The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes (Author) Louis Slobodkin (Illustrator)
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.
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Publishers Weekly
Classic titles return in time for the gift-giving season. For a new generation of readers, Eleanor Estes's long-treasured title, The Hundred Dresses (1944), illus. by Louis Slobodkin, appears in its 60th anniversary finery with newly "restored color" in the artwork. Wanda faces mockery at school, both because of her "funny" last name (Petron-ski) and her claims that she has 100 dresses at home even though she wears the same one to school each day. Copyright 2004 Publishers Weekly Used with permission.
Review quotes
"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
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780152052607
Lexile Measure
830
Guided Reading Level
P
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
September 01, 2004
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV007000 - Juvenile Fiction | Classics
JUV039120 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
JUV007000 - Juvenile Fiction | Classics
JUV039120 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Polish Americans
Polish Americans
Newbery Honor Book
