{"product_id":"dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem-dressmaker-and-poet-myra-viola-wilds-a-picture-book-9781951836535","title":"Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of \u003ci\u003eBrown: The Many Shades of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and to write, and became a dressmaker. She hand-stitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight, and her world went dark. But those well-loved stitches turned into words, and one night Myra woke in the middle of the night and wrote a poem she called \"Sunshine.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e She kept writing. She wrote the lush green, sweet-corn yellow, cerulean blue, sunshine-y world from memory, collecting her poems into a book called \u003ci\u003eThoughts of Idle Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1915. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book biography celebrates this little-known poet and includes a biography that provides context to her life--the Great Migration, Jim Crow segregation--as well a photograph and a small selection of her poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Johnson James\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrown: The Many Shades of Love\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBlack: The Many Wonders of My World\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBlue: The Many Ways I Feel\u003c\/i\u003e in The Colors of My Life series. Her family is from the same Kentucky town that Wilds was from. She lives in Maryland. \u003cb\u003eDiana Ejaita\u003c\/b\u003e is an illustrator and textile designer based in Berlin. Her work can be found in \u003ci\u003eLet: A Poem About Wonder and Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Cameron Kids, and in her starred-reviewed picture book, \u003ci\u003eOlu and Greta\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abrams Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51187073024274,"sku":"9781951836535","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d47c73c8-d9f7-42a0-9fcf-f911541c5377.jpg?v=1744636810","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem-dressmaker-and-poet-myra-viola-wilds-a-picture-book-9781951836535","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}