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 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
Seeing the flower budding in Dorfli, Eileen suggests Heidi have the former's little sister, Martha, to visit the village as their guest. After bickering, Martha is eventually taken to Heidi's, but she shows to be complaining. Heidi's grandfather eventually learns the girl a prayer, the verses which uplift her. Willing to keep a home tradition, Martha is taken to pick berries with her friends, but gets an companion stuck under a cliff, which Martha climbs down to, but they both fall to the ground, before coming 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. 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 take the goat herding job.
One day, Heidi takes Martha to the 'enchanted garden', but when the sun's down, Peter frantically announces that Tobi's gone, despite the other's searching. Martha searches on her own, despite her parents' protests, and after some dangerous adventure through the mountain sides, she finds herself in what she doesn't actually know is the grazing meadow. Under the Rainy Day Rock, she accicdentally finds the sleeping Tobi and after his stubborn resistance and her desperate name shouts, she realizes the shouts for her grandmother came from herself and takes Tobi back down, to Heidi and Peter's cheer and the parents safely take them in their mountain home.
The next day, is Martha trained back home and bidding farewell, would Martha always be an child of Heidi to the woman.