Amsterdam has been designated as UNESCO World Book Capital, and will bear the title from 23 April 2008 to 22 April 2009. Three literary icons have been selected who tell a story of Amsterdam as a World Book Capital past and present: the philosopher Spinoza, internationally acclaimed children’s author Annie M.G. Schmidt, and the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank.
Emphasis on Anne Frank as an author
Throughout the year, the educational programmes in the Anne Frank House will have an extra emphasis on Anne as an author. Besides this, a simplified Dutch version of the life story of Anne Frank was published on 25 April. This book has been specially written for people with reading difficulties.
I never completely finished a book with so much suspense and emotion.
Hello,
We are portuguese students, aged 11, we live in Porto. Our school is Escola Francisco Torrinha.
Our teacher of literature and mother language propose us to read the ‘Diary’!
We are very impressed about the sad life of Anne Frank.
And we are loving so much read this excellent diary of a girl who was about our age.
What a sad story for a very young girl
We wrote a ‘post’ in our web blog ‘Blog dos Caloiros’ about the theme. If you want to visit it, please do