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Title: You Be the Jury by Marvin Miller ISBN: 0-590-45727-6 Publisher: Apple Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good companion book for the famous diary
Comment: Had this been a collection of stories and essays by anybody else, I would have thought it was nothing special. But having read the Diary of Anne Frank first, the stories and essays make so much more sense. You can just see her whiling away the dull moments of the life in the secret annex, honing her writing skills. It is easy to see her skills as a writer increase from story to story. But even more interesting is to read the messages contained within her works. The writing skills she displays are obviously that of a teenager, although much better than most people her age. But the real value of these pieces are the insights which she brings to them; her life experiences and her approach to life's big questions. The last essay in the collection is entitled, "Why" and seems to sum up her short life. Read this book, but only after you read the Diary so the essays will be meaningful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable stories for young and old alike.
Comment: In her now famous Diary, Anne Frank said "I want to go on living even after my death". As of 1998, The Diary of Anne Frank had reached sales of 25 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. (source: TIME, October 5, 1998). It has been required classroom reading for half a century now! In a way, her wish has come to pass.
This subsequent publication "Tales From The Secret Annex" combines short stories, reminiscences/vignettes, and even an unfinished novel to show us yet another dimension to this remarkable person. Reading these stories and little essays confirmed my personal opinion that Anne Frank was a childhood genius with unlimited potential to achieve anything she would have set her mind to. It's hard to imagine this thirteen year old girl writing with such depth and perception, while living in seclusion, terror and fear for her life. She was writing from her heart, not with an expectation of being published. And yet these stories shine with a polished brilliance, and a certain unforgettable quality. I read this book for the first time 8 years ago, and have returned to it now, remembering the stories as though I had read them just last week. My favorite is entitled "Kathy". In three short pages, Anne captures every emotion experienced by a kid who is misunderstood by her mother, assaulted by schoolyard bullies who mock and rob her and cause her to lose the gift she was bringing home to her mother.
Here is how she ends her essay entitled "Give":
"If only our country and then Europe and finally the whole world would realize that people were really kindly disposed toward one another, that they are all equal and everything else is transitory!
Open your eyes... give of yourself, give as much as you can! And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! No one has ever become poor from giving! If you do this, then in a few generations no one will need to pity the beggar children anymore, because they will not exist!
There is plenty of room for everyone in the world, enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share! God has made enough for everyone. Let us all begin by sharing it fairly." (written March 26, 1944).
Anne was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where some time during March 1945, she, her sister Margot and hundreds of other prisoners were stricken with typhus. Their captors, preoccupied with the advancing Allies, left them to die.
World... read her book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great stories and reminicenses from a talented young girl.
Comment: I truly enjoyed Anne Frank's Diary, now I have had the privilege to read her tales. A talent in it's purest form. I believe it was Anne Frank who said she wanted to be famous and/or to live on after her death, and of course she has in so many ways. Her diary has sold millions upon millions of copies around the world, her story told in a broadway play, countless films and documentary's.To me it looks like Anne has gotten her wish, she has lived on, more than she'll ever know. I like so many other's have wondered what kind of person Anne Frank would have been if she had survived, of course we will never know, but her diary and her story's were left behind to be discovered and to be told to everyone around the world, what a good person we could have a had on this planet, a great and talented young girl who was taken away but not forgotten.
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Title: You Be the Jury: Courtroom III by Marvin Miller ISBN: 0590457241 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: You Be the Jury: Courtroom II by Marvin Miller ISBN: 059045725X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: You Be the Jury: Courtroom V by Marvin Miller, Colin Mier ISBN: 0590739107 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: You Be the Jury: Courtroom IV by Marvin Miller ISBN: 0590457233 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer ISBN: 0385423608 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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