Who Was Annie Oakley?
Grade 3-5-Annie Oakley 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 days before 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  up from 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 biography is 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 are appended, there is no index. Sue Macy's Bull's-Eye  (National Geographic, 2001) is a wonderful photobiography of  Oakley that will be far more helpful for reports and is more  enjoyable reading.Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public  Library, WICopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.