Kahtahah: A Tlingit Girl

By Frances Lackey Paul

Book Overview

This captivating true story of a Tlingit girl in Southeast Alaska in the 1800s was selected as one of the Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children for 1996.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882400584
• ISBN13: 9780882400587
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fascinating story with fabulous illustrations!

This book captures the true story of a young Alaska native girl growing up in a family devoted to the old Tlingit customs but still adapting (if often reluctantly) to the ways of the whites increasingly dominating their world. More a set of stories than a single narrative, it includes retellings of several folk tales, historical details of how the Tlingit lived, and a lot of beautiful drawings I spent many childhood afternoons trying to copy.My grandmother gave me an earlier edition of this book when I was nine, and by the time I turned thirteen I'd read it so many times it literally fell apart. I still have it and enjoy rereading it.