I used embroidery floss, fabric pieces, yarn, and cotton loops from a potholder loom kit. I gathered some sticks outside and added a wooden spool and clothespin.

cardboard tubes or flat cardboard shapes.

MATERIALS: Use what you have or can find, such as: PROJECT: Wrap and weave string around twigs, sticks or other found objects, just like Judith! There’s only one photo of Judith’s sculpture in the end notes so make sure to look up more examples of her amazing work! Sweet makes sure to note that she is *interpreting* Judith’s art in her illustration. Sweet often uses found objects in her playful, color-filled art, a nice correlation with Judith’s sculptures. Joyce’s determination to nourish Judith’s mind and spirit lead them to a studio called the Creative Growth Art Center, and eventually to a “new language” for Judith–an art form that’s intricate, entwined, intriguing, and all her own.Ĭaldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet is the perfect illustrator for this picture book.

Their effortless bond, subsequent devastating separation and much later reunion form the backbone of the story, all written in beautiful, heartfelt vignettes.

Joyce Scott and her twin Judith, who is born with Down’s Syndrome and also deaf, are keenly, wordlessly connected as children. This book! If you are looking for a story about self-expression, creativity, the deep river of sisterhood, AND the experience of a person living with a disability, Unbound ticks all the boxes and then some.

Unbound judith scott