The Hundred Dresses by Estes, Eleanor

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.

Author: Eleanor Estes
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.59h x 6.86w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780152051709
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 42 / Hundred Dresses


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2005 pg. 50
PW Notes and Reprints 07/19/2004 pg. 164
Publishers Weekly 07/19/2004