Thinking back, there were precious few books about important women when I was a kid, much less books about women of color, and the ones I did find I had to search pretty hard for. I loved reading about important people when they were kids, especially women like Clara Barton and Helen Keller, identifying with their childhood frustrations with having to sew quilts instead of play outside, or having keep their opinions to themselves when they were bursting with things to say. I must have read that book a hundred times, along with Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs, and books from the Childhood of Famous Americans series. (I am sure I meant to, I really am, but how Annie was so much like me.
Coleman, had a book called Annie Oakley by Ellen Wilson, and please don't tell anyone, but I borrowed it from the classroom library and somehow never returned it. I know that because in the fifth grade my teacher, Mrs. Did you know that Annie Oakley had a cow called "Old Pink?" Or that she made her first quail trap out of cornstalks? Or that the very first time she picked up a rifle, she was able to shoot a walnut that was hanging off a tree?
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