TODAY, Monday, Wanda Petronski was not in her seat.
An edition of The Hundred Dresses
(1944)
The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin, Jim Stelljes, Louis Slobodkin, and Estes
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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 Newbery Honor Book and a beloved classic for more than sixty years, offers readers of all ages a timeless message of compassion and understanding.
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Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile audience, friendship, School fiction, Poles in the United States, social isolation, bullying, fashion design, immigrants, discrimination, Polish-Americans, children's book, award winning books, classic literature, Polish Americans, Teasing, Schools, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Polish americans, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Novela, Polaco-americanos, Spanish language materials, Amistad, Ficción juvenil, award:Newbery_award, lexile:870, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:7, age:max:10, grade:min:1, grade:max:4People
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The Hundred Dresses
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Table of Contents
Wanda
The Dresses Game
A Bright Blue Day
The Contest
The Hundred Dresses
Up on Boggins Heights
The Letter to Room 13
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Wanda wore the same faded blue dress to school every day. It was always clean but sometimes it looked as though it had been washed and never ironed. Peggy started the game of the dresses when suddenly one day Wanda said, "I have a hundred dresses at home — all lined up in my closet." After that it was fun to stop Wanda on the way to school and ask, "How many dresses did you say you have?" "A hundred," she would answer. Then everyone laughed and Wanda's lips would tight- en as she walked off with one shoulder hunched up in a way none of the girls understood. Wanda did have the hundred dresses, and this is the story of how Peggy and Maddie came to under- stand about them and about what their game had meant to Wanda.
This tender and lovely story is illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1944. His illustrations in full color brilliantly convey the feeling and the overtones of the story.
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