Suggested Reading
Title: Shooting Star: Annie Oakley, the Legend, written by Debbie Dadey, illustrated by Scott Goto 1997
Description: An exaggerated account of the life and exploits of the sharp-shooting entertainer.
An exaggerated account of the life and exploits of the sharp-shooting entertainer.
Ages: 9-12
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Description: An exaggerated account of the life and exploits of the sharp-shooting entertainer.
An exaggerated account of the life and exploits of the sharp-shooting entertainer.
Ages: 9-12
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Title: Bull's-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley, written by Sue Macy, 2001
Description: Presents the facts and the fiction about the American icon who made herself famous for her shooting skills.
Ages: 9-12
Reviews: Gr 3-6 –This book is exemplary nonfiction: well documented, lots of period photos with credits, a resource list, and a chronology. Equally important is its engaging and well-crafted account of this famous woman of the West. Some of the facts of Phoebe Ann Moses Butler's life before she became "AnnieOakley" are less well known: her family was Quaker, but extreme poverty led her to use a gun for hunting; she spent two years as a child laborer for an abusive farmer; and she was a strong advocate for women learning to use firearms, offering to train a women's home-front protection division during World War I. Macy has drawn on family members' stories as well as Oakley's unpublished autobiography in this writing. Bull's-Eye is for a younger audience than Jean Flynn's excellent AnnieOakley (Enslow, 1998) and would be a good replacement for Robert Quackenbush's Who's That Girl with the Gun? (Prentice-Hall, 1988; o.p.).–Nancy Collins-Warner, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA --Nancy Collins-Warner (Reviewed October 1, 2001) (School Library Journal, vol 47, issue 10, p188)
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Description: Presents the facts and the fiction about the American icon who made herself famous for her shooting skills.
Ages: 9-12
Reviews: Gr 3-6 –This book is exemplary nonfiction: well documented, lots of period photos with credits, a resource list, and a chronology. Equally important is its engaging and well-crafted account of this famous woman of the West. Some of the facts of Phoebe Ann Moses Butler's life before she became "AnnieOakley" are less well known: her family was Quaker, but extreme poverty led her to use a gun for hunting; she spent two years as a child laborer for an abusive farmer; and she was a strong advocate for women learning to use firearms, offering to train a women's home-front protection division during World War I. Macy has drawn on family members' stories as well as Oakley's unpublished autobiography in this writing. Bull's-Eye is for a younger audience than Jean Flynn's excellent AnnieOakley (Enslow, 1998) and would be a good replacement for Robert Quackenbush's Who's That Girl with the Gun? (Prentice-Hall, 1988; o.p.).–Nancy Collins-Warner, Neill Public Library, Pullman, WA --Nancy Collins-Warner (Reviewed October 1, 2001) (School Library Journal, vol 47, issue 10, p188)
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Title: Who Was Annie Oakley? by Stephanie Spinner, 2002
Description: Describes the life of the frontier woman and sharpshooter who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Ages: 9-12
Reviews: Gr 3-5-AnnieOakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in Ohio. Her life story is told here-from her fatherless childhood through her marriage to Frank Butler and glory days traveling with Buffalo Bill's show to her death, 18 daysbefore her husband's, in 1926. "Little Sure Shot," as she was nicknamed by Sitting Bull, truly had a one-of-a-kind life. She raised herself upfrom a poor, abused baby-sitter to a sharpshooting show woman who enchanted Queen Victoria out of her post-Albert funk, no less. However, while her biographyis presented in full here, the prose is rather dry and uninviting. The black-and-white cartoons that pad the book are no better. Although two time lines areappended, there is no index. Sue Macy's Bull's-Eye (National Geographic, 2001) is a wonderful photobiography of Oakley that will be far more helpfulfor reports and is more enjoyable reading.-Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. -School Library Journal
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Description: Describes the life of the frontier woman and sharpshooter who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Ages: 9-12
Reviews: Gr 3-5-AnnieOakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in Ohio. Her life story is told here-from her fatherless childhood through her marriage to Frank Butler and glory days traveling with Buffalo Bill's show to her death, 18 daysbefore her husband's, in 1926. "Little Sure Shot," as she was nicknamed by Sitting Bull, truly had a one-of-a-kind life. She raised herself upfrom a poor, abused baby-sitter to a sharpshooting show woman who enchanted Queen Victoria out of her post-Albert funk, no less. However, while her biographyis presented in full here, the prose is rather dry and uninviting. The black-and-white cartoons that pad the book are no better. Although two time lines areappended, there is no index. Sue Macy's Bull's-Eye (National Geographic, 2001) is a wonderful photobiography of Oakley that will be far more helpfulfor reports and is more enjoyable reading.-Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information. -School Library Journal
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