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Shooting Star
An account of the life and exploits of the sharp-shooting entertainer.
- GenresPicture BooksBiography
32 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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Debbie Dadey
234 books328 followersDebbie Dadey is the author and co-author of 162 books for children, including the Mermaid Tales series from Simon and Schuster and the beloved Adventures of The Bailey School Kids from Scholastic. Ms. Dadey is a former teacher and librarian. Please like her at Facebook.com/debbiedadey.
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December 8, 2022
It started off on such an odd note, and I didn’t know how to take it, but when I got to the end and read that this book is mostly exaggerated, it made sense. I’m not a fan of tall tales, lies really, that just distort the truth and make someone believe it.
The author wrote that as a baby Annie spit billets out of her cradle and hit the roof of the barn, and kept doing it until her dad had to move the barn 15 miles down the road to keep her from spitting bullets at it. I was like how can she spit far enough to hit the barn?? The impossibility of that is just not funny.
I had already heard this, but it was nice reading again that Annie was 15 when she went up against the world famous marksman Frank Butler and beat him in the shooting match. “Word was that Frank Butler lost something more valuable than a hundred dollars that day: He lost his heart.”
Sitting Bull challenged her to shoot the point off a star with his gun. She practiced and put a wagonload of powder in her gun and made craters in the moon and then picked a star 15 million light years away and used two wagonloads of powder packed into the gun. The explosion was so loud it caused the Snake River to flow backward and shucked corn in 15 states. Sitting Bull’s shout could be heard in Paris. The crowd cheered so hard it turned her hair white. She shot all 5 points off the star and those landed to form land masses like the Hawaiian Islands.
Annie had wagonloads of medals, which she melted down and sold to donate the money to a children’s hospital.
I didn’t like the way it was worded that she kept shooting until one day she up and died. And if you see a shooting star then that’s Annie facing a challenge.
I didn’t like the illustrations either, and the style of writing is not for me.
The author wrote that as a baby Annie spit billets out of her cradle and hit the roof of the barn, and kept doing it until her dad had to move the barn 15 miles down the road to keep her from spitting bullets at it. I was like how can she spit far enough to hit the barn?? The impossibility of that is just not funny.
I had already heard this, but it was nice reading again that Annie was 15 when she went up against the world famous marksman Frank Butler and beat him in the shooting match. “Word was that Frank Butler lost something more valuable than a hundred dollars that day: He lost his heart.”
Sitting Bull challenged her to shoot the point off a star with his gun. She practiced and put a wagonload of powder in her gun and made craters in the moon and then picked a star 15 million light years away and used two wagonloads of powder packed into the gun. The explosion was so loud it caused the Snake River to flow backward and shucked corn in 15 states. Sitting Bull’s shout could be heard in Paris. The crowd cheered so hard it turned her hair white. She shot all 5 points off the star and those landed to form land masses like the Hawaiian Islands.
Annie had wagonloads of medals, which she melted down and sold to donate the money to a children’s hospital.
I didn’t like the way it was worded that she kept shooting until one day she up and died. And if you see a shooting star then that’s Annie facing a challenge.
I didn’t like the illustrations either, and the style of writing is not for me.
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June 16, 2022
This book is a little tough to classify... Annie Oakley was a real person, but she was so good at what she did, her life was prone to exaggeration. This book takes the exaggeration and runs with it! Annie does all sorts of fantastical things (and some things from her real life). The note in the back helps readers separate fact from fiction.
March 12, 2013
This biography looks at many of the exaggerated legends and myths surrounding this larger-than-life Ohio farm girl turned Old West superstar. At the end of this account, it also provides many facts and details of her real life. A discussion topic would be asking kids why and how they think some of these legends and myths about her got started.
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October 6, 2014
Tall tale version of Annie's life, entertaining read aloud with fun illustrations, truth behind the tales on the last page.
April 21, 2012
basic facts about Annie Oakley but in an exaggerated tall tale sort of way.
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