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Heidi
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Krupinski has recreated Spyri's beloved story in a stunning picture book version that's just right for a younger reading audience. Capturing Heidi's unforgettably beautiful alpine world with lavish paintings, Krupinski also breathes new life into the favorite cast of characters, from Heidi's grandfather and Peter the goatherd to sickly Klara and Heidi herself. Full color.
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32 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1,1996
This edition
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32 pages, Hardcover
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August 1, 1996 by Harpercollins Childrens Books
- ISBN
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9780060234386
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0060234385
- Language
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English
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Loretta Krupinski (1940) is the author/illustrator of many cherished books for children and adults. Working for many years as an illustrator and graphic designer, Loretta has chosen to pursue a dual career as a maritime artist as well as an author and illustrator of books for children. She has won numerous awards for both. Among her 27 children's books are Dear Rebecca, Winter is Here by Jean Craighead George, The Old Ladies Who Liked Cats by Carol Greene, The Royal Mice: The Sword and the Horn, How a Seed Grows, by Helene J. Jordan, and her own Bluewater Journal: The Voyage of the Sea Tiger, and Pirate Treasure.
Living on the coast of Main as a studio painter, Loretta prefers to paint local harbors and classic wood boats. Her love of Maine has prompted special interest in historical paintings of the maritime industry. As a sailor herself, she has come to know first hand the subjects she chooses to paint. Her latest treasures, A Maine Artist's Garden Journal and Looking Astern: An Artist's View of Main's Historic Working Waterfronts are true labors of love and have received much aclaim.
Living on the coast of Main as a studio painter, Loretta prefers to paint local harbors and classic wood boats. Her love of Maine has prompted special interest in historical paintings of the maritime industry. As a sailor herself, she has come to know first hand the subjects she chooses to paint. Her latest treasures, A Maine Artist's Garden Journal and Looking Astern: An Artist's View of Main's Historic Working Waterfronts are true labors of love and have received much aclaim.
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50 11/24/14 Beautiful book! Great moral story with sweet characters. Definitely makes you want to visit Switzerland and dance around on the mountains. I enjoyed the simply stated but deeply theological explanation of suffering and charity.
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Excellent illustrations! Now we want to read the whole story.
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I got this in the mail today and got pretty disappointed, this book is pretty big, thin and the text is very small, I don’t even want to read it because I know I’ll get a head ache and I’m definitely returning this product.
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Reconciliation…what a beautiful concept. This thread runs throughout the story of Heidi. Hope …who can fully exist without it? Each of the characters finds, extends, or withdraws it to his or her own detriment. This is another thread running throughout the story. Joy…when desires are granted and wrongs made right is the third thread running throughout the book.I was totally taken with the story and observed how the threads were woven together to make a grand tapestry of this God-honoring story. I think this book is best suited for mid to upper elementary.
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Item arrived in great condition!! Happy with purchase :)
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Heidi ist ein zeitloses sehr gut geschriebenes Kinderbuch. Es ist genauso aktuell, als zur der Zeit es war, als es geschrieben wurde.
Ich habe dieses Buch als Kind gerbne geledsen uind auch meine Kinder hatten viel Freude danmit
Ich habe dieses Buch als Kind gerbne geledsen uind auch meine Kinder hatten viel Freude danmit
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We purchased this book in order my daughter to read and write a book report about the virtues and Christian-values through her Catholic Home School program. We chose this copy of the book because it was original and unabridged. Both my daughter and I read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is so superbly well-written, with bits of anticipation and humor along the way. Heidi is about an orphaned girl in Switzerland, whose aunt took care of her until she obtained a better job, and decided it was Heidi's grandfather's turn to keep her. Heidi's grandfather lived up the mountain in a bit of remote area, with the town of Dorfli a trek away. Heidi meets Peter and his mother and grandmother and spends time with Peter, taking the goats to pasture. Heidi's aunt decided to later take her from the grandfather, who came to love her, to be come a companion to an "invalid" girl, Clara, in Frankfurt. Although Heidi is younger than Clara, Clara delights in the funny and inspiring things that Heidi says and does, and they become good friends. Heidi suffered terribly as she missed Grandfather and her life in the mountains, but came to know those in Clara's life, including her grandmother, who taught her to have hope and keep praying to God, and the kind, good-hearted doctor who took care of Clara. Heidi's simplicity, and the way she looked at life, made her long the matched simplicity of the mountains and life with Grandfather. No spoilers here, but good things happen in the story! The characters are very well-defined, and Heidi touches the hearts of all who meet her. If you have seen any versions of Heidi in movie form, you are missing a lot from the book. As much as I like Shirley Temple, the producers of the version she starred in did a disservice to original Heidi book -- it is like looking at a whole different movie. (Disney later came out with a much closer account of the Heidi book as a movie in later years.) Everyone who reads Heidi will enjoy it and walk away with something that touches them -- something to recall and remember as their favorite part of the book.
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