Book review of Heidi Great Illustrated Classics edition. This is an adapted version by Deidre S. Laiken of the classic book Heidi by Johanna Spyri. This is part of Josie’s Joyful Book Reviews for Kids.
Full Title: Heidi
Author: Deidre S. Laiken (the original Heidi classic was written by Johanna Spyri)
Genre: Children’s Fiction / Classic Literature, inspired by the real Swiss Alps
Series: Great Illustrated Classics
Waldman Publishing has published 66 classic titles in the Great Illustrated Classics. They are a collection of books with black-and-white illustrations and adapted for younger readers.
Book Summary
Heidi is a loveable orphan girl, who lives with her Grandfather in the grand Swiss Alps.
Detie brings 5-year-old Heidi to live with her grandfather in the mountains. She adores the mountains and Grandfather. He lets her go with Peter and the goats up the mountain.
She makes friends with all the goats and learns their names. She also desperately wants to see Grandmother and asks her Grandfather until he says yes.
After two years, Detie comes back and says that she has found a “proper” home for Heidi in the city.
In the city, Heidi meets Clara, and a friendship blossoms. Heidi doesn’t very much like the city, but she makes the best of it.
Thanks to Cara’s Grandmother, she learns to read. But Heidi is terribly homesick and wants to go home so much that she starts sleepwalking.
Will Heidi ever see her mountain home again?
Josie’s Thoughts on this Book
This is an amazing book, and I give it 5/5 stars! I love it because I love stories about wildlife, adventurous girls, and when characters have to overcome difficulties.
I think you will love this book too, especially if you like reading about adventurous girls and nature.
Similar Books and Recommendations
Other books I think you might like similar to Heidi are:
- Little House in the Big Woods, Book 1 of the Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Understood Besty by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
- A Little Princess, Classic Starts, Retold from the Frances Hodgson Burnett Original
- Anne of Green Gables
- Rebecca of Sunnybook Farm, Great Illustrated Classics
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