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The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes ; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcout, 2004Description: 80 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0152051708
  • 9780152051709
  • 9780152052607
  • 0152052607
  • 9780812455274
  • 0812455274
  • 0606329358
  • 9780606329354
  • 9781417630745
  • 1417630744
  • 9781415556078
  • 1415556075
Other title:
  • 100 dresses
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Wanda -- The Dresses Game -- A Bright Blue Day -- The Contest -- The Hundred Dresses -- Up on Boggins Heights -- The Letter to Room 13.
Awards:
  • Newbery Honor Book, 1945
Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.Summary: "Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game , but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to school one day that her classmates learn the truth about the hundred dresses -- and Maddie and Peggy learn the meaning of kindness and generosity of spirit. Eleanor Estes's heartfelt story, a Newberry Honor Book and a beloved classic for more than sixty years, offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding"--Back cover
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's Fiction ESTES ELEANOR Checked out 05/28/2024 33111009864485
Total holds: 0

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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.

Ages 6 to 10.

In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.

"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game , but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to school one day that her classmates learn the truth about the hundred dresses -- and Maddie and Peggy learn the meaning of kindness and generosity of spirit. Eleanor Estes's heartfelt story, a Newberry Honor Book and a beloved classic for more than sixty years, offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding"--Back cover

Wanda -- The Dresses Game -- A Bright Blue Day -- The Contest -- The Hundred Dresses -- Up on Boggins Heights -- The Letter to Room 13.

Accelerated Reader MG 5.4 1.0 42.

Newbery Honor Book, 1945

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