Comments on: Book Review: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

By: Rosalie

Rosalie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:01:02 +0000

I too read this book when I was younger. I started out with a cartoon, then got into an illustrated version, then a simplified one, then finally the original classic! I have to say though, no matther how many times I read it, I still love the story more as ever and it never gets boring.

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:22:39 +0000

I have to say I don’t like that new cover! The old one is better, in my own opinion. A few comments about the comments! Like Belle, I re-read Betsy-Tacy — LOVE those books! And the first comment about the football game just made me laugh, because I remember it so clearly. (I would have been on the side of watching the movie, by the way.) I just recently read about that incident, in fact, because it’s included in a new book about big-time sports mistakes: What Were They Thinking? “Brainless Blunders that Changed Sports History.” It’s a quite fun book for both hard-core and casual sports fans. Everyone likes to read about the mistakes that happen, after all! It covers all sports, took, not just football. (The Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan skating debacle is in there…)

Happy reading!

By: Genevieve Taylor

Genevieve Taylor — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:13:40 +0000

I remember the cartoon; the part I remember most in the cartoon movie is Clara standing up and learning to walk. That was lovely. I have never read the book, though – I wonder if that happened in the book too?

By: Belle

Belle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:43:16 +0000

I loved Heidi when I was little. It’s been so long since I’ve read it. It was always up there with the other books from my childhood, although for some reason I never re-read it much, not the way I did Anne of Green Gables or the Betsy & Tacy series.

By: Ruth @ Bookish Ruth

Ruth @ Bookish Ruth — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:25:46 +0000

My fourth grade teacher read this book aloud to our class. I always looked forward to the end of recess, because the next class was English and she would read a chapter of Heidi before getting into our curriculum.

By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness)

Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:24:43 +0000

I read this book when I was little, but I think I read the Great Illustrated Classics version. It’s sort of sad that most of my knowledge of the classics comes from those or from Wishbone

By: Jackie (Farm Lane Books)

Jackie (Farm Lane Books) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:22:58 +0000

I have never read Heidi. It is books like this that I really feel I should read. Thank you for reminding me about it. Good luck with the rest of your challenge.

By: rhapsodyinbooks

rhapsodyinbooks — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:24:44 +0000

I loved Heidi, but I remember the Shirley Temple version more than the book. My husband has no idea what the story is about, but knows Heidi well, from the 1968 football incident (described by Wikipedia: In professional American football, the Heidi Game (often referred to, facetiously, as the “Heidi Bowl”) refers to a famous American Football League (AFL) game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, played on November 17, 1968 in Oakland, California. This game is memorable largely as the result of a decision by the NBC television network to terminate the broadcast in the Eastern and Central time zones with 65 seconds left to play in the game in favor of broadcasting a pre-scheduled airing of Heidi, a new made-for-TV version of the classic children’s story. With the Jets leading 32-29 with only 65 seconds left in the game, NBC programmers, eager to maintain their evening schedule, switched off the ostensibly-decided game. However, the Raiders came back and scored 14 points, winning 43-32. Because of NBC’s decision, no fan following the match on TV was able to see Oakland’s comeback live. The complaints to the network indicated a new height of popularity for the game in the United States.)

What a fun idea to re-read all these old books!

By: Cerrin

Cerrin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:04:46 +0000

I dont remember this book. I think I may have to get it and read it. I remember the little house book most of all. And the bedtime stories. But my favorite is the book of poems I still have. I will have to pull it out for you to read when you get here…NEXT month lol