Louis Slobodkin

Eleanor Estes

"I've got a hundred dresses."
Nobody can believe it—
Wanda wears the same old blue
dress every day. ' 'A hundred
dresses— all lined up!"
If Wanda really does have a
hundred dresses, she's
certainly keeping them hidden .
but why?
--back cover

The Hundred Dresses

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

Elizabeth McInerney 

A story every young girl should read. ❤️

Hundred Dresses

B. K.

A simple story about regret, loneliness, and compassion, with a naively optimistic ending. Sometimes you're the ostracized, sometimes the bully; sometimes you never get the chance to apologize for childhood wrongs and can only imagine, like Maddie does, scenarios in which you behaved as your ideal self instead.

Lorien O'Brien

This is a beautiful and terribly sad story. That's all I have to say about it.

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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.
--front flap

Su Ah Lee

The Hundred Dresses

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