The tree in the backyard

The book that introduces the delicate story of Anne Frank to children

The tree at Prinsengracht 263 watched as the girl played and wrote in her diary. When strangers invaded Amsterdam and planes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl pull back the curtains of her father's factory annex to spy on her. The tree also saw the girl taken away with her family—and her father return after the war, alone. The summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, the tree died. But its seeds and seedlings were planted around the world as a symbol of peace.