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By Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

ISBN-10: 0152052607

ISBN-13: 9780152052607

Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses received a Newbery Honor in 1945 and hasn't ever been out of print because. on the middle of the tale is Wanda Petronski, a Polish lady in a Connecticut tuition who's ridiculed through her classmates for donning an analogous light blue gown each day. Wanda claims she has 100 clothes at domestic, yet we all know she doesn’t and bullies her mercilessly. the category feels poor while Wanda is pulled out of the college, yet by way of that point it’s too past due for apologies. Maddie, one in all Wanda’s classmates, eventually comes to a decision that she is “never going to face via and say not anything again.” This robust, undying tale has been reissued in paperback with a brand new letter from the author’s daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin’s unique paintings in superbly restored colour.

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She must everybody must As Wanda feel if anything alarmed twisted into the vaguest feel happy on such happy too because a day. joined the outside fringe of stood up too and went over close to good look at Cecile's Wanda, and more group and "Isn't all girls dress herself. girls, Peggy Maddie to get a She forgot about kept coming up, enlarging the exclaiming about Cecile's new dress. " said one. It "Yeah, new it. I have a new blue dress, but it's not as pretty as that," said another. " 25 The Hundred Dresses Everyone was talking to everybody anything to Wanda, but there she was, crowd.

Otherwise they were not certain they could find Wanda's house. At and panting, they rounded the top of the last, hill. puffing The first 53 house, that old rickety one, belonged to old son. Peggy and Maddie Somebody said man. Others hurried past once that old it Sven- almost on tiptoe. man Svenson had "Nonsense! He's an old said man shot a o-ood-for- nothine. " But, false or true, the they rounded the corner. man Svenson old to against the house, Even his doo- at the girls girls It breathed more freely was too cold and drizzly for be in his customary chair chewing and was nowhere in sight from wherever he might pointing to coops a little at the side of it.

Really all right, just as she al- really all right. k. / m UP ON BOGGINS HEIGHTS THE two street that girls toward Boggins Heights, the part of town wore such a vember afternoon, "Well, hurried out of the building, up the forbidding drizzly, at least," said air on this kind of a No- damp, and dismal. Peggy gruffly, ''I never did call The Hundred Dresses her a foreigner or make fun she had the sense to anyway. how I And she can draw! " nothmg. All she hoped was Wanda. that Just so she'd be able to tell her they were sorry they had how I know we were makmg thought she was too dumb.

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