I can relate to Heidi in that aspect, as it is always difficult when you are away from your family and what you best know.Īs a classroom extension, I would have the children write a paragraph about a time that they have traveled or been away from their family, and draw a picture of what they wrote about. Before long, Clara begins to regain her health while visiting Heidi.Īs a young girl, I spent a few years with a foster family and was very homesick to be living with my father again. Heidi's aunt decided to pack her stuff and send her back to her grandfather to live, and Clara goes for a visit. Even though she has everything she needs, Heidi becomes homesick for her grandfather and the mountains and becomes very ill. Born in rural Switzerland to a doctor and a poet, she later lived in Zurich with her husband and son. While Heidi is there, she becomes a companion for her crippled cousin, Clara. Heidi by Johanna Spyri: 9780147514028 : Books The classic story of a little orphan girl in the Swiss Alps, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery. JOHANNA SPYRI (1827-1901) was a Swiss author. When Heidi comes of age to go to school, her aunt comes for her and takes her to live in Frankfurt, Germany. She spent her days with her grandfather and the goatherder, Peter, playing outside with the goats in the summer and inside watching her grandfather in the winter. Heidi is a young girl who is sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
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