Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) by James, Nancy Johnson
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) by James, Nancy Johnson

Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)

A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of...
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SKU: 9781951836535
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Author: Nancy Johnson James
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) by James, Nancy Johnson

Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)

$43.00
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) by James, Nancy Johnson

Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)

$43.00
Author: Nancy Johnson James
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds, written by the author of Brown: The Many Shades of Love

What 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 Thoughts of Idle Hours, published in 1915.

Written 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.

Author: Nancy Johnson James
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/14/2025
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781951836535
Audience: Ages 4-8

About the Author
Nancy Johnson James is a poet and the author of Brown: The Many Shades of Love; Black: The Many Wonders of My World; and Blue: The Many Ways I Feel in The Colors of My Life series. Her family is from the same Kentucky town that Wilds was from. She lives in Maryland. Diana Ejaita is an illustrator and textile designer based in Berlin. Her work can be found in Let: A Poem About Wonder and Possibility, published by Cameron Kids, and in her starred-reviewed picture book, Olu and Greta.
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