Heidi (Children’s Classics) by Johanna Spyri (Epub)

Description

The story of Heidi was written over one hundred years ago, however, it is far from a period piece. In the Swiss Alps, where it is set, a hundred years is just the blink of an eye. We see in her the daughter that every mother dreams of having and every little girl dreams of being. Her presence makes us happy, and so her story has endured. This deluxe Children’s Classic edition is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with gold stamping, full-color covers, colored endpapers with a book nameplate. Some of the other titles in this series include: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, King Arthur and His Knights, Little Women, and The Secret Garden.

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⭐ Beware, the beauty of literature is not in this edition! THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE PUFFIN IN BLOOM EDITION ONLY. Heidi is such an awesome story, the translation by Helen Dole reads so beautifully and engages the reader to follow closely along, to interact and enter into the adventure. This book has short sentences, as if to hand feed the reader so that they don’t need to pay attention or engage. In other words- it’s a dumbed-down translation!! Please don’t deprive young readers of good literature! There is a place for simplified versions of books BUT that should be clear when purchasing that it isn’t the original version and writing has been altered. This book changes the names of characters too. It is a travesty!! So, if all you want is a “pretty” cover – fine, but even the inside illustrations aren’t good – it saddened me and I sent it back. Thank you, Amazon for ease of returns. Please be aware that Amazon sells different editions translated differently. Perhaps you’ll find a new edition that is better than this one. I’m very happy with the used copy I found on Amazon with a copy write date of 1945. The illustrations are wonderful and the language is beautiful, and the names are not Americanized. The Puffin in Bloom edition has a character named Barbie.

⭐ I got as far as the title page in this book where it listed the author (Johanna Spyri) and the translator, Elisabeth P. Stork. Heidi was originally translated into English by Charles Tritten (who later wrote 2 sequels – “Heidi Grows Up” and “Heidi’s Children”). This is NOT the version of Heidi that I grew up with and NOT what I wanted. It is going back immediately and I’ve already ordered another copy, this time with the translation done by Tritten. A search on Amazon for “Heidi translated by Charles Tritten” turns up a listing for the book with the original translation.

⭐ This book is illegible. Punctuation in the wrong places, headings mid-paragraph, letters replaced with punctuation… It’s awful. Don’t buy this version. We were excited about this book but we will be sending this copy back for one we can actually read. 0 stars.

⭐ Review of “Heidi”Hot Toasty Rag, October 5, 2018I grew up, along with every other little girl in America, watching the Shirley Temple version of Heidi. In my twenties, I rented the 1968 tv-movie version, and I was appalled by the changes in the story. How dare they! I thought. Well, I recently read the original novel, and I must apologize. The Shirley Temple version doesn’t follow the book very well. All the “changes” were taken straight from the book.A little orphan girl is taken to live with her scary grandfather in the Swiss Alps. He’s a social outcast, but she wins him over because she’s so delightful. Her adventures continue as she meets new friends, including a blind village woman, a local goatherd, and an invalid wealthy child.Even though this is an incredibly popular children’s book, I couldn’t imagine reading it as a child. It’s very dry, and much of Heidi’s activities seem repetitive without leading to a greater goal. I didn’t like the original novel, and the next time I crave a little Heidi, I’ll stick to Shirley.

⭐ My heart just melted. When I was around 12 I think I had 2 Children classic books. This one Robbin Hood and this one that I ordered Heidi. The Heidi book was lost and it’s just bothered me for year that I didn’t have it. Ppl would talk to me about my cool Robbin Hood book and I would say it use to be Robbin and Heidi. I would tell them about the Heidi book. I looked on Amazon and sure enough they had the exact book. It looks just like my Robbin Hood book. I opened it to look at all the familiar pictures and my heart just melted. You know how kids have a favorite stuffed animal. Well for years I traveled around with a backpack with these two books and Tigger and Pooh. I didn’t want to be with out them. I really love having them both together again. Thank you.

⭐ My father bought me a copy of Heidi when I was five. I still have this book. He read it to me again and again until he decided I could read well enough to do it on my own. I have read Heidi periodically all my life, 70 years later. Whenever I read Heidi, I want to drink milk out of a wooden bowl and joyfully shout Grandfather! grandfather! I am very fond of goats!Read this book about an orphan girl and her love for her life in the Swiss Alps with her grandfather, Peter, the grandmother, and the goats. It will brighten your day, your week, your year, your life! Buy it for a child you love and read it with them!

⭐ I read an abridged version of this well known story as a child and one chilly spring night decided to read it again. Within a few pages I was taken off to the alps with Heidi as she struggled up the long mountain trail bundled in too many clothes to meet her formidable grandfather. The magic of this simple story kept me reading late into the night. Sometimes revisiting childhood favorites is disappointing but this one was not. There are certainly some sour notes, some details are highly improbable, and at times the tone gets overly sweet or preachy but overall this is a very enjoyable tale that has held up very well.The kindle edition of this was well done, no terrible formatting errors to distract from the narrative. There are no illustrations included in this version, leaving the reader to rely on their own imagination to picture the scenes Spyri has so vividly described. Maybe it is better that way.

⭐ This review pertains to the Puffin in Bloom edition of Heidi, rather than to the literary merit of the book or translation (by Eileen Hall).The cover illustration is done by Anna Bond who may be better known for her lovely stationery collection, Rifle Paper Co. The cover is a vibrant yellow-green with the title in gold embossing over a floral-framed mountain scene. The back cover features a pull-out quote – “Heidi looked around with growing delight at the mountain peaks she knew so well and which seemed to greet her like old friends.”The interior illustrations, taken from the 1956 edition of Heidi also published by Puffin, are charmingly vintage. There appears to be one illustration per chapter. The book is typeset in Minion and just the right size to be accessible to both children and adults.This edition also includes end notes with a profile of Johanna Spyri, information about Switzerland, and brief character and reading guides.This would make a special addition to any growing library.

⭐ I ordered this book for a computer challenged friend who wanted to give it to her great-granddaughters. She had fond memories of her own girlhood copy of “Heidi” which was a substantial hard-back book. This edition of “Heidi’ was the only one available at Amazon.com that had the entire original text and was not abridged or adapted for younger children. In that respect, the book did live up to its promise. However, it was cheaply and shoddily made, the pages were thin and looked as if they had been printed on a computer, and it does not look as if it will hold up for more than one reading. In addition, there was a blemish on the cover of the book. She is very disappointed in the quality of the book and is hesitant to send it to the little girls — whose mother will be reading the book to them and who will be aware of the book’s physical imperfections. As to the seller, the book arrived well within the expected time frame and was well packaged.

⭐ Heidi, by Johanna Spyri, is a children’s classic. It has an old-fashioned feel, but most readers (children and adults as well) are rewarded once they sink into the story. Heidi is a little girl who has been orphaned and brought up by her older sister. When the sister gets a chance to at a job, she literally dumps Heidi with her grandfather (a bitter old man known as the Alm Uncle because he lives high in the Swiss alps). Heidi wins the heart of her grandfather and has a happy two years running wild and free in the alps. Then the sister reappears and demands that Heidi come with her and be a ‘companion’ to Clara, another young, invalid girl who lives in the city. There is a clash of the values–the love of life and freedom Heidi has experienced up in the alps versus big city values…will Heidi win out and return to the Alm Uncle? All Johanna Spyri’s books are about the author’s beloved Swiss alps and are populated with wonderful children, but Heidi is the best of all her books and the most read. Heartily recommended! Almost better than a Swiss summer vacation in the alps, and a lot easier to get!

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