This story of Anne Frank aims to give fresh insight into her early life, her family relationships, the development of the Diary and her own emotional life, the privations and logistics of life in hiding, and her tragic death in typus-ridden Bergen-Belsen. For ages 10+.

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Pan Macmillan .

Mirjam Pressler is an award-winning author of several novels for young people, which have been translated into many languages. She is a highly regarded expert on the life of Anne Frank. She lives in the Bavarian countryside. Anthea Bellwas awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz . Her many works of translation from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.