Heidi - Recommendations

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1996

• TV (39 eps)
• 1991 - 1992

Mary Lennox recently became an orphan because her parents died from a cholera epidemic in India so she was sent to live in England with her uncle. However, her uncle is a very distant man who talks to no one so she is left alone in the mansion with nobody to play with. Soon she meets a friendly servant boy named Dicon and his older sister Martha and they soon become good friends. Later on she discovers a secret garden and hopes it will bring happiness to her new family, including her cousin Collin who is crippled.

• TV (48 eps)
• 1983

Annette lives a carefree life in a small village amidst the Swiss Alps. With her best friend Lucien and other school children by her side, Annette couldn’t be happier – that is, until her mother dies one cold winter day while giving birth to little Denis. Now, years have passed and things are finally getting back to normal, but Annette’s hardships aren’t quite over yet; her friendship with Lucien will be put to a difficult test when he becomes partially responsible for a terrible accident involving Denis...

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2001

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1996

• Other (1 ep)
• 1967

• TV (52 eps)
• 1974

When Heidi's parents died while she was a baby, she was left in the care of her selfish aunt Dete. However, now that Dete has found work abroad she has left five-year-old Heidi at her grandfather's house; he is a cantankerous old man who lives in the hills of Dorfli Village, with only his goats and the young goat herder Peter as his makeshift friends. In her new home, Heidi will learn to love the countryside, make friends with the flowers and goats, and most importantly warm the hearts of all of the people around her.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1979

• TV (26 eps)
• 2007

When Emily Starr's father died, she was left in the care of her deceased mother's family, the Murrays. However, the rich and prestigious Murrays never approved of Emily's simple father, and she was thus not welcomed into loving arms. With her trusty cat and nary a possession, Emily left for her new home - New Moon - where many a joy and sorrow awaited her. Now, along with tough Ilse, artistic Teddy and loyal Perry, Emily will laugh, cry, and try to win the hearts of her new family.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2009

Ten years after the end of the Second World War, in a backwater rural town which used to be a major regional capital in Feudal Japan, Shinko, a girl with an active imagination who daydreams about the town as it appeared a millennium prior, befriends Kiiko, a shy girl from Tokyo whose father relocated to the town to become a doctor for a factory. The film follows their day to day lives as they take care of a goldfish in a makeshift pond, fantasize about a cloistered and lonely young princess who moved to the town in the Feudal Era, and help a boy cope with a family tragedy.