Shooting for the Moon
The Amazing life and Times of Annie Oakley

Illustrated by Bernie Fuchs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

Annie Oakley was the legendary sharpshooter and star
of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but she started out
as a poor girl struggling to survive in the Ohio farm
country of the 1860s.  This picture book biography tells the story
of a courageous young woman who grew up to become
a legend in her own time.

"Krensky does a good job of relating the highlights of the
sharpshooter's intrinsically interesting life and setting them
in historical perspective."  School Library Journal


The Center for Children's Books - Best Books of 2001

Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, 2002

Connecticut Center for the Book Semi-Finalist, 2002

Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List, 2002-2003

Young Hoosier (Indiana) Book Award nominee, 2003-2004

Show Me (Missouri) Reader Award nominee, 2003-2004

North Carolina Children's Book Award nominee, 2003-2004

KC3 (Greater Kansas City Association of School Librarians)
Reading Award nominee, 2003-2004

State Library of Ohio Bicentennial Booklist


Ages 7-10
Available in hardcover 32 pp.
ISBN: 0-374-56843-0