The Hundred Dresses (Paperback)

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By Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)
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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.

About the Author


Eleanor Estes (1906-1988) grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, which she renamed Cranbury for her classic stories about the Moffat and Pye families. A children’s librarian for many years, she launched her writing career with the publication of The Moffats in 1941. Two of her outstanding books about the Moffats—Rufus M. and The Middle Moffat—were awarded Newbery Honors, as was her short novel The Hundred Dresses. She won the Newbery Medal for Ginger Pye.
 

Praise For…


"Sensitive, intuitive, restrained . . . 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 —



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Product Details
ISBN: 9780152052607
ISBN-10: 0152052607
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication Date: September 1st, 2004
Pages: 96
Language: English