Enjoy photographs of an adorable Jack Russell Terrier as she shares inspirational homespun advice. Welcome to Wilma’s World, where life is full of joy and adventure lies around every corner. This charming book of photographs celebrates the wise insights of a special dog whose musings remind us to slow down and see the beauty in simple things. Wilma’s handmade style and playful personality will inspire adventurous spirits everywhere.

A biography of Wilma Rudolph, an African-American who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track during a single Olympics.

As a child in Oklahoma, Wilma Mankiller experienced the Cherokee practice of Gadugi, helping each other, even when times were hard for everyone. But in 1956, the federal government uprooted her family and moved them to California, wrenching them from their home, friends, and traditions. Separated from her community and everything she knew, Wilma felt utterly lost until she found refuge in the Indian Center in San Francisco. There, she worked to build and develop the local Native community and championed Native political activists. She took her two children to visit tribal communities in the state, and as she introduced them to the traditions of their heritage, she felt a longing for home. Returning to Oklahoma with her daughters, Wilma took part in Cherokee government. Despite many obstacles, from resistance to female leadership to a life-threatening accident, Wilma's courageous dedication to serving her people led to her election as the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. As leader and advocate, she reinvigorated her constituency by empowering them to identify and solve community problems. This beautiful addition to the Big Words series will inspire future leaders to persevere in empathy and thoughtful problem-solving, reaching beyond themselves to help those around them. Moving prose by award-winning author Doreen Rappaport is interwoven with Wilma's own words in this expertly researched biography, illustrated with warmth and vivacity by Linda Kukuk.

Early in her life, doctors told Wilma Rudolph she would never walk. She had a disease called polio, which crippled her leg. But Wilma proved the doctors wrong. Not only did she walk, she also ran—fast! By the time she was sixteen, she had an Olympic bronze medal. She went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games. Find out how this dedicated athlete beat the odds to become a champion.

My short literary novel is about one woman's life. It begins as this large, red-haired woman is fishing from a pier that extends into the bay. She lights a cigarette, shifts the pole to her other hand and sighs with contentment for being alone this Sunday morning. Her mind scrolls back to her childhood as the third of four daughters of a southern mid-west farmer. She recalls the wonder she always felt toward her daddy, because he was tall and red-haired like she was, though none of his children were. He taught her that there was no shame in being poor - that some people just naturally were poor. Her memory replays the scenes of trauma of attending a neighbor's funeral service, the thrill of going to town for new school shoes, her graduation from 8th grade, and going to work in the nearby town of French Springs. Her meeting Elmer, their subsequent marriage, her loss of their first baby, his becoming involved with the idea of Unionism, and their moving to the West Coast. She remembers, but doesn't take much stock in people she has met who have told her that human's, through their minds, have more control of their lives than they think. She remembers too her second miscarriage, her husbands death, years of despair, including disappointing love affairs. But on this Sunday, Wilma is content. She subsists on a dish-washing job. She is 54 years old, overweight and alone. But she still believes that some people are just naturally supposed to be that way, so she is content.

Stories set in Alaska, Arizona California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.