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The Hundred Dresses is a 1944 children's book by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. In the book, a young Polish girl named Wanda Petronski goes to a school in an American town, in Connecticut, where the other children see her as "different" and mock her. Description

The Hundred Dresses is a paperback book that measures 6.5 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches in product dimensions. Plot

The book focuses on Wanda Petronski, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl. Her teacher, Ms. Marikko welcomes Wanda with open arms and falls in love with the young girl's personality, shy, quiet but sweet. The first day of school, Ms. Marikko does a seating chart and thinks it is a good idea to put Wanda at a table with three other girls, Annie, Raven and Jessica. Little does she know that was one of the worst things she did for Wanda. The girls at the table start to tease her day after day. One day, after Wanda's classmates laugh at her funny last name and the faded blue cut out dress she wears to school every day, Wanda claims to own one hundred dresses, all lined up in her closet at her torn-down house. This outrageous and obvious lie becomes a game, as the girls in her class corner her every day before school, demanding that she describe all of her dresses for them. Wanda becomes sick and tired of these girls that she decided to prove them wrong. Her father, Mr. Petronski, decides that she must leave that school because he believes these girls are a danger to Wanda.

The teacher holds a art contest in which the class is supposed to Wanda enters and submits one hundred beautiful designs. Her classmates are in awe of her talent and realize that these were her hundred dresses.The students who teased her feel remorse and want her to know this, but they are not sure how. They decide to write her a kind letter and send it to her old address, hoping the post office can forward it. Unfortunately, she has already moved away and does not realize she won the contest.[1] Reception

It was a 1945 Newbery Honor book.[2] A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California.[3] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."[4] Author's Description

For more than 50 years, Eleanor Estes' story of kindness, compassion, and standing up for what is right has resonated with young readers. The author captures the deeply felt moral dilemmas of childhood, without simplification, understanding that such personal standoffs can be equally poignant for the teased or the tormentor. Wispy, evocative, color sketches by Caldecott Medalist Louis Slobodkin echo the often wistful tone of this time-proven classic.[5] References

Kathleen T. Horning, Association for Library Service to Children, The Newbery & Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, Chicago: American Library Association, 2009, ISBN 9780838997178, p. 68. American Library Association. "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". Retrieved January 12, 2015. Fisher, Douglas et al. (2004). "Interactive Read-Alouds: Is There a Common Set of Implementation Practices?" (PDF). The Reading Teacher 58 (1): 8–17. doi:10.1598/RT.58.1.1. Retrieved August 22, 2012. National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Retrieved August 22, 2012. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/hundred-dresses#cart/cleanup