Full name: Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

Author: Kathleen Krull Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780152020989 0152020985

Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad. This dramatic and inspiring true story is illustrated in bold watercolor and acrylic paintings by Caldecott Medal-winning artist David Diaz. Similar books: Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport Touch the Sky by Ann Malaspina Jesse Owens by Carole Boston Weatherford I am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith Jr. Hank Aaron by Peter Golenbock Talkin' About Bessie by Nikki Grimes She Loved Baseball by Audrey Vernick The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock A Secret Gift by Ted Gup The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him Togo by Robert J. Blake A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates