In Between
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Cover Story
This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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In Between
Eleven short stories - none longer than about 14 pages - dealing with the moment childhood is left behind. A strong and interesting collection for Year 9 and up. Michael Morpurgo's 'What Does It Feel Like?' is particularly moving as a young Bosnian girl watches the destruction of her village and the 'ethnic cleansing' of her family and neighbours; she manages to survive thanks to the humanity of one of the Serb soldiers. I also liked Ian Strachan's 'The Simple Truth' in which Lucy is attracted to the dangerous biker Alex who runs through girlfriends at a rate of knots. Her long friendship with mentally handicapped Sam is a hindrance to this new relationship but when Alex comes on too strong one dark night in the woods it is Sam who comes to Lucy's aid - but at the cost of the innocence that was the basis of their friendship.
