The snobby girls at the fashionable boarding school ridicule Heidi's "peasant" ways and laugh at her. But Heidi's spirits never dampen for long, because she lives for her dream to finish her studies and return to her own village in the Swiss Alps as a sch
Many writers have suffered injustice in being known as the author of but one book. Such has been the fate of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss authoress, whose reputation is mistakenly supposed to rest on her story of Heidi. To be sure, Heidi is a book that in its
A horse's life can be filled with love and tenderness. It can also be filled with meanness and cruelty. Black Beauty learns both sides of life in this classic tale by Anna Sewel. Told from the horse's point of view, Black Beauty's own story takes you into
Selected from the acclaimed of anthologies mystery and suspense, The Best of Sisters In Crime offers a killer collection of award-winning authors and 21 short stories of felonious, yet feminine, mystery fiction.