2010 book 191

Johanna Spyri's Heidi
I caught the Shirley Temple movie version of this on TCM the other night and was pissed off at what a bad adaptation it was, so decided to reread the original. It was exactly as I remembered (though I had conveniently forgotten all the grandmothers' God-talk). I remember when I was a kid I had the non-Spyri-written sequels where, I believe, Heidi marries Peter, and he's such a brat in this book it made me a little bit sad that that's the semi-official future out there for her in the world.