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.
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