Heidi Grows Up

I will never reread this because I would probably hate it, but GOD did I love this story when I was a kid. I read it before I read the first Heidi book, and I think that ruined my enjoyment of the first. I adore this book, even though it's basically fanfiction, and I love finding out what happened to all the characters I loved the first time round. I laughed, I cried, I cheered when Peter and Heidi finally get married. It's not great writing, but I don't even care.

I will never reread this because I would probably hate it, but GOD did I love this story when I was a kid. I read it before I read the first Heidi book, and I think that ruined my enjoyment of the first. I adore this book, even though it's basically fanfiction, and I love finding out what happened to all the characters I loved the first time round. I laughed, I cried, I cheered when Peter and Heidi finally get married. It's not great writing, but I don't even care.

I will never reread this because I would probably hate it, but GOD did I love this story when I was a kid. I read it before I read the first Heidi book, and I think that ruined my enjoyment of the first. I adore this book, even though it's basically fanfiction, and I love finding out what happened to all the characters I loved the first time round. I laughed, I cried, I cheered when Peter and Heidi finally get married. It's not great writing, but I don't even care.

The snobby girls at the fashionable boarding school ridicule Heidi's "peasant" ways and laugh at her. But Heidi's spirits never dampen for long, because she lives for her dream to finish her studies and return to her own village in the Swiss Alps as a school teacher.

This was another of my mother's great ability to buy the second book in a series. I liked this one a lot though and I kept looking for the orifinal Heidi. When I finally read Heidi it was a bit of a let down. Not from any problem wirth the book itsweld. I juat had built iir up so much that anything would have had difficulty matching my expectations. As an adult though I see the same medicine doing amazing healing as in the Secret Garden (although there is less British exceptionalism in Heidi... for obvious reasons). Mostly just my hang-up. Read both and enjoy. I didn't know about the continued series so 'all have to fit them in so I can lwearn moerw of Heidi.

Perhaps not quite as good as the original Heidi but still excellent.

does feel like Heidi. has references here and there to the original, as little reminders and (i suppose) in case someone hasn't read the original. no one is irredeemably evil, people and goats are very sweet, the alpine venue is healing, bracing, and breathtaking, and both food and mountain-dwellers are simple, healthful, and inherently good. a quick read for a grown-up.