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A review by lisamshardlow
Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe by Anne Frank
4.0
When Anne, her family, the van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer (all Jewish) were in hiding together during the Nazi Occupation of Holland, as well as writing her world-famous diary, she also wrote this selection of short stories and essays.
Most of these stories are dated, and the ones that Anne wrote later were far better than the older ones. I don’t think you can forget that these stories were written by a teenage girl, but she was always a natural storyteller, and you can see that she definitely improved as a writer as she got older. It’s such a loss, not only to her father Otto and for everyone who knew Anne in life, but for us all to miss out on such talent, someone who would have undoubtedly become a world-famous author in her own lifetime if she had survived. It also gives a deeper insight into the type of person Anne was.
You can definitely see Anne’s optimism and positive outlook on life from each of the stories, which is what I love most about her, she always tried to be happy and to look forward to better times even in the darkest of moments. But I can’t say that I could connect much with the subject of the stories as they’re not really aimed at my age range. Although, I did enjoy her description of Peter’s bedroom!
Even though I didn’t really care much for the actual subjects of the stories they are very well written, so I give this 4 out of 5 stars because you can definitely see that there is talent behind the words. As I’ve said before, about Anne’s diary, she wrote well beyond her years.
I would probably recommend this to younger readers who like short stories of kindness and positivity, and who are interested in the Holocaust (without it being too graphic).
Most of these stories are dated, and the ones that Anne wrote later were far better than the older ones. I don’t think you can forget that these stories were written by a teenage girl, but she was always a natural storyteller, and you can see that she definitely improved as a writer as she got older. It’s such a loss, not only to her father Otto and for everyone who knew Anne in life, but for us all to miss out on such talent, someone who would have undoubtedly become a world-famous author in her own lifetime if she had survived. It also gives a deeper insight into the type of person Anne was.
You can definitely see Anne’s optimism and positive outlook on life from each of the stories, which is what I love most about her, she always tried to be happy and to look forward to better times even in the darkest of moments. But I can’t say that I could connect much with the subject of the stories as they’re not really aimed at my age range. Although, I did enjoy her description of Peter’s bedroom!
Even though I didn’t really care much for the actual subjects of the stories they are very well written, so I give this 4 out of 5 stars because you can definitely see that there is talent behind the words. As I’ve said before, about Anne’s diary, she wrote well beyond her years.
I would probably recommend this to younger readers who like short stories of kindness and positivity, and who are interested in the Holocaust (without it being too graphic).