{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What dreams do you carry? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Abrams Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42662329614397,"sku":"9781951836535","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781951836535_p0.jpg?v=1771581885","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781951836535","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}