This book captures the context and background around Anne Frank’s life. I liked reading the book as it provided a different view of the life then and especially the details when Anne’s family was in hiding. There are details in the book that make you shudder as you think about the challenges the families faced.

The book would be valuable read for older elementary kids. This book nicely complements other books on the topic and would be valuable addition to readers who would want to know more Anne Frank and/or the life around the world war II. Some parts of the book are a bit repetitive and could use some editing but overall, I think it is still a good book for readers interested in the topic.

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This book follows the life of Anne Frank and her life during WWII. It takes you through the life of Anne as a child and then a teenager who must go into hiding with her family. The story is very deep and covers everything that even the diary of Anne leaves out.

The author even had entries from some of Anne's childhood friends. I know my students will really enjoy reading this book and viewing all of the primary sources in the book.

As I have visited the Anne Frank house and walked through the Secret Annex, this book brought back this experience to me. Seeing the diagrams in the book will help students understand the space available to the Franks.

I would highly recommend this book!

As much as I wanted to read this book, to use for my History class, the digital copy was jumbled. I was unable to read more than the first chapter so I cannot give this book a review. I will anxiously await it to be published in print.

I reviewed this book with my 9 year old daughter, who has a love for all things related to Anne Frank. We both felt the book was very informative in regards to the life of Anne, as well as the others in the Secret Annex. There were multiple photographs of different scenes during and after her time in the Annex, including multiple diagrams. Over all, I felt the book was a wonderful tool for anyone looking to further their knowledge in regards to Anne Frank and the Holocaust. The only complaint was that the book would have been so much better in the physical paper format. The electronic version was not organized properly, and was possibly missing pages.

All about Anne, written and compiled by the Anne Frank House is such an important book in these times. Having just read recently that this generation of children and young adults don't know much about the Holacaust, this is a book that should be required reading. It explains in great detail, yet in child language, how the Frank family hid, why they hid and how this whole horrible chapter in our history came about.

Using photographs and drawings, it depicts the city where the Franks hid, Mr. Frank's office and how the true heros came daily with supplies to help hide the family from Nazis. I first read The Diary of Anne Frank as a 12 year old girl, not understanding much about the time, the politics and the pure evil of the time. I grew to love Anne as I would have loved a friend. I have read much over the years, seen many documentaries and movies based on her diary, but even I learned much from this book.

All About Anne has a photograph of the actual diary that Anne received for her 13th birthday. I was stunned to see it, as it had only been described prior to this. Also stunning were pictures of the concentration camps and the conditions of the children, as well as a memorial gravesite for Margot and Anne.

Such a difficult book to read, yet needed for all to read. I will be buying this for my own children and hope that they never forget how authoritative leaders begin to use propaganda to spread hate and nationalism. This is an important book for all to read in 2018. A solid five stars for this exceptional book.

I'm very thankful to have gotten the chance to read an ARC of this important book. The photographs and accessible writing bring Anne's world to life. The text gives us a look at a time in history that we would never want to repeat and need to understand so that we are not doomed to do so.

I was pleased to find another resource to use in my eighth grade classroom as we read The Diary of Anne Frank in play form. Though this book lacks the emotion and power of The Diary itself, it provides important background information, and answers many of the questions my students usually ask as we read the play. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for nonfiction resources to accompany their teaching of The Diary of a Young Girl.

All About Anne adds another layer to the Anne Frank story. The author covers Anne's life using primary sources. The many photos of Anne with her family and friends add so much to Anne's story. Students will pore over them. This book would be a great addition to an intermediate level study of the holocaust.
Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the advance copy in return for an honest review.

A beautifully written and interesting book on the life of Anne Frank and her family.

I remember reading Anne Frank's diary at quite a young age and it sparked an interest in the Holocaust that has stayed with me throughout my life. I had the privilege of visiting Anne Frank Haus a couple of years ago and found it a moving and powerful experience.

This book tells Anne's story but also gives a perspective on what life was like for many Jewish people during this time. It describes many aspects of the Holocaust in simple language but still clearly portrays the horrors of this horrendous event.

It is highly informative and comprehensive - I had thought myself to be quite knowledgeable in this area but it taught me a lot about Anne's life that I was not previously aware of.

Many thanks to Second Story Press and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this in exchange for an honest review.

Im always curious to find out more about Anne Frank, its so heartbreaking the trials and torture that humans put each other through. While this story should be known by all, this story in particular was choppy. It had a solid premise, but seemed to go back from telling us about anne and margot dying, to asking if theu did (her father) quite afew times. Still, annes story should be heard!

My daughters loved this book. They were very interested in Anne Frank and loved reading a book that was more at their level 2nd and 4th grade.

The last entry in The Diary of Anne Frank is on August 1, 1944; and there's a short afterword where there's a list of what happened to the occupants of the Secret Annex. Anne Frank House released the All About Anne is a collection of the precise details before, during and after the Nazi's domination.

This 79-page book begins with a photo of Anne with her friends on her tenth birthday in 1939 when they were still in Germany. It is divided into 6 chapters with prologue and epilogue and it is full of pictures and a lot of trivia about Hitler, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. All About Anne is not only about Anne, but it also narrated what happened to her relatives, such as her uncles, grandmother, and cousins.

Reading the horrendous things happened to millions of people in World War II and the discrimination against the Jews inflicted on them is absolutely unfathomable, heartless and vile. Hateful propaganda such as that they are the misery of Germany is quite shocking and unacceptable; only those who are extremely despicable and lunatic can do and think such things. I've read several memoirs of Holocaust survivors before and it still appalls me everytime I read the dreadful things occurred then.

If you've read the Diary of Anne Frank before and fond of reading memoirs and accounts of Nazi's horrible governance, All About Anne is a great addition to your reading list because it would fulfill your desire for information.

For any reader of The Diary of Anne Frank, All About Anne is an excellent companion book that will provide answers to many questions that readers, especially young students, have about Anne and the Frank family. With All About Anne, readers are immediately drawn to the introductory story and photos of Anne's 10th birthday party. The succeeding chapters offer a well-assembled rich collection of primary sources and many fascinating photographs and compelling drawings that provide the extra details about Anne's early years, her family's life in seclusion and the events of WWII that impacted her short life. Other unique features include a family tree tracing Anne Frank's German and Jewish ancestry and frequent Question and Answer boxes covering topics such as "Why did Hitler hate the Jews?" and "What is a concentration camp?" Highly recommended for school libraries to purchase multiple copies as a natural pairing with The Diary of Anne Frank.

A beautiful collection of photography, nonfiction, and biographical information about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.

Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read All About Anne. I have taught the Diary of Anne Frank in the past when I taught eighth grade. I thought I knew almost everything there was to know about her and her family. I was wrong, in All About Anne I learned many facts that I hadn't read before. I found it very interesting. I would recommend this to be a companion book to Anne's Diary. It would help to explain the culture of the world at that time. It is definitely for a mature audience 8th grade and up.

This is an important, painful, fascinating and uncompromising look at the life of Anne Frank, her family and the destruction of the Jews during the Nazi years. The narrative is readable and makes Anne and her family come alive. There are many photos of Anne's daily life which serve as a painful reminder of all that was lost and the absurdity of one group of people despising and mistreating another. There are many asides in the book that answer historical questions. While not an easy read, this is a superb introduction to Anne, the horrors of WWII and antisemitism. The courage of those who hid the Franks is also noteworthy. While written for middle school to teen readers, adults can surely benefit from spending time with this book as well. I recommend it most highly.

A great book. Lots of pictures as well as little side notes that gave more insights into what was going on.

For all those questions that the children always ask about Ann Frank, other than what happened after she was taken away, the Anne Frank House has written a very thoroughly researched book, that puts her diary in focus, and in context.

When the diary was first published, just after WWII, there wouldn't have been quite so much of a need. The war was still quite fresh in everyone's minds, but as the years have gone by, it fades just a little more every year. Hard to believe that the war ended over 70 years, and that those who witnessed the war, both from the confines of a concentration camp, and those who fought in the war, are dying out.

Though the author of the diary is long dead, and her father, who helped to get it published, is gone as well, the house where she hid is a museum, where you can visit the secret annex. It is just as it was after the Nazi's took all the furniture away, the reason for which, is explained in this book..

I visited the Anne Frank House, as it is known, when I was in Amsterdam, 30 or so years ago. You can still see the clock tower that Anne looked out the window at.

The book follows her life, on some pages, and then has snapshots of what was going on at the same time, on the other pages. Very informative, very well written.

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An excellent book to have when you have read the diary. Fills in a lot of the gaps.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

A companion to, but surely no substitute for, Anne's world-famous Diary. This gives us context regarding the house, the family and where they were living before WW2, and of course the times during and immediately after, with a lot of pictorial content. It was fine to an extent, but I found it read too often like a collection of museum captions, with many attendant translation, punctuation and grammar problems, and a lack of a certain vim and character. This wasn't helped by the many informative box-outs taking attention away from, rather than adding to, the narrative, and an ungainly crick in the neck from vertical picture captions. I wish it well, however, and with the authority and nous of the actual House museum staff behind it, it can only be recommended.

***Thank you to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy of ALL ABOUT ANNE in exchange for my honest review.***

ALL ABOUT ANNE, a middle grade book about the life and death of Anne Frank, compiled by The Anne Frank House is an vitally important book that should be read by everyone, regardless of age.

Anne’s life and death are presented in a simple, yet fact filled eighty-page book that takes readers beyond Anne’s diary to include her life from birth to death with many photographs I had never seen including pictures from daily life, ticket stubs, posters etc. ALL ABOUT ANNE also presents important historical facts about the Holocaust, including America’s refusal of refugees during that period.

ALL ABOUT ANNE should be taught in schools, religious establishments and in families. Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.