This is an odd book -- starting with the lack of the question mark in the title. It's a fantasy story inspired by Anne Frank's diary and is about Anne Frank's diary. Literally. The protagonist of this book is Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne addressed her diary entries. A lightning bolt strikes the diary on display at the modern day Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam, and Kitty springs to life. She's invisible in the museum and can only exist outside the museum if she is close to Anne's diary . . . so she steals it and runs off to have adventures with some Robin Hood-style street urchins who help out war refugees trying to find haven in the Netherlands.

As Kitty evades law enforcement on her convertible ice skates (!!!) and by swinging about on ropes, she remembers what happens to Anne by re-reading the diary, leading up to the Anne's eventual fate of which Kitty is ignorant.

It would be rather moving if it weren't also so silly and campy.

It's all the more disappointing since I so loved the author's Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation.

This graphic novel was originally released in French in 2021 in conjunction with an animated film of the same name that same year, and I am assuming it is an adaptation of the film instead of the other way around, but it is not made clear anywhere on the book itself or on the movie's website. I'm thinking the story might go down better as a movie, but I'm not going to rush out to track it down anytime soon. ( )

Dopo aver realizzato il graphic novel tratto dal Diario di Anne Frank, il regista israeliano Ari Folman, affiancato dalla disegnatrice Lena Guberman, racconta di nuovo la storia di Anne. Questa volta però lo fa da un punto di vista originale e insolito, quello di Kitty, l'amica immaginaria a cui sono confidati i segreti del Diario. E attraverso il suo sguardo sognante e determinato ci restituisce tutta la scottante attualità del messaggio di Anne. Un messaggio che dobbiamo tornare ad ascoltare per far sí che le tragedie della Storia non si ripetano. (fonte: Retro di copertina)