Wilma Unlimited

One of the most energetic kids in the town of Clarksville, Tennessee, Wilma loves to run and laugh and play with her nineteen older brothers and sisters. But before she's five years old, she gets very sick, and the doctor's news is not good: polio has paralyzed her left leg. Everyone says that Wilma will never walk again. Wilma refuses to believe it. Not only will she walk again, she vows, she'll run. It takes years. It takes hard work. But at last she does run - across the basketball court, around the track, and eventually, all the way to the Olympic Games. Wilma Rudolph's triumphant journey is the subject of Kathleen Krull's Wilma Unlimited, a true story dramatically visualized in David Diaz's striking illustrations.