Divided in 4 parts, Early Years, An Ordinary Life, The Secret Annex and Discovery and Deportation, this detailed biography
is all about Anne Frank, the most famous teenager in history.
Kramer does a fine job of chronicling Anne's early years. But it is the small details that she weaves through the text that make Anne's brief life the reality to
readers. "After school and on weekends, Anne and her sister, together with other
friends, played hopscotch and rushed about doing handstands and cartwheels. They called for each other to come out and play by whistling through the mail slot. Anne could not whistle, so she sang instead. There was a craze for keeping poetry albums. Friends wrote poems in each other's albums and decorated them with pictures."
Kramer paints a compelling personality portait of the vibrant, chatty, inquisitive young girl with well-chosen excerpts of Anne's diary and anecdotes from relatives and friends. Throughout the arc of Anne's story, historical details are deftly incorporated, offering readers context and a fuller picture of life in Europe both prior to and during Hitler's rule.
Well-captioned full-colour and black-and-white photographs abound, as do fact-filled sidebars.It is perfect for casual readers too.