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Read It Yourself: Level Four: Heidi


Read it Yourself

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No. of pages 48

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Great for age 6-11 years
Designed for children learning to read, this book retells Heidi in lively, natural language to help children develop the confidence to read alone. Level Four is suitable for children who are ready to read longer stories with a wider vocabulary.

 

This book is part of a book series called Read It Yourself .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Shirley Isherwood has written many other books for children published by, amongst others, Andersen Press. She lives in Manchester. Anna C Leplar has illustrated many very successful books for children and she lives in Iceland. Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi.

This book contains the following story:

Heidi
After her parents die, Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather. Heidi is scared but things are not as bad as they first appear. Every day she plays in the field with the friendly goat boy and at the end of each she eats her grandfather's delicious cheese and bread and drinks his creamy goats milk. Then she climbs into the hayloft and falls asleep under the stars. One day her aunt returns and demands that Heidi return with her to the city as a companion to a crippled girl, Clara. Heidi likes Clara but she pines for her life with her grandfather and Clara's family worry about her. One day they take both Clara and Heidi to the mountain home for a visit. Clara is so delighted with the village that she is allowed to stay with Heidi and her grandfather. Every day Clara and Heid play in the field with the friendly goat boy, Peter, and at the end of each they eat grandfather's delicious cheese and bread and drink his creamy goats milk. But Peter is jealous and pushes Clara's wheelchair down the mountain. Clara is forced to learn to walk. When her parents return to collect her they are overjoyed at her progress.

This book is in the following series:

Read it Yourself

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