The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes

Jun 2014 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.

Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again."

A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.

Ratings and reviews

What a wonderful book itThis shows the love of somebody that was bullied. How was that act of kindness from one person can you turn the whole thing around by a kind letter of love, Where mercy is shown mercy is given. Great read recommended hundred percent.

it is just the best inspiration story which can really change our thinking and behaviour really I felt very upset when Wanda left her school , I thought thAt she will return but I was wrong.....

Loved & hated as a Child along with "King John", a Mother Goose poem. PS I think Mother...was a sadist!

About the author

Eleanor Estes (1906-1988) grew up in West Haven, Connecticut, which she renamed Cranbury for her classic stories about the Moffat and Pye families. A children’s librarian for many years, she launched her writing career with the publication of The Moffats in 1941. Two of her outstanding books about the Moffats—Rufus M. and The Middle Moffat—were awarded Newbery Honors, as was her short novel The Hundred Dresses. She won the Newbery Medal for Ginger Pye.