Book Descriptions
for The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz and Ed Young
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Pocahontas lived in both the world of her village and that of colonial Jamestown until hostility between the new settlers and the Indians caused her to leave the English world for a time. Her conflict of identity and subsequent kidnapping to England are related in a reliable, low-key account containing both drama and tragedy. With detailed notes, a bibliography and an Index. (Age 9 and older)
CCBC Choices 1983. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1983. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
A complex and fascinating historical figure illuminated by Newbery Honor-winning Jean Fritz.
In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her.
"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of a girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world." —Publishers Weekly
"Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from the legend and turns history into engrossing reality." —The New Yorker
In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her.
"This book dispels myths and describes with immediacy the life of a girl whose active conscience made her a pawn, exploited by her own people and the white world." —Publishers Weekly
"Jean Fritz removes the romantic varnish from the legend and turns history into engrossing reality." —The New Yorker
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
