pinkcrimson's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.5
trankin's review against another edition
4.0
The actual diary is a little hard to get through at times. Pete's art and things he wrote while at the work camp are so amazing for one so young. Worth reading.
bookphile_belle's review against another edition
3.0
This journal was written by a child so my expectations were not very high. It’s repetitive but that’s because everyday life was repetitive during the war. There is an innocence about it. Petr records going to school and playing with friends. Intermingled with these recordings are mentions of the atrocities of war with a certain naïveté because he most likely did not fully grasp the implications of being sent to a camp by transport.
gamusinaverde's review
I'm not rating this book, basically because it's a diary and it's something very personal that Petr wrote, probably not knowing that one day the whole world would read it. Petr didn't show much fear, his writings of what was going on in Prague were of a quiet life mixed with some of the horrors that surrounded him and all jews. He is calm but doesn't hide anything, even if he writes it in complex codes. And even though it's sad saying so, it was a very interesting reading.
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