Children also deserve to know the story
Anne Frank by Sveta Dorosheva is a book to consider for several reasons. Well, more than a book, it is a font. A source of emotions, knowledge and curiosities. A source whose water is very necessary to satisfy the headquarters of the boys and girls. A source that roughly explains the adolescence of Anne Frank. Narrates his
life from Hitler's rise to power until his father, Otto, published his diary. And he does it in the most tender and simplified way possible.
Let's talk, first of all, about the sentimental section. Hearing or reading the biography of Anne Frank is always moving. And do it for the first time, even more. So, therefore, this story is poignant. But also, do not fall into the error of looking for the easy tear. Because, in fact, the context that the author exposes is summarized in a brief explanation of the type of person who ruled Germany during the protagonist's adolescence.
Dorosheva describes the situation in Europe in the 1930s without going into detail. Details that readers will learn later. Details that would be too complex a story already difficult to digest. And the context is especially striking for referring to Hitler as "a man with an ugly mustache." I think it's a good phrase because it fits into children's slang ... without frivolizing the story.
The fact that children read this story implies that they also receive the water of knowledge that I mentioned at the beginning. Obviously the fiction is very good and it is very important. But expanding the limits of reading to nonfiction is also very necessary. And doing it also with tragedies of this depth is a brilliant idea. As its execution is also brilliant. And your illustrations.
Made by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Anne Frank's drawings are also very
successful. There is one illustration per page, already black and white. The latter is an indicator
that the story takes place in the past and that it is a serious matter. Yes, the seriousness
it does not imply that there are no smiles. Despite its tragic outcome, if the real Anne Frank
He smiled, the one in Sánchez Vegara's drawings does so justifiably.
This book may be the answer for those parents who wonder what is
the right time to explain to your children what happened 80 years ago in our
continent. It may be the first contact of the smallest with the
Holocaust, and ultimately, with the Second World War. Because it is a
narration without words of more, pleasant and tender. A narrative that belongs to a
feminist collection, and therefore full of light. And a narration that can even
provoke, as I have pointed out, your readers to ask questions.
Why? Mainly, because the author ignores the dramatic future of the family
Frank in the concentration camp. Simply explain that they addressed one of them
and classifies it as "the most horrible place in the world." And in this sense, boys and girls
they can get caught. What was happening there? What happened to Ana? Did you keep writing?
After reading, these and many other questions can be asked. And if that happened, that
reading would mean the birth of the historian and curious facet of the person who
hold in your hands.
Wanting to know the past of the things that surround us is positive. Sometimes we
we question how our parents met. Other times, we are intrigued to know who
He lived in the apartment that we now live in. Well, the work in question may
cause, as I say, that children wonder about the past of our society.
Let them be interested in history. And that is very healthy. And very necessary.