W. Ross Macdonald School Library

The Hundred Dresses /

Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988, author.

The Hundred Dresses / by Eleanor Estes ; illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. - Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - New York : Scholastic, 1973, c1944. - 78 pages : comb binding, illustrations ; 38 cm

This large print book has been produced for print impaired students by the Resource Services Library, W. Ross Macdonald School, 350 Brant Avenue, Brantford Ontario, N3T 3J9. It may be returned to the Resource Services Library by mail, at no cost, if marked “Materials for the blind - post-free”.



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


This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.



Newbery Honor, 1945.

0590404008


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