Anne Frank’s Story

Her Life Retold for Children

By: Carol Ann Lee

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

The Diary of Anne Frank is read and loved by children throughout the world. Yet few of those readers know what life was really like for the young Jewish girl before and after she wrote her famous diary.

Written in a lively yet sympathetic style, Anne Frank’s Story follows Anne Frank from her birth in Germany and her happy childhood in Amsterdam through the years she and her family spent in hiding from the Nazis, to her imprisonment and eventual death in the concentration camps.

“This book gives children the opportunity to meet Anne Frank, to know her story and her destiny, and to learn that discrimination in every form is evil and inhuman.” - Buddy Elias, first cousin to Anne Frank

Carol Ann Lee was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1969. She began work on a biography of Anne Frank when she was 18 years old, but she put it aside while she attended college at Manchester University. In 1998 her book Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank was published to critical acclaim. Anne Frank’s Story is her second book. Carol Ann Lee is married and lives in Amsterdam.

©2002 Carol Ann Lee (P)2002 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Marvelously read by Barbara Rosenblat. There are a few instances where her voice catches due to the emotional nature of the text she is reading.” ( Large Print Reviews)

Important history

This was a good introduction to the Anne Frank story. A good prelude to the diary that teaches us history.

Good for children

The story is definitely geared towards children. I listened to it, but some of the content I wanted to hear about was edited out. But Anne Frank was a remarkable child whose story needs to be told.

love it

the first time ihave e er heard the book in any form.it is beautiful and i will read it again

May we never repeat this history...

My first encounter with Anne Frank was when I watched the movie as a child. All I remembered was that she and her family were hiding from the Nazis.

I really enjoyed listening to this book. It made me sad to realise that so many people were lost, so many voices, because of one man’s hatred!

It is my sincere hope that her story will prevent this from happening again.

Thank you to the narrator too.

Great read!

I’d watched and/or read the Diary of Anne Frank as a child but didn’t remember much of it. All these years I thought that she died during their capture instead of in a concentration camp. Hearing this story was very rough but I loved hearing about young Anne and how lively she was. I feel that I can use my imagination and say that she would’ve been a great writer, poet, actor, director, or really anything she wanted to be. She was gonna be famous.

Anna Frank

Hello this is Stella, I am 10 years old, and I have finished this book in two days. I wanted to say I absolutely love this book, I know I didn’t give you a full review (stars) on it but it’s one of my favorites I love listening to books that tell you about other peoples history and what they’ve been living through, I feel angry sometimes but now I understand how are Anna Frank (and some others I mean lots of others) has been going through now I feel very lucky 🍀.
Sincerely,
✨Stella Hemmann✨
P.S. Love it! could you do some more about some other people, please???

The Narrator was absolutely amazing

The Narrator’s voice was absolutely amazing and smooth making it easy, and pleasurable to listen to. I truly enjoyed the content of the book and how it was very descriptive to the point of feeling like I was in certain scenes in person! Very good performance and story!

Love Anne frank

I love Anne frank her story is so interesting to me and I would recommend this to almost anyone. Carol Ann Lee writes it perfectly where it doesn’t sound a s frightening as it was. Thank you so much for this book!

Essential listening for children

I listened to this in the car on the way home from a Scout camp with 4 boys aged 8-10. They were enthralled, curious and eager to discuss. They are now keen to read the diary for themselves. Beautifully narrated. I listened at x1.3 so we could get through it on the journey and it still sounded great

Excellent read

Absolutely wonderful. It gives a great view into Anne and her family's life before the war, and before she started her diary. I am hoping my daughter likes this book as much as I did.