About this product Product Key Features Book Title Hundred Dresses Number of Pages 88 Pages Language English Publication Year 1944 Topic Classics, General, Social Themes / Friendship, People Places / United States / General Illustrator Yes, Slobodkin, Louis Genre Juvenile Fiction Author Helena Estes, Eleanor Estes Format Hardcover Dimensions Item Height 0.5 in Item Weight 10.2 Oz Item Length 8.4 in Item Width 6.5 in Additional Product Features Synopsis Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again.", Wanda Petronski, a little Polish girl in an American school, is laughed at because she always wears a faded blue dress, until her classmates learn a lesson. Item description from the seller id="desc_ifr" title="Seller's description of item" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin" height="138px" width="100%" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" src="https://itm.ebaydesc.com/itmdesc/296857353628?t=0 category=261186 seller=angeldragonr excSoj=1 ver=0 excTrk=1 lsite=0 ittenable=true domain=ebay.com descgauge=1 cspheader=1 oneClk=2 secureDesc=1" loading="lazy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial;"