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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)

Johanna Spyri

Start date: March 1, 2019

Finish date: March 31, 2019

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Apr 04, 2019 Audrey marked it as duplicates · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle

I’ve finally gotten around to reading this old classic. It’s pretty simple, being a children’s book, and paints a rather rosy picture of life. It’s meant to teach children a moral, too. It’s also a love letter to the Swiss Alps. I got kind of bored with the constant descriptions of grass and flowers.

Heidi is loved by everybody wherever she goes, except for a couple cranky characters. I was mad at them for telling her that kids don’t have real problems. The second half gets more religious, and i ...more

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Jan 23, 2015 Sara rated it liked it

This is the second time recently that I have gone back to revisit a book from my childhood. I think it might be the last. I find that for the most part my distant memories of these books are more pleasing than the reality of reading them at such an advanced age.

This book was sweet, but very unrealistic and unsatisfying. The child is too good, the characters too underdeveloped and the miracle too preposterous for my adult tastes. I think I will leave all the other childhood books that beacon my ...more

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May 20, 2019 Audrey rated it liked it

Shelves: drama-romance-contemporary, 2019-books

Looks like a duplicate in the system.

I’ve finally gotten around to reading this old classic. It’s pretty simple, being a children’s book, and paints a rather rosy picture of life. It’s meant to teach children a moral, too. It’s also a love letter to the Swiss Alps. I got kind of bored with the constant descriptions of grass and flowers.

Heidi is loved by everybody wherever she goes, except for a couple cranky characters. I was mad at them for telling her that kids don’t have real problems. The s ...more

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Feb 20, 2021 Ashley W rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-children, genre-classics, 0stand-alone, 301-400-pages

Sweet, little Heidi is shuffled around. That is pretty much the plot.
However, along the way, everyone falls in love with her. First, her grumpy grandfather, who is hardened from life alone. Then little Clara, who Heidi is brought to town to comfort in her "illness." I do think she and Peter will eventually be together as he is already so protective and attached to her and she loves to have fun with him. High points are her returning to her grandfather after she has withered away to nearly nothin ...more

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