Japan Children’s Literature Association Award にほんじどうぶんがくしゃきょうかいしょう
Edition 20 (1980)
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2 peopleMy Anne Frank is a children's novel in which thirteen-year-old Yuko begins writing a diary addressed to Anne Frank after receiving The Diary of Anne Frank. Yuko's daily life intersects with her mother's thoughts on war and Auschwitz, bringing questions of freedom and human dignity into focus through the voices of a family.
A diary addressed to Anne links a girl's everyday life with her mother's memories, asking what war does to human dignity.
Thirteen-year-old Yuko begins keeping a diary addressed to Anne Frank, while her mother Fukiko writes of her journey to Auschwitz and the memories it awakens. By crossing a girl's everyday life with her mother's encounter with history, the story asks young readers to think about war, discrimination, freedom, and human dignity.
Diaries addressed to Anne lead a girl and her mother toward the pain of history.