Written by Johanna Spyri · Adapted by Deidre S. Laiken · Illustrated by Pablo Marcos Studio
Part of the Great Illustrated Classics series
An orphan's happy mountain life ends when she is sent away to the city.
Orphaned Heidi is sent to live with her gruff grandfather high in the Swiss Alps, where she grows to love the mountains, the goats and her friend Peter. Then she is taken to a city household to keep company with Clara, a girl who cannot walk, and homesickness sets in. This abridged Great Illustrated Classics edition retells Johanna Spyri's novel with illustrations throughout.
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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