Eleanor Estes

Louis Slobodkin

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.
--back cover

The Hundred Dresses

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The Space Ship in the Park

Florence Slobodkin

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Too Many Mittens / A Good Place to Hide / The Little Mermaid Who Could Not Sing

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Magic Michael

The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree

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Three-Seated Space Ship

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Round Trip Space Ship

Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal

Principles and Practice

Sculpture

A little girl tries all sorts of places to hide, but a neighbor finds her behind a tree, the mailman finds her behind the rose bush, and Rover finds her in his doghouse.

A Good Place to Hide

When a junior scientist explorer from the planet of Martinea crashlands on Eddie's grandmother's farm, Eddie spends his summer searching for a way for Marty to get back home again.

The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree

A poor little Polish girl learns to write names and becomes someone special to her family and school friends.

Weekly Reader Children's Book Club Presents Too Many Mittens

Because the whole neighborhood knows the twin boys have lost a red mitten, whenever one is found it is taken to their house, until soon the twins must start a service to return surplus red mittens to their proper owners.

Too Many Mittens

Strayed circus elephant, painted red, white and blue, creates a disturbance.

Circus, April 1st

In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

Louis Slobodkin

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