MixedThe Atlantic\"... it was both thrilling and disappointing to read Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, illustrated by David Polonsky and adapted by Ari Folman. The book’s carefully crafted images interpret elements of Frank’s story with beauty and humor. But passages like the one that reads, \'We still love life, we haven\'t yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping,\' are missing, and the girl who breathed dimension into an unfathomable history is flattened, her power diluted ... the adaptation’s selective, late shift to the text obscures the very development [of Frank\'s writing] and gives readers a limited view of Frank’s skills ... While the graphic adaptation captures some of Frank’s personality, energy, pain, and creative ability, it’s so abridged that readers are shortchanged on her inner monologue, on the beautifully articulated and nuanced view of the world, and on the three-dimensional narration that brings you with Frank into the annex ... More than any particular fact or event, the graphic version is missing the sense of familiarity that slowly builds, more strongly and deeply than you realize, until the moment that this friend, this stand-in for you, confronts the thing she’d feared for so long: the moment that stole her fantasies of her life \'after the war\' out from under her. The last pages of the adaptation feel like the end of a story, not the end of a life.\
