Heidi's Children

Heidi's Children is a 1939 novel, the second of four sequel novels to Johanna Spyri's original Heidi series, written by Spyri's French and English translator, Charles Tritten. It was originally published in French language French by Flammarion in Paris in 1939,^[1] and in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1939.^[2]

It was preceded by Heidi Grows Up: A Sequel to Heidi.

Plot

After seeing the flower budding at the newest spring of Dorfli, Heidi is suggested to by Eileen to have her little sister, Martha, who was part of Heidi and Peter's wedding, to come to the village, as a guest to them. After bickering, Martha is eventually taken to Heidi's, but she shows to be complainy, including biting her blanket, when upset. But, while she goes to school, where Eileen teacher even her own sister, Heidi's grandfather eventually learns the girl a prayer, which she eventually manages to recite, the verses which uplift her, through her times. Willing to keep up a home tradition, Martha is taken to pick berries with her friends, but after her doddling along the way for more on the side, gets one of her companions stuck under a cliff, which Martha climbs down to, but they both fall to the ground, before the group climbs back up and they go come.

Eventually, Heidi and Peter have their twins, which their grandfather excevate and name, but afterwards the grandfather goes quiter and stiller, eventually dying of old age, indeed. After Tobi discovers some creatures under the stones of the home's garden, incidentally, the family, with Martha, moves up to the mountain home, where, among other things, the building shed is turned into a cheese factory, while Martha and Tobi make up the goat herding job.

One day, Heidi takes Martha to the 'enchanted garden', which, in the previous novel, she had been shown to by Peter and among marvelling at the sights and flower picking, Heidi feels from Peter's grandmother, who's in heaven, but when the sun's gone down and the two make leave, Peter frantically annouces that Tobi's gone, still despite the other's searching. Martha searches on her own, despite her parents' protests, at first and after some dangerous and revealing adventure, through the sides of the mountains, in the darkest night, she finds herself of what she dosen't actually know is the grazing meadow. There, under the Rainy Day Rock, she accicdentaly finds the sleeping Tobi and after his stubborn resistance and her name shouts of desperation, she realizes those shouts for her grandmother came from herself and, in the while, takes Tobi back down, just blinded, but comes back down, to Heidi and Peter's cheer and the parents safely take them in their mountain home.

The next day, is the sister Martha taken to the train, back home and also bidding farewell, was Martha always going to be like an child of Heidi to the woman herself.

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