Cornelia Meigs News Today

The award-winning author has written both fiction and nonfiction books about people who interact deeply with the natural world.

Philomel 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? I know that because in the fifth grade my teacher, Mrs. Coleman, had a book called Annie Oakley by Ellen Wilson, and please dont tell anyone, but I borrowed it from the classroom library and somehow never returned it. (I am sure I meant to, I really...