Shooting Star:
 Annie Oakley, the Legend
 Debbie Dadey, Illustrations by Scott Goto
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 1997 Walker Pub. Co. NY USA
  ISBN: 0802784844


Maybe it's truth or maybe it's legend but folks say there wasn't anything Annie Oakley could'nt shoot, from the flame on a candle to the center of a playing card. She was just warming up with those - who do you think put the craters in the moon, anyway?

With Scott Goto's bold & expressive illustrations Debbie Dadey's telling of the true & tall tales of the finest of female shots careens from page to page the way all yarns are told.

You have to think that Annie Oakley would have been proud of the gusto this team has put in to retell the tall yet true tale of a frontier girl whose eye was so sharp & her aim so true that she got to meet a queen, shoot better than all the men in the world & work with the greats of the Wild American West Shows.

Another name for Annie Oakley was Calamity Jane & this book: Shooting Star is another splendid edition to the legend & humor of this fiercely fine shooting star.

When things weren't going too well in the Wild West Show business, Sitting Bull gives her the biggest challenge of her life & a great legend is made.

Scott Goto's amazing pictures are dazzling, absorbing & have just that tint that I know is the color of the Wild West Days.

Shooting Star is a super first time effort from the author, Debbie Dadey & the illustrator, Scott Goto & a fine way to teach your children about legends, tall tales & true life heroes.
(07/23/00)

Rebecca