Anne Frank: Child of the Holocaust

Anne Frank: Child of the Holocaust
By: Gene Brown

Out of all of the biographies I read, this was probably the one I didn't enjoy as much. I felt that this biography was very vague and distant from what Anne Frank was really about. Everything I have ever read about Anne Frank has been the same thing time after time. This book wasn't any different from things I had previously read. I wanted to read more about Anne Frank and the life she lived before the Holocaust. I wanted to learn something different and new. Also, the book skipped around a lot with information. One minute I was reading about her life and the next quotes from her diary were thrown in. Some of the information was also not pertinent to anything in my opinion. However, I enjoyed the many pictures in the book. They did a great job of furthering my understanding of what the situation she was in looked like through her eyes. I also liked how there was vocabulary terms at the back of the book for children to understand. I probably wouldn't use this in my classroom unless it was for leisure reading.