In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things—a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word—that help her brilliant imagination to truly see the wide world. With Dickinson's own poetry woven throughout, this lyrical biography for readers 6 and up speaks of the power we have to transform ourselves and to reach one another when we speak from the soul. Folksy and filled with patterns and details, Becca Stadtlander's gouache and watercolor illustrations capture Emily's straitlaced life but also her vivid fantasy world.