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The Hundred Dresses Paperback - 2004

by Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)

The Newbery Honor-winning book about prejudice and understanding is now available in this restored edition that recaptures the vivid artwork of Slobodkin. Includes a letter to readers from the author's daughter that relates the true story behind the book.


Summary

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 in paperback 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.

From the publisher

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."

A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.

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  • Title The Hundred Dresses
  • Author Eleanor Estes; Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780152052607 / 0152052607
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 6.5 x 0.5 in (21.08 x 16.51 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 06 to 09 years
  • Grade levels 1 - 4
  • 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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