The hundred dresses

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Title:

The hundred dresses

Author:

Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988.

ISBN:

9780788795190

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p1998, c1944.

Physical Description:

1 sound disc (1 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

"A Newbery Honor Book."--Container.

Compact discs.

Subject Term:

Polish Americans -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Poor families -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Moore, Christina

Local Subject:

Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary:

A little Polish immigrant girl struuggles to fit in with her classmates and tells them of her hundred dresses at home despite the fact she only wears the faded blue one to school.

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Wanda Petronski is different from all the other girls in Room 13. Every day she wears the same faded blue dress to school, and every day she tells about her hundred dresses at home. Her classmates joke about her imaginary clothes - until they learn the wonderful secret of the dresses.

Author Notes

Eleanor Estes was born in West Haven, Connecticut on May 9, 1906. She graduated from the Pratt Institute Library School and worked as a children's librarian in branches of the New York Public Library system. Her first book, The Moffats, was published in 1941. Her other works include The Hundred Dresses and Ginger Pye, which won a John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished children's book in 1952. She also wrote a single adult novel entitled The Echoing Green. She died of complications following a stroke on July 15, 1988 at the age of 82.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-6-Friendship, peer pressure, regret, and courage are all issues that are integral to this Newbery Honor book by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt, 1944). Wanda Petronski tells classmates she has a hundred dresses of all varieties in her closet at home. So why does she always wear the same old worn dress to school? The teasing that follows seems harmless, but it's not. This book explores the hurt that comes from thoughtless words, and offers a painful, but heart-warming lesson in forgiveness. Christina Moore reads the unabridged story with warmth and expression. The author's carefully chosen words stand on their own without the distraction of sound effects or music. This is a well-done production of an exceptional book that has earned its place as a childhood classic.-Teresa Bateman, Brigadoon Elementary School, Federal Way, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Classic titles return in time for the gift-giving season. For a new generation of readers, Eleanor Estes's long-treasured title, The Hundred Dresses (1944), illus. by Louis Slobodkin, appears in its 60th anniversary finery with newly "restored color" in the artwork. Wanda faces mockery at school, both because of her "funny" last name (Petron-ski) and her claims that she has 100 dresses at home even though she wears the same one to school each day. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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