{"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\u003eWhat dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. 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.\" 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\u003eWritten in Wilds's style, 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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Abrams Books for Young Readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781951836535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2024 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nancy Johnson James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44833851736245,"sku":"9781951836535","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_340eb1be-9308-4861-8439-3b9baad1fadb.jpg?v=1732030352","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dream-a-dress-dream-a-poem-dressmaker-and-poet-myra-viola-wilds-a-picture-book-9781951836535","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}