By: Johanna SPYRI (1827 - 1901)
Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the
Swiss mountain slopes. 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.
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. 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. The
author’s voice is straightforward, and so is our reader’s, with the
child’s wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. 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. All she
learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds
that will grow to benefit everyone around her. (Summary by Anita)
Genre(s): General
Language: English
Running Time: 9:45:20
file size: 268MB
Catalog date: 2006-05-08
Read by: Kara Shallenberg
Book Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg
Coordinator: Kara Shallenberg
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