Heidi Her Years Of Wandering And Learning

It is fair to say that 'Heidi' is a phenomenon. The novel about a five-year-old girl living with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps has been on the high school reading list of millions of children. More than 50 million copies of the book have been shifted since it was published. Author Johanna Spyri rightly calls it "a book for children and those who love children". 'Heidi' finds herself orphaned and living with her bad-tempered grandfather, who has fallen out with his neighbours and also refuses to send Heidi to school. Her kindness gradually melts her granddad's heart, but she is then taken away to be a companion for a wheelchair-bound girl named Klara, whose home features the monstrous bully of a housekeeper, Fraulein Rottenmeier. The strictness crushes Heidi's spirit and she longs to return to her grandfather. Will this beautiful story of redemption and friendship have a happy ending? If you like 'Anne of Green Gables' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, you will love 'Heidi'. Johanna Louise Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss novelist, known largely for her children’s books. After marrying a lawyer and moving to Zurich, Spyri began to write about life in the countryside, where she had been brought up. Her first story, 'A Leaf on Vrony's Grave', described a woman's life of domestic violence. Her breakthrough novel was 'Heidi', which she wrote in four weeks. It tells the story of a young girl being raised in the Alps by her grandfather. Tragedy struck in 1884, when Spyri's husband and only child, both called Bernhard, died. She dedicated the rest of her life to charitable works and wrote 50 more stories. Some of her other novels include 'The Story of Rico', 'Veronica and Other Friends', 'Cornelli', and 'Little Miss Grasshopper'.

This is Book 3, Collection III, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions. Text Information Readability | 81.6 Total word count | 23513 Words beyond 1500 | 595 Unknown word percentage (%) | 2.53 Unknown headword occurrence | 2.45 Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 23 Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 124 Synopsis Heidi is a little Swiss orphan girl. When she is five years old, she is taken by her aunt to live with her grandfather. His home is high up on the mountain slopes; he has quarrelled with those who live down below in the village, where he is known as “Uncle Alp”. Grandfather and Heidi get on very well together, and she settles happily into her new home. When Heidi is eight years old, her aunt, who is working in Frankfurt, Germany, comes to see her. She takes Heidi to live in Frankfurt as a companion to a twelve-year-old girl called Clara Sesemann, who is unable to walk. Clara, her father, and her Grandmamma all become very fond of the little Swiss girl. Will the little girl return to her grandfather again? This book is rewritten from “Heidi” by Johanna Spyri, a Swiss-born author of novels and best known for her children’s stories. “Heidi” is her best-known book and about 20 film or television productions of the original story have been made.

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned.

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle).

Excerpt from Heidi, Her Years of Wandering and Learning: A Story for Children and Those Who Love Children From the pleasant village of Mayenfeld a path leads through green fields, richly covered with trees, to the foot of the mountain, which from this side overhangs the valley with grave and solemn aspect. Where the path begins to grow steeper, begins also the heath with its short grass; and the perfume of sweet mountain plants seems to advance as if welcoming the traveller. From this spot the footpath rises almost perpendicularly to the summit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.