The Diary of Anne Frank (Abridged for young readers)

One of the world's most inspirational books, sensitively abridged for younger readersSensitively edited and with a connecting commentary by editor, Mirjam Pressler, the abridged edition of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diary of an ordinary girl who has long become a household name. This abridged edition has a short prologue written by the editor, Mirjam Pressler, as well as a connecting commentary. There are beautiful line drawings, family photographs, and an Afterword to explain why the Diary ends so abruptly. This shorter edition is ideal for younger children who want to read Anne's diary for themselves but are too young to appreciate the teenage issues that Anne faces during her time in hiding.

Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929. She died while imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen, three months before her sixteenth birthday.Mirjam Pressler was born in 1940 in Germany. She was a popular, prize-winning writer of books for young readers and a well-known translator. She translated Anne's diary from Dutch into German, and edited the Definitive Edition of The Diary of a Young Girl with Otto Frank. Mirjam Pressler died in January 2019.

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