Shooting For The Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley - Hardcover

Krensky, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374368430 ISBN 13: 9780374368432

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2001

Synopsis

A survivor who refused to give up.

The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley.

"Aim at a high mark and you will hit it" is the motto the legendary sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Annie Oakley, lived by. How did a young girl growing up on a hardscrabble Ohio farm become a legend in her own time?

Based on her own writings and illustrated with hauntingly expressive oil paintings by one of America's foremost illustrators, this dramatic picture-book biography offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a courageous young girl who went on to break barriers in the field of sports, becoming recognized by Will Rogers and others as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced."

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Krensky is the author of many books, including How Santa Got His Job, an ALA Notable Book. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Bernie Fuchs is the youngest artist ever inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.

From Publishers Weekly:

Fuchs's (Ghost of the Southern Belle) light-dappled, impressionistic oil paintings provide a dramatic backdrop to this picture book-biography of 19th-century sharpshooter Annie Oakley. As a child, Annie helped support her impoverished Ohio farming family with her hunting skills and, at 20, outshot a professional, Frank Butler, whom she later married. Stepping in for her husband one night at an exhibition, she became an instant hit with the crowd ("A woman who could shoot like Annie was a rare sight indeed") and her speed, accuracy and daring stunts such as shooting an apple off her dog's head earned her a spot with the circus, then with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, where she went on to fame and glory. Krensky (How Santa Got His Job) paints a vigorous portrait of this legendary sportswoman, drawing from her own diaries for the crisply informative text and afterword. Fuchs heightens the drama by drenching his canvases with layers of earth tones and touching the shadowy images with light, from the reflection on the glass balls Annie targets to the gleam of the sun through the high canopy of trees in the Ohio forest. "Aim at a high mark and you will hit it," was Annie's life motto words which effectively describe this bull's-eye of a collaboration as well. Ages 5-8.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374368430
• ISBN 13: 9780374368432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Fuchs Bernie