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Summary
"At last, National Geographic's award-winning photobiography of Annie Oakley bursts into paperback. This stirring story of an enduring American heroine has won widespread acclaim and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Annie's amazing life comes sharply into focus in a compelling narrative, period photography, and in her own words. Two historical maps and a chronology ground the legend in time and place. Readers ride through a life filled with adventure. Annie grows up in the backwoods of Ohio, hunting game to feed her family. Discovered by Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, she wows crowds with target shooting and daring horse riding. Annie's hardships are examined too, as is her inspirational status as a role model for women. Awards include:"American Library Association Notable BookBest Book of the Year--School Library JournalTexas Bluebonnet Award Master List
Author Notes
Sue Macy is the author of Freeze Frame and Swifter, Higher, Stronger, which received starred review from School Library Journal and Booklist. She lives in Englewood, NJ.
Reviews (4)
Horn Book Review
While Annie Oakley does not seem to offer much meat for the biographer's table, Macy does a creditable job, distinctly voiced, of giving us the facts of Oakley's life, her sharpshooting accomplishments, and her stature as an American icon and folk hero. The plenitude of black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs is sometimes repetitive but always atmospheric. A chronology is included. Bib., ind. From HORN BOOK Spring 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 5-8. When a person becomes a legend, it can be difficult to sort out the truth, especially in the case of Annie Oakley, whose life was relentlessly fictionalized. Macy does a good job of sifting out the facts and retelling them in an enjoyable fashion. Born in rural Ohio, eight-year-old Phoebe Ann Moses took the family shotgun to find supper one day and was seemingly never seen again without a gun in her hands. She was soon shooting game to sell to restaurants, a practice that led her to a marksmanship contest with sharpshooter Frank Butler, who eventually became her husband, costar, and manager. At the end of her 20-year career, Oakley had toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, performed on Broadway, and garnered acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. Macy's readable, attractive biography, which conveys both Oakley's homespun simplicity and her business savvy, is illustrated with beautiful sepia-tone photographs and drawings--a combination that will satisfy students and browsers alike. A chronology and a bibliography are appended. --Randy Meyer
School Library Journal Review
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 "Annie Oakley" 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 Annie Oakley (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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The Annie Oakley of stage and television is a rough-and-tumble heroine who little resembles the real-life woman. Born Phoebe Ann in 1860, she was the sixth daughter of a farming couple from Ohio and showed an unusual spirit at a very young age. The loss of her father when she was five left Annie's mother to raise her children alone and Annie took responsibility for chores far beyond what would be expected for a child her age. From the ages of 10 to 14, hardship forced her mother to place Annie in other homes to earn her keep. At 14, she returned to her family and found an aptitude for hunting, killing game for the family table and for sale. At 15, her first shooting match against an expert marksman led to her career as a performer in traveling shows and to her long-term marriage to the sharpshooter, Frank Butler. Annie became internationally famous drawing thousands of people who came to see performances of marksmanship in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show. Always spirited and independent, Annie believed that "God intended women to be outside as well as men" and devoted time to teach at least 500 women to shoot. Photographs, publicity stills, copies of programs, the lively text, and quotations from Annie, herself, reveal the extraordinary woman behind the myth. A chronology, bibliography, index, and author's note on historical research complete the package. (Nonfiction. 10-14)
