HEIDI: Gift Edition by JOHANNA SPYRI Hard Cover

This volume is one of a series listed as “Stories All Children Love,” and described as “a set of children’s classics that should be in every home and summer cottage.” Heidiis by far the most popular piece of Swiss literature ever written and has been translated from German into 50 languages, been filmed more than a dozen times, and more than 50 million copies of Heidi books have been sold world-wide. The orphan child Heidifirst lives with her aunt Dete, but Dete would like to concentrate on her career. So she brings Heidi to her grandfather, a queer old man living in an alpine cottage far from the next village . Alm-Uncle is good-hearted but mistrusts anybody and wants to keep the child from all evils of the world. So he refuses to send Heidi to school; instead she goes to the pastures, together with Peter, a shepherd boy looking after the goats.