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Book

The house on the canal : the story of the house that hid Anne Frank

Call Number

  • J 940.5318 HARD (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First US edition.

Publication Information

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2025.

Physical Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 x 29 cm

Audience

02-05 Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press.

Summary

"In the middle of Amsterdam, next to a canal, stands a tall, narrow house. It was built almost four hundred years ago and has served as a home, a warehouse, a stable, and most notably, a hiding place. Sometimes it was splendidly decorated, humming with life and love; other times, the narrow house stood empty, in near ruins. Sometimes its green door was open and inviting; other times, it was closed against cold and plague or to conceal the victims of wartime persecution. This is the story of an extraordinary building, a structure that Anne Frank called in the pages of her diary 'the old house on the canal.'"--

Notes

First published in 2023 as Das alte Haus an der Gracht.

Subtitle from cover.

Subjects

Added Authors

Britta Teckentrup