Product Description Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the SwissAlps by her aunt Detie. She soon begins to enjoy her life with grandfather and falls in love with nature.Heidi never stops being in awe of the sights and the sounds of the Swiss Alps. Very soon she is taken away to Frankfurt her aunt, to be a companion to a rich, Lonely girl Clara forges a deep friendship with her. While staying there, she facesmany challenges and deals with them in her innocent andchild-like way. About the Author Johanna Spyri (12 June 1827-7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of children’s stories and is best known for her book Heidi. She was born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland. In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer. While living in Zurich she began to write about life in the country. Her first story, A Note on Vrony’s Grave, which deals with a woman’s life of domestic violence, was published in 1880; the following year, further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi. Heidi is the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps and is famous for its vivid portrayal of that landscape. She wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. An icon in Switzerland, Spyri’s portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951.