Heidi (Readings Classics)

Heidi is a life changer. An orphan child of five, she is sent to live with her gruff grandfather in the Swiss Alps who is soon found changing his grumpy ways in her company. She befriends young Peter, a goatherd, and he is never the same. Peter s blind grandmother is ecstatic when Heidi is around. Three years later, she is sent to Frankfurt to help invalid Klara who can t but feel her charm. However, Heidi is not happy in the city. She misses her free life in the mountains and wants to return to them. Will she be able to change her own life too? Let s see! Set in the idyllic Alps, Heidi is a most popular children s story. It has been translated in nearly all major languages around the world. It has also been adapted for visual media on a number of occasions.