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The Hundred Dresses
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The Hundred Dresses Hardcover - 2004

by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)

A restored edition of a classic, award-winning book about prejudice and understanding.


Summary

Wanda Petronski, a little Polish girl in an American school, is laughed at because she always wears a faded blue dress, until her classmates learn a lesson. “Sensitive, intuitive, restrained.”--Saturday Review

From the publisher

A 1945 Newbery Honor Book Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Details

  • Title The Hundred Dresses
  • Author Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, New York
  • Date 2004-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780152051709 / 0152051708
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.59 x 6.86 x 0.53 in (21.82 x 17.42 x 1.35 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 11 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 6
  • Reading level 870
  • Themes
    • Catalog Heading: Classics
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Polish Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003057037
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

"Will take its place with the books that endure."--Saturday Review

"Written with rare intuition and pictured with warm sympathy and charm."--The Horn Book

"No young person . . . will ever forget it."--Book Week

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 07/19/2004, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 07/19/2004, Page 164
  • School Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 50
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