and the power of love and friendship.

This edition contains color illustrations by Maria L. Kirk.Written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, the Heidi books are the best known works of Swiss literature. The story focuses on events in the life a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Just as she is beginning to get used to her surroundings, Heidi is sent away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Much more than a children's story, the story is also a lesson on the nature of freedom.

Heidi a young orphan girl is sent to live with her grumpy old grandfather in the Swiss Alps. She enjoys her new life with new friends, especially Peter who looks after the goats. Heidi’s lively spirit and loving ways endear her to those around her. She cares deeply about other people and their problems and desires make the lives of those around her better. She is then taken away to live as companion to a disabled older girl Clara and although she enjoys the company of Clara and her grandmother, who teaches her about the good shepherd, Heidi misses her life with her grandfather and longs to return. When she is able to go back to her beloved home in the mountains she invites Clara for a visit and a wonderful transformation takes place. Charmingly Illustrated.

At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi – fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows – takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return. She adores her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds, but one terrible day Heidi is collected by her aunt and forced to live with a new family in town. Heartbroken by the loss of her Alpine life, she must do everything she can to return to her grandfather.Written as a book 'for children and those who love children', Johanna Spyri’s affectionate account of Swiss mountain life is one of the bestselling books ever written, and a joyous portrait of the innocence of childhood.This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Heidi is translated by Marian Edwardes and features charming line-drawn illustrations, and an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

When Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps, she soon learns to live in perfect harmony with her surroundings, leading a carefree life with her constant companion, Peter, a young goatherd. But her happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for the sick Clara. Although she becomes fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. Will she ever be able to return to the Alps and the happiness she once knew with her friends? Johanna Spyri’s touching story of the adventures of a young Swiss girl is one of the most popular children’s stories ever written. Heidi’s pleasure in the beauty of the Swiss mountains and her rich relationships with her friends and family are perfectly evoked in this warm and lively full-cast radio dramatization.2 CDs. 1 hr 47 mins.