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Toni, the Little Woodcarver
Johanna Spyri
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Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother Elsbeth. He sets his dream aside to become a woodcarver when the cost to pursue it is out of their means. The only job available for the boy is as a herdsman in the mountains. Cut off from the home he loves, he suffers tremendously and no one can help. Only his mother’s love can turn him around.
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother Elsbeth. He sets his dream aside to become a woodcarver when the cost to pursue it is out of their means. The only job available for the boy is as a herdsman in the mountains. Cut off from the home he loves, he suffers tremendously and no one can help. Only his mother’s love can turn him around.
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Toneli repeated the prayer. Suddenly he screamed: "Father is coming!"
Down from the farm some one was running as fast as he could come.
"That is not Father," said his mother, and both went towards the running man. When they met, the man stood still and said, gasping:
"Don't go any farther, turn around, Elsbeth. I came straight to you, for something has happened."
"Oh, my God!" cried the woman in the greatest anguish, "has something happened to Toni?"
"Yes, he was with the wood-cutters, and then he was struck. They have brought him back; he is lying up at the farm-but don't go up there," he added, holding Elsbeth fast, for she wanted to start off as soon as she heard the news.
"Not go up?" she said quickly. "I must go to him; I must help him and see about bringing him home."
"You cannot help him, he is—he is already. . . Read More
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Ich mochte die Darstellung der Rollenbilder und auch die Bezugnahme zu psychischen Krankheiten.
Little Toni and his mother live in a mountain hut in the Swiss alps. (Yes, the story is by Johanna Spyri, author of Heidi.) Toni wants to become a woodcarver, and he seems to have a knack for it, but his mother can’t afford to pay for his training. Instead, he is sent high up the mountain to tend sh
I wouldn’t say I hated this book, but it was like the most boring book in the history of the entire world. It was a dumb story, and the timeline skipped along too fast. The description was also hard to follow most of the time.