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DK's acclaimed Biography line shine the spotlight on sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Includes detailed sidebars, handy vocabulary, and a visual timeline. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Lexile Measure: 1120 (What's this?)
Series: DK Biography
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: DK Children (July 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756629977
ISBN-13: 978-0756629977
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #161,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #50 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Performing Arts #153 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Women #331 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Historical
Age Range: 10 - 17 years
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Annie Oakley would probably have liked this little book about her life and career a lot; simply and smoothly written, unpretentious, yet beautifully edited and laid out, telling its story doubly well in its seamless interplay of pictures and prose. It almost seems to bring the museum-piece Annie Oakley of a bygone era back to life, which is really what one is apt to want most of all. Annie Oakley was so utterly unique a performer and personality as to be almost unintelligible to our modern sensibilities, leaving one wondering "Who was that masked sharpshooter anyway?" By the end of this book, vivid as its account is, you almost feel that you know.Annie Oakley was personally unpretentious almost to the point of self-effacement, except for two things; she loved performing before big crowds all her life, and, in that performance, she was the real deal; no trickery, nothing up her sleeve, what you saw was what you got. She really was, as far as it's possible to judge, the best sharpshooter who ever lived, and as such something of a paradox. In person Annie was sweet-natured, soft-spoken and eminently ladylike. With a gun in her hand, on the other hand, no old Western gunslinger of note would have stood a chance against her, a fact which some of them probably knew, since they knew her personally and had seen her shoot.Personally honest to a fault, Annie certainly wasn't the real deal in the sense of how Buffalo Bill's Wild West show promoted her, as a rootin' tootin' shootin' cowgirl of the Golden West, a persona she cheerfully lived up to for show purposes as just part of the ethical cost of doing business and giving the rubes what they want.
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