Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman

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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman was written by Kathleen Krull. It is one of Top 150 African-American Children’s Book and #1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book! It was published on February 01, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This nonfiction book has 44 pages and the online price was $7.00.[1]

Summary

This story tells about a young African American girl named Wilma Rudolph . She 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 African 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. [2]

Pros

This book was very accurate in the details of Wilma Randolph’s life and how she became an Olympic athlete. The author wrote these details in a way that a young reader would be able to understand what had happened to Wilma in her younger years and how she strived to be a more than what everyone thought she could be. A poignant moment in the book was when she took off her brace at church and walked down the aisle on her own and began to sing with the choir. This kind of details helps readers understand how Wilma persevered over extreme circumstances and became the person that was destined to outrun everyone in the world.[2]

Publishers Weekly wrote about this book in a positive way. The artist's bold design superimposes this art against sepia-toned photographs of relevant background images: playground sand, wooden fence slats, the gravel of a running track. This juxtaposition yields busy, effectively textured pages, flawed only by the text's curiously embellished font-the letters look as though they have been speckled with either ink blots or dust. A triumphant story triumphantly relayed [3]

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