About the Book: Wilma Rudolph
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the
life of Wilma Rudolph, the remarkable sprinter and Olympic champion. Wilma was
born into a family with 22 brothers and sisters, in the segregated South. She
contracted polio in her early years and her doctors said she would never walk
again. But Wilma persisted with treatment, and she recovered her strength by the
age of 12. At school, Wilma showed a talent for basketball and sprinting,
earning the nickname skeeter (mosquito) as she ran so fast. Wilma was in college
when she went to the 1960 Olympics. She not only