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Annie Oakley [Hardcover]

James Howard Kunstler (Author), Fred Warter (Author, Illustrator)


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Book Description

April 1996 5 and up
Actor Keith Carradine narrates this lively biography of American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, from her modest beginnings on a small farm to her stardom with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Music by Los Lobos.

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Kindergarten-Grade 3?A story, told as if by Will Rogers, of the life of the female sharpshooter. The basic outline seems to be fairly close to fact: the hardships of Annie's poverty-stricken childhood, her learning to shoot to put meat on the family table, her partnership and marriage to Frank Butler, and her career with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, including her adoption by Sitting Bull. The fictionalizing consists primarily of invented conversations and omissions, such as the train wreck that temporarily crippled Annie. The emphasis is on her glory days as a touring performer; it's hard to see what is gained by the introduction of Will Rogers as the narrator, however. The illustrations are full-color paintings, done in a lively style that employs dramatic angles and lighting effects, as well as faces that are so expressive as to approach caricature (for example, the inhabitants of the royal box feature a loony Michael, Grand Duke of Russia, and a zonked Queen Victoria). They almost appear to be storyboard sketches for an animated film. The audiocassette accompanying the book does not follow the text word by word. It is read by actor Keith Carradine in a laid-back drawl that seems fitting for Will Rogers, and the music, by the group Los Lobos, ranges from hoe-down to Native American without missing a beat. Since the story doesn't have enough facts to be useful for reports, buy it for the lively pictures and professional-quality audio.?Pam Gosner, Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Juv); Har/Cas edition (April 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0689806051
  • ISBN-13: 978-0689806056
  • Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,409,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James Howard Kunstler is probably best known as the author of "The Long Emergency" (The Atlantic Monthly Press 2005), and "The Geography of Nowhere" (Simon and Schuster, 1993). Two other non-fiction titles in that series are "Home From Nowhere" (Simon and Schuster, 1996), and "The City in Mind" (Simon and Schuster, 2002). He's also the author of many novels, including his tale of the post-oil American future, "World Made By Hand" (The Atlantic Monthly press, 2008). The sequel will be published in the fall of 2010. His shorter work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Metropolis, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and many other periodicals.

James Howard Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He attended New York's High School of Music and art and SUNY Brockport (BA, Theater, 1971). He was a reporter for the Boston Phoenix, the Albany Knickerbocker News, and later an editor with Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975 he dropped out of corporate journalism to write books, and settled in Saratoga Spring, New York, where he has lived ever since.

Kunstler's popular blog, Clusterf**k Nation, is published every Monday morning at www.kunstler.com and his weekly podcast, The KunstlerCast, is refreshed every Thursday.

Kunstler is also a serious professional painter. His work may be seen at www.kunstler.com

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