Anne Frank (Usborne Famous Lives)

This a brief, accessible, and attractive short biography of Anne Frank, evidently written for kids from about 10 to 13 years of age. Pages are mostly cheerful pastel colours and there are many photos. The text itself reads almost like a little novel. The focus is on Anne’s optimism and faith in humanity, which I’ve personally never completely bought into.

There are, however, problems. Dysentery is incorrectly spelled, and the author incorrectly states that Anne and her sister Margot’s scabies, contracted in a concentration camp, were due to lice. Scabies infestation is caused by mites, not lice.

When one sees errors of this kind, the tendency is to doubt the accuracy of other details in the book. I didn’t feel up to fact checking show more the rest of the book, but I think potential readers should be aware it may not be reliable. I believe the book would also have benefited from a glossary. At the very least, some information required more explanatory detail for the target audience.

Verdict: There are better books about Anne out there. show less

Anne Frank is a normal, free little Jewish girl, until Hitler comes and invades Amsterdam, where she lives. He tries to send all Jewish girls and boys at the age of sixteen (I think it's sixteen) to concentration camps to work and be killed. Anne's older sister, Margot, has had a call-up (a message saying 'GO TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP NOW') and Anne and Margot, their parents and friends, go into hiding at a secret annexe at the back of Anne's dad's office. When the German police find them and take them away to concentration camp, shaving them and making it obvious they were criminals, what will happen to Anne and the rest?

This book was a 'Young Readers' book, and put Anne's diary into summary, but it was all rather well written. I cared a show more lot for little Anne and the others, and when I asked for Anne's actual diary, my mummy said that it was too sad.

When I visited Amsterdam, I saw Anne's house, and next time I go there I'd love to go in it. When I learn about the Second World War, I will read her real diary. show less

This book is a real story about a girl who was a Jew and lived through World War II in the annex of a workplace, hiding from the German soldiers who were running up Jews to take to camps to be killed. It has real life pictures of the of Anne and her family and the way they lived during this time period.

This book is about the life and experiences of a young girl who survived WWII.

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