Spyri, Johanna – The Bell Bookshop

Heidi

Emma — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this new resized edition of Heidi, complete with a bold new cover.

‘Let’s enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.’

Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mountains and is determined to return to the happiness of life with her grandfather.

Heidi

Emma — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

When Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, is dumped on her reclusive grandfather who lives on a remote mountainside above a Swiss village, he is none too pleased by her arrival. But Heidi quickly wins him over with her cheerful disposition and kindness, and thoroughly enjoys her new life, spending the summer days roaming the Alpine pastures with young Peter the goatherd. Three years later, this rural idyll is cruelly interrupted when her aunt fetches Heidi away to the city as a hired companion for Clara, a rich girl who is disabled. Clara adores her new friend, but the family’s strict housekeeper tries to repress Heidi’s high spirits and she becomes ill, pining for her mountain home. The resolution of Heidi’s dilemma transforms the lives of everyone around her and has entranced readers for generations with its vision of the joys of country life and the power of love and friendship.

Heidi

Emma — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Written as a book ‘for children and those who love children’, Johanna Spyri’s affectionate account of Swiss mountain life is one of the bestselling books ever written, and a joyous portrait of the innocence of childhood.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Heidi is translated by Marian Edwardes and features charming line-drawn illustrations, and an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham.

At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi – fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows – takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return. She adores her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds, but one terrible day Heidi is collected by her aunt and forced to live with a new family in town. Heartbroken by the loss of her Alpine life, she must do everything she can to return to her grandfather.

Heidi

Emma — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

‘I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!’

When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather, everyone in the village feels sorry for her. What will a little girl do in such an isolated home, and with such a grumpy companion? But Heidi soon discovers a secret: Grandfather isn’t nearly as cross as he looks – plus she can play all day in the fields among the bright flowers. But then Heidi is whisked away again to be a companion to a injured girl in the city. She longs for her beautiful mountain home – how will she ever get back again?

BACKSTORY: Find out which character you most resemble and try out some Heidi-inspired activities!