Anna Frank: La joven escritora que le contó al mundo su historia

World History Biographies

by Ann Kramer

Anne Frank takes young readers back to the dark days of World War II through the story of the famous young diarist. Like teenagers everywhere, Anne wrote about friends, family, movies, her greatest joys, and her deepest fears. Through her vivid, tender entries we experience Anne's changing world, as persecution, hiding, and betrayal, become part of daily life in Nazi Europe.

Ann Kramer's superbly illustrated book also celebrates the enduring legacy of Anne Frank. Her story, now known to millions, is an inspiration for young readers—and writers—everywhere. This attractive, superbly illustrated volume will bring a new generation to a story that should never be forgotten.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Childrens, History, Holocaust, Historical

Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Ann Kramer was born and educated in London but left school as soon as possible to work and travel; much later, as a ‘mature’ student, she gained an honours degree in history from Sussex University.

Her first job in publishing was as an editorial researcher, checking scripts for BBC quiz programmes. Subsequently she went freelance and worked as an editor with various publishing companies, including Diagram Visual Information, Dorling Kindersley, where she was the senior editor for DK’s Children’s Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Gaia. Increasingly, however, she concentrated on writing. For many years she wrote illustrated non-fiction books for children and young people, but now writes mainly for adults.

Reviews

[Claire Rozint]

This is a little bit longer than the last one I read, but not as long as the first book I read. This tells the story of Anne Frank and how her diary was found, made into a book and became a popular movie that was remade to give people a visual of how her real life was like during the time she was writing in her diary.

[Sarah Couture · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5.
J’ai apprécié la simplicité dans laquelle cette biographie est racontée. J’ai appris des choses que j’ignorais même en ayant lu le journal d’Anne Frank. J’ai aimé qu’il y ait des images aussi pour accompagner le texte

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ann Kramer tells the story of Anne Frank through the story the diarist wrote herself. It tells the story of Anne Frank growing up with her friends, family, and then also going through the war and living in the annex. Anne Frank wanted to grow up and be a writer and this book provides inspiration for young readers through retelling her story and providing history that will hopefully lead to reading the actual diary. I like and would recommend this book because it is approachable to young readers even though it seems fairly advanced. It provides inspirational quotes from the book that I really enjoyed, and also a glossary in the back.

[maría · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gusto la forma en que desarrollo todo.
También me dio muchos puntos importantes. Fue una lectura muy buena, solo eso.

[Gilles laforge · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so amazing and all of it is true you cannot compare this book to another fake fiction or an ordinary history book this is the book I recommend for everyone to read

[River Green (Neko Libritos) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un libro que renté de la biblioteca de mi escuela por mi amor a la historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (y porque tenía que rentar obligatoriamente para una clase), al momento de abrirlo y leer la primera página decidí que quería tenerlo, así que lo entregué de vuelta a la escuela y lo pedí por internet, ha sido de las mejores compras que he hecho este año.
Este NO es el diario de Anne Frank (libro que tengo muchas ganas de leer y que nunca he podido terminar), es más que nada una biografía sobre su vida, como fue que sus padres se casaron, su niñez, su crecimiento y los diversos motivos de cambiarse de casa, como fue que se escondieron y su vida en el campo de concentración hasta su muerte y lo que dejó con ella.
Anne Frank es la niña más famosa del holocausto, a lo largo de la lectura podemos conocer algunos de sus sueños y en verdad es que me aguantaba las ganas de llorar por las cosas que una pequeña niña tiene que vivir a esta edad.
No ayudó mucho que antes de leer este libro estuviera viendo "La Lista de Schindler", una película basada en una persona de la vida real que importó mucho durante esta época de la historia.
Si eres alguien interesado en conocer más sobre lo que sucedió el Alemania durante el gobierno de Hitler y otros datos este libro es para ti, si te gustó "El Diario de Anne Frank" y quieres conocer un poco más de su vida este libro es para ti, y si nunca has conocido a esta chica o su trabajo te invito a que le des una oportunidad para que te animes a saber algo más sobre la historia de nuestro mundo.

[Emily Cushing · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who Told the World Her Story is a historical fiction book. This book is intended for children ages nine to twelve. This book tells the story of Anne Frank's life and how she had to go into hiding to stay alive just because she was Jewish during World War II in 1945. Anne Frank kept a diary of what was happening to her and that is how her story can be told. I would give this book five out of five stars. It was very well written. The book was broken up into 4 different sections each depicting Anne Frank's life. The sections were early years, an ordinary life, the secret annex and discovery and deportation. This book was factual and contained real photos of Anne Frank. The book has a timeline that goes across the bottom of each page which was easy to follow. I think children in 4th to 7th grade would enjoy this book but younger children may not because the book has a lot of words and the story of what happened to Anne Frank could be scary for younger children. This book would be a good choose when teaching a history lesson about the facts of World War II.

[Erin Roach · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first read this book in the 7th grade and I still remembered most of it on a second read almost 17 years later. This book is interesting but sad. The subject matter is a complex one and I think I liked the book more on my second read rather than my first. As an adult, I can see the value in the book far more than I did as a child. Anne Frank's story is truly unique and I would recommend this book to anyone wanting a deeper perspective into the lives effected by the events of the second great war.

[Kathryn Lea · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book would be good to introduce students to the story of Anne Frank before actually reading her diary. This may also be a good way to introduce to students in history a personal account of World War II. This book could also be used for a mentor text to be used to introduce timelines to students and also comment bubbles.

[Shakena Gwinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book and what it stands for. Anna frank was a young girl who was jew , had to live- in a hidden room with her family. Her family found a secret room to live in, to escape from the Nazis. She wrote about her struggle, and border during that time. Despite what she went through, she overcame,and her book and her story is still told to this day.

[Ferran Buireu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story of Anne Frank through the diary that was found. It tells the story of Anne Frank growing up with her friends, her family, her broken dreams, and what she would have wanted to do. All told with the innocence of a girl who has her whole life ahead of her and who does not know that her dreams will soon be shattered.

[Katja Labonté · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars & 3/10 hearts. This is a good start to learning about Anne Frank, with lots of pictures and quotes from her diary and her family & friends. Note there is a picture of Anne’s sister in an immodest bathing suit.

[Joanna Pingel]

This book was very factual. This book explained what Anne Frank wrote about and what it was like hiding from the Nazis. She write about things such as her family and friends. Also what she liked to do such as movies.

[Cora Lang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un récit touchant, pur. Je reste sans mots et émue après cette lecture.

[Fatou💘 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro muy triste y bastante largo,está bien porque nos da muchos detalles sobre los personajes.
Lo recomiendo

[Happylife · Rating 5 out of 5]

She was younger than my age now when she started to write this diary, how brilliant Anna was! I was overwhelmed by her thoughts and philosophy.

[Flor · Rating 3 out of 5]

todo lo que sea de la segunda guerra, me destruye

[Estefi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo tenía pendiente desde hace mucho, algunas partes se me han hecho un poco repetitivas pero en general la historia y los detalles que cuenta son muy interesantes.

[Mayra Alejandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love you Anna frank nobody understands me like you do

[Emmanuel Venegas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book this book is entertaining for me.This book is entertaining because its about Anna and her family hiding in a attic from the Germans.It is very scary because you don't know if they are going to get found out.Then she talks about how her day is going what they be do everyday.Then one day,they find her and her family that were hiding.Its sad because they get sent to a consentration camp.They all die except for the dad,he lives and is there to say what happened at the camp.They find the diary where she wrote everything.Then people now can know what jewish people had to go through when the german took over.I reccomend this book it is very entertaining.

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yo deteste este libro porque simplemente nose cuando lo leo fue en plan 🤔🤨🧐

[Julian · Rating 3 out of 5]

the book was really exciting and intenc i i think you can rilly use that in some more of your books that you mite wright.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel kinda weird giving a book dealing with such tragedy 4 stars, but it was well put together and gives a lot of information in a concise and well organized manner. It's not very long, large print, and is divided into sections with several 2-page subsections/chapters in each section. There's a timeline across the bottom of each page of events happening in Anne's life and in the war relating to the information above. There are pictures as well. I really like that it starts out BEFORE the war and before she went into hiding and gives some background on her and her family. Unfortunately, I don't think the pictures do justice to how small of space the annex really was. I think that's just something you can only really feel in person. One thing I learned from this book was the meaning of Holocaust. I never knew what it meant before, just that it referred to this horrific time in our world's history. It means, literally, burnt whole and translated as sacrifice completely consumed by fire. Reading this reminded me of when I visited the secret annex where they hid in Amsterdam and, oddly, I feel compelled to return and see it again. I don't know that I ever will, but I would like to see it again, spend more time there (we were really rushed to get back to our tour bus).

I did pick this up in the children's section of our library for my daughter to read for a book report; however, after I read it, I was uncomfortable knowing she had read it (I read it after she did) and a few of the pictures it shows (nothing graphic, but some from the prison camps with how wasted away the prisoners were) and it mentions puberty and sex (my 10-year-old daughter did bring the book to me to ask about that as she was reading it).

A very informative, well-written book to give more background to the diary, its writer, her family, and the war. However, I would recommend it more for older kids.

[Courtney Miles · Rating 4 out of 5]

This intriguing and informing book is a great tool for a young reader if they are wanting to learn all about who Anne Frank was.
The author, Ann Kramer, gives the biography of the young girl and discusses the many hardships that she has to face and how she dies at the young age of 15. Kramer discusses how Anne Frank was raised by pretty wealthy parents and had an older sister named Margot. They lived with her grandmother for some time until they got their own place. They moved several other times as well before they are sent to a concentration camp and separated from their father and eventually from their mother as well. Sadly, Anne dies in a concentration camp with her sister.
The book also discusses many of the events that were going on leading up to the Jews being placed in concentration camps as well as the rise of Hitler and him taking over so many countries. It also provides a timeline at the bottom of the pages to show the reader the order of events that were occurring, in and around Germany.
The illustrations in this book are photographs of Anne, her family, many Jews, and Hitler and the Nazi army. This gives the readers a realistic view.
I would recommend this book for fifth graders because it is a longer biographical book and also because some of the stuff that is going on may not be discussed until that age.
I gave this book four stars because I enjoyed it, I learned some new things from it, and also found it to be very informing.

[Alan Q · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book happens to be of a girl name Anne Frank who happens to be born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 from a wealthy Jewish family known as the Franks. She lives with her father Otto, who happen to serve as a soldier during World War I, her mother Edith and her sister Margot. Anne have lived in Germany for a short amount of time because Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 which he and the Nazis started to create laws that were unfair especially for the Jews. Anne then moved to the Netherlands with her family where she met two of her best friends who love to play board games, have tea parties and many more. Anne Frank and her family felt worry every time about the Nazis planning to invade the Netherlands but their fear turn into reality. Anne and her family were then thinking of running away but there was no escape so the only option was the Annex. Can they survive through the years in the annex?

I like how this book was split into the early,ordinary and secret annex life of Anne Frank and on the bottom of the pages, there is a timeline that shows the events and her personal life that occurred throughout her life and the war. I happen to learn more about her life like how Anne happened to be born with a mild illness and how she was more of a social person. It is sad that she never survived and only her father and her best friend Hanneli (Lies) Goslar did. I would recommend this book for readers who are interest in reading or learning about Anne Frank.

[Miss Balzaretti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ann Kramer tells the story of Anne Frank from her birth until her death at age 15. The book does a very good job telling Anne’s story along with the history of the Holocaust. The book is filled with personal images from Anne’s life and from the events leading to the Holocaust. Detailed captions are provided for the photographs and a timeline of major event in the war and Anne’s life are documented throughout the book. I like the justice the book gives to Anne Frank and her story. The book keeps the focus on her but also gives historical context for the reader to fully understand what she went through during World War II. The pictures and time line, I think an important addition to the book. I feel that this book would be a very important addition to a classroom library. It gives readers context to a brave and memorable young women. I think that this book can be used as a tool in learning about World War II and the Holocaust from a child’s perspective. While the book is long, it does keep the reader engaged with the text and displays the mass amount of information in creative ways. This book, and others like it, would be great to have in my classroom library for teaching any era of history.

[Jason R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anne Frank by Anne Kramer is a non fiction biography for young adults taken from the daily journal entries of young Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazi party. The book tells the story of Anne Frank as her and her family hid from the Nazis. Anne Frank calls her diary "Kitty" and all the entries are addressed to her dear as "Dear Kitty" as she tells the story of the fear she and family have every day of being discovered and persecuted for being who they are.
Ann Kramer tells the story of the young uprising writer Ann Franke, and how her story teaches other young readers how persecution leads to great tragedies. Young readers are able to get see what is was like to be a young Jewish person during World War II being afraid every day of being discovered and taken away from your family. The book is a good historical reference for young readers of Anne Frank and what the beginning of the holocaust was as well. The fear that was generated for a group of people and how that changed their daily lives and took away so much from them are experienced while reading this book. Anne Frank is a book to help young readers understand what it was like so hopefully such tragedies never occur again.

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

In Anne Frank: The Young Writer who told the world her story by Ann Kramer, she was 15 when she died in a concentration camp and she wrote a story about what had happened during World War II in Germany. It took place in Germany in early March of 1945. The characters in Anne Frank: The Young Writer who told the world her story was Anne Frank. She was the main character/person in this book.

The conflict in this story that Anne Frank was a Jew living in Europe and in hiding because if her and her family we're caught by the Nazis' then the family would get seperated and have to go to a concentration camp, stave to death, and get treated very bad by the Nazis'. So the Frank's family tried not getting caught, they lived in a "secret annex" for 2 years. On August 4, 1944 Anne and her companions from the "secret annex" were discovered and arrested. The family went their seperate ways and never saw each other again.

I definitely recommend this book. It's very fasinating and you will learn a lot about Anne Frank, her family, and the holocaust. I give this book 5 stars! *****

[Carolyn Mccargish · Rating 5 out of 5]

The genre of the book "World History Biographies: Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who told the World Her Story" by Ann Kramer is tragedy and drama.
The book " World History Biographies: Anne Frank is about how the World War II, and a time of fear affected a young woman. Also, how Anne Frank was changing around her in dramatic ways such as betrayal and persecution during a time in history in Europe and the Nazi time period. The book "World History Biographies: Anne Frank is illustrated in amazing ways. The book also, is an celebration of Anne Frank's life is an inspiration to early readers especially young readers.
I gave the book "World History Biographies: Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who told the World Her Story is able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the subject discussed. Readers are also, able to learn about how Anne Frank lived in a time period and able to survive in a time of turmoil.

[Stefanie Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Detailed and interesting with many photographs and artifacts, this book is a great pairing to use with Frank's diary. It gives a historical perspective and background that is missing from the diary. They are both two good books written on the same time period in two different ways. They definitely complement each other. The photographs and details in Kramer's book adds to the reality and depth of comprehension when reading Anne's diary. It's colorful and inviting, the book fits perfectly in the hand, I really liked the paperback version. The timeline that accompanies many of the pages also helps align all the different events.