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enrichment

PICTURE BOOKS

BH   1-66   Swiss Nursery Rhymes

♦   The Legend of William Tell  by Terry Small
Illustrated story told in rhyme

BEGINNING READERS

IMAGINATIVE

LEGENDARY/EPIC HEROES

BH   10-44   Legend of William Tell

CULTURAL

FC   OC5   Our Little Swiss Cousin
FC   OC17   The Swiss Twins

♥   Our Little Swiss Cousin  by Mary Hazelton Wade
♥   The Swiss Twins  by Lucy Fitch Perkins

FICTION

$   ​​A Bell for Ursli  by Selina Chong
Classic story of rural village life in Switzerland.
►  ♥   Moni the Goat-Boy by Johanna Spyri
A sweet story of faith, honesty, and doing the right thing.

CLASSIC LITERATURE

BH   5-146    Heidi in the Alpine Pasture

JC   4-268   The Sesemann House is Haunted from Heidi by Johanna Spyri
When little Heidi is forced to leave the freedom of her Swiss mountain life and the companionship  of her beloved grandfather to live in town as the companion of a rich invalid child, she finds the change almost more than she can bear.
JC   10-97   Swiss Family Robinson

♥   Heidi by Johanna Spyri, translated by Elisabeth Stork, illustrated by Maria Kirk
♥   Heidi by Johanna Spyri, translated by Helene White
♥   Heidi  Junior Illustrated Classic
►  ♥   ​​Heidi by Johanna Spyri   
Heartwarming story of a little orphaned girl and her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
♥   Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, simplified by G.E. Mitton
►  ♥   Swiss Family Robinson  by Johann Wyss
Adventures of a Swiss family marooned on a desert island.

BIOGRAPHIES

FC   S6-161   Arnold Winkelreid