The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

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The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

First, I want to say that I believe that this book should still be included in the school curriculum. The only thing ‘new’ about it is that pages and passages were added. Nothing was taken out and the translation was not changed. Reports that the book is so different that it’s nothing like the original are false. Reports that the story is different are false.

There is no reason for the edited version to still be used because children read Anne Frank’s diary around ages 11-14 years old which was around the age when Anne herself was writing the diary. Anything that could be seen as supposedly “inappropriate” can be seen on daytime television with a PG or maybe PG-13 rating. Especially these days, there’s nothing in there that is beyond the norm for the average tween-teen. I think that continuing to use an edited version is insulting to Anne Frank’s memory. Not only that, but it provides valuable information about the period and gives more relateability to the diary.

The passages which are included in the new version are not anything that the average 8-12 year-old girl does not already know about her own body and the “birds and the bees”, and are so few and short that they comprise a tiny percentage of the work itself. The romance between herself and Peter is very chaste and nothing untoward happens in the story. (Spoiler: they hold hands and kiss a few times. that’s it.) The passages that some see as inappropriate are not at all titillating, a medical textbook is more erotic. Coming from a mom’s point of view, I would allow my daughter to read the unedited book.

✅ Genre: Biography, Autobiography, Personal narrative, Jewish literature.

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