| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 17 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Illustrated junior library.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Patricia Santomasso. |
| Summary |
Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi's grandfather, and there with him the girl's sweet, free nature expands with the vista. The author's voice is straightforward, and so is our reader's, with the child's wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn't make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Heidi (Fictitious character from Spyri) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction.
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Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Alps -- Juvenile fiction.
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Switzerland -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grandfathers -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Mountain life -- Fiction.
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Orphans -- Fiction.
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Switzerland -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Dole, Helen B., translator.
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Sharp, William, 1900-1961, illustrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781955263290 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1955263299 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14113316 |
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