‘Heidi taught me that if I want a friend, I have to be a friend first’
This beautiful and charming story is about an orphaned girl named Heidi who is sent away from her aunt to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Heidi’s grandfather is a cold-hearted and mean man at the beginning. However, as they get to know each other, the love between Heidi and her grandfather grows so strong they cannot be separated. Every morning up in the mountains with Peter, the goat-herder and Heidi’s best friend, is a day to look forward to.
Life in the mountains is perfect and it all seems too good to be true, and it is when Heidi is suddenly taken away from her beloved grandfather and mountains to be a playmate for Clara, an invalid young girl who can’t walk. Heidi has to travel very far to Frankfurt where Clara lives, and is dismayed by the grey, dreary and gloomy streets. Heidi makes a good playmate and friend to Clara, but she can’t get over her homesickness and longs for the mountains where everything is green and fresh. Clara’s father realises that Heidi is very sick and doesn’t know what to do, so he sends for his doctor friend, who tells him that Heidi must return to the mountains. Finally, after what seems like forever, Heidi is sent back to the mountains where she belongs.
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