
It would take many years before her work was published, however. While the couple was living in Zurich, she began to tell stories to their son to amuse him, and her husband encouraged her to set them to paper. In 1852, when Johanna was 25, she married a former schoolmate, Bernhard Spyri, who became an attorney. The Huessers opened their home to the intellectual and literary figures of that time and place. Her father was a well-known and greatly beloved physician in Zurich. Her mother, Meta Huesser, was a popular songwriter and poet. Additionally, I promised myself that if I have a chance, I will share my good experience from this book and recommend it to people who I care.Johanna Spyri (J– July 7, 1901) born Johanna Louise Heusser, was a Swiss author best known for her first and most successful book, the 1881 children’s novel Heidi.īorn in rural Hirzel, not far from Zurich, she grew up in a happy, cultured home in a literary environment. There are only happy examples that I received from reading this book. In this book, you will also be happy with a lovely and caring girl, beautiful natural scenes, and sincere friendships. The grandfather answered this question that this light occurs because sun want to warmly say goodbye to a mountain, and let a mountain know that the sun will come back to meet it again tomorrow.

A lovely girl came back his hut with a lot of questionsĪbout environments that she found, and one of them was why bright and warm orange light shines after a beautiful mountain when sunset. In addition, I still remember one scene that shows his kindliness. However, a lovely and caring girl could live with him.

In this story, you will follow adventures of a little girl named Heidi. Her parents passed away when she was young thus, she had to live with her grandfather who is an isolated old man and no one in his village can talk with him. In essence, I received much of happiness when I read the story. This book is my favourite book because I always smile and am very happy when I read it and I can repeatedly read it again and again without boring. Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written. It was written as a book “for children and those who love children”.

It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather’s care, in the Swiss Alps.

Heidi is a work of children’s fiction published in 1881 by SwissĪuthor Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she learned.
