I've read this book once before in school and it stay with me for all these years.

I loved this graphic novel. Is the perfect way to visualise everything that those eight people went through inside that small house without infantilize the story. Anne Frank was a child with an adults mind and that is very cleverly illustrated in this book.

Everyone, everywhere, should read Anne Frank's story because is completely impossible to stay indifferent to it. 

I have heard so much about Anne Frank's Diary but never read it. I thought I'd give the graphic novel adaptation and pleasantly surprised at how realistic it felt. There are some entries that the text is included in full (as far as I know) with little art. So be prepared to read long texts. I like the inclusion of the Annex occupants' story after their capture.

 This is a solid adaptation that I would absolutely recommend, especially to young readers today who haven't read the original text. Anne's diary is unquestionably one of the most culturally relevant pieces of literature in recent history, and reading her entries gives so much insight into what her life was like, not only as a teen Jewish girl in hiding from Nazis, but also as a girl surrounded by bickering, stress, anguish, sorrow, grief, and dealing with all of that on top of her own internal struggles (such as puberty, loneliness, depression, and self-loathing).

All of that said, just to review this honestly (and explain the 4-star rating): Anne's narrative is so much angrier (and, to put it bluntly, brattier) than I remembered it being, and at times I found myself skim-reading her tangents.

✨ Representation: all main characters are Jewish, Anne essentially describes herself as bisexual or pansexual