A Little Swiss Boy

251 pp. Color inset on front board, frontispiece and two illustrations by Frances Brundage. Spyri is the Swiss writer whose story for children, Heidi, is known all over the world. Her psychological insight into the child mind, her humor, and her ability to enter into childish joys and sorrows give her books attraction and lasting value. A Little Swiss Boy begins: The June sun shone on the green slope above the village of Leuk and the grass carpeting the heights far beyond with cool green filled the air with fragrance. In front of an isolated house on the road to the baths of Leuk two women engaged in earnest conversation. Brundage was a prize Victorian illustrator; contemporary of Kate Greenaway and know for her children with large, expressive eyes.