sandylovesbooks's review against another edition
5.0
I will not critique the content other than to say it was amazing to read and to be awed by the illustrations. I think the author and illustrator did an excellent job adapting Anne Frank's diary into a graphic novel.
This book was taken off the shelves in a Florida school system so I had to read this. The reason? "Not age appropriate" and it "minimized the Holocaust". Yeah, I believe that. The reason The Diary of a Young Girl was banned? "Sexually offensive" and the "tragic nature of the book might be depressing to young readers". You can't have it both ways. It can't be too much and not enough at the same time. It's enough to make me want to slap some people upside their heads. I'll start in Florida.
I would like to say that, I too, was born in Frankfurt Germany. My father is a retired Army soldier and my mom was a housewife. (Stay-at-home mom in today's words) It's nice to have a small connection with someone so beyond her young age. This book will stay with me for a while.
This book was taken off the shelves in a Florida school system so I had to read this. The reason? "Not age appropriate" and it "minimized the Holocaust". Yeah, I believe that. The reason The Diary of a Young Girl was banned? "Sexually offensive" and the "tragic nature of the book might be depressing to young readers". You can't have it both ways. It can't be too much and not enough at the same time. It's enough to make me want to slap some people upside their heads. I'll start in Florida.
I would like to say that, I too, was born in Frankfurt Germany. My father is a retired Army soldier and my mom was a housewife. (Stay-at-home mom in today's words) It's nice to have a small connection with someone so beyond her young age. This book will stay with me for a while.
bmansmom's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
5.0
johannasreadinglist's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.75
mehsi's review against another edition
3.0
Een best OK graphic novel, ik had er meer van verwacht en soms was het ook best verwarrend omdat ze random stukjes uit het boek pakken, wel chronologisch, maar het liep dan toch net scheef (zoals dat ze opeens verklaarde verliefd te zijn op Petel, maar dat daar niks meer echt meegedaan wordt tot veel later). En sommige stukjes zou ik niet hebben gekozen, maar meer gegaan zijn voor de oorlog/onderduiksituatie. Ook jammer dat sommige pagina's gewoon tekst waren. De tekeningen waren wel redelijk, maar ik vond het toch op sommige punten iets missen. De romantische scene tussen Peter en Anne was een van mijn favoriete stukken, ik vond het al heel lief in het boek, maar om het te zien in tekeningen, helemaal geweldig.
always_need_more_books's review against another edition
4.0
I first read The Diary of Anne Frank as a teenager and I loved her voice, the humour in such dire circumstances and the honesty with which it was written.
World War 2 is a part of history that interests me (I studied it at A Level) so I am always keen to read around this period. At the age of 13, Anne Frank and her family (a Jewish family) first fled Germany for Holland, but were soon forced into hiding at the back of an Amsterdam warehouse, to flee the horrors of the Nazi occupation. While they were in hiding, Anne kept a diary about her life in the annex, detailing her thoughts and feelings about the people who were living with her (her own family, another family and a dentist) under extraordinary conditions, coping with the daily threat of discovery and death.
This is the first graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary and I'm so glad this book was published. The illustrations by David Polonsky are fantastic and help to makes Anne's words come alive! Not all the diary entries are included as the book would have been just too long but the choice of entries to include were just right - we are feel Anne's frustration about being the "difficult" member of the family. She sees her sister Margot as the good one and is quite unkind about her mother, much preferring her father. We see the group's difficulties at living so closely together, the lack of food and the daily threat of discovery. We also see the bravery of those who went behind the Nazi's to help the family as much as possible.
The last entry is on 1 August 1944 and on 4th August the family we discovered, most likely after a tip off. Anne and Margot died in a typhus epidemic at a concentration camp during the winter of 1944-1945. Anne's father was the only one of the 8 Annex members to survive the concentration camp and was instrumental in getting the diary published worldwide using all proceeds for charitable and educational purposes.
I'm hoping this graphic novel format will appeal to the next generation of readers and Anne's story will not be forgotten.
World War 2 is a part of history that interests me (I studied it at A Level) so I am always keen to read around this period. At the age of 13, Anne Frank and her family (a Jewish family) first fled Germany for Holland, but were soon forced into hiding at the back of an Amsterdam warehouse, to flee the horrors of the Nazi occupation. While they were in hiding, Anne kept a diary about her life in the annex, detailing her thoughts and feelings about the people who were living with her (her own family, another family and a dentist) under extraordinary conditions, coping with the daily threat of discovery and death.
This is the first graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary and I'm so glad this book was published. The illustrations by David Polonsky are fantastic and help to makes Anne's words come alive! Not all the diary entries are included as the book would have been just too long but the choice of entries to include were just right - we are feel Anne's frustration about being the "difficult" member of the family. She sees her sister Margot as the good one and is quite unkind about her mother, much preferring her father. We see the group's difficulties at living so closely together, the lack of food and the daily threat of discovery. We also see the bravery of those who went behind the Nazi's to help the family as much as possible.
The last entry is on 1 August 1944 and on 4th August the family we discovered, most likely after a tip off. Anne and Margot died in a typhus epidemic at a concentration camp during the winter of 1944-1945. Anne's father was the only one of the 8 Annex members to survive the concentration camp and was instrumental in getting the diary published worldwide using all proceeds for charitable and educational purposes.
I'm hoping this graphic novel format will appeal to the next generation of readers and Anne's story will not be forgotten.