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Title: Saccharine where Heidi was sweet
Review: Tritten was Johanna Spyri's translator, a fact that he makes much of in his introduction to his sequels to her great novel Heidi. This was the second sequel that he published (the first being _Heidi Grows Up_).In _Heidi's Children_ Heidi is pregnant with her first child and at the same time agrees to take on the problem sister of a good friend. Heidi teaches this child an important lesson about life and at the same time unravels a complex family secret.Spyri's works were simple and strong, and their goodness and sweetness shone through the pages. Tritten is not nearly as talented as a writer, and his sequels are a sad distortion of the characters. He cakes on religion and sentimentality and uses that as plot. He makes the characters into pious charactatures of their original incarnations.Skip these, unless you're a Spyri scholar.
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