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NANCY JOHNSON JAMES is a poet and the author of Brown: The Many
Shades of Love; Black: The Many Wonders of
DREAM A DRESS, DREAM A POEM
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 Pos-
sibility, published by Cameron Kids, and in her starred-reviewed picture book, Olu and Greta.
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DREAM A DRESS,
DREAM A POEM Dressmaker and Poet, Poet Myra Viola Wilds
WHAT DRE DREAM AMS S DO YOUU CARRY YO CARRY?? Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city, learned to read and 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. Written in Wilds’s style, this illustrated biography celebrates a talented poet who lived an extraordinary life. From dresses to poems, follow Myra as she finds there is more than one
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path to creativity.
Jacket illustrations © 2024 Diana Ejaita Jacket design by Melissa Nelson Greenberg Jacket © 2024 ABRAMS Printed in China
US $18.99 / CAN $23.99 / UK £13.99 ISBN 978-1-951836-53-5
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