The Hundred Dresses

Name: The Hundred Dresses
Rating: 4.653846263885498 (52 reviews)

Eleanor Estes

Jun 2014 · HarperCollins

4.7

52 reviews

Ebook

Pages

Eligible

Ratings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More

Switch to the audiobook

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

4.7

52 reviews

Sherry Koonce

November 4, 2015

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.

2 people found this review helpful

Debabrata Das

May 8, 2020

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.....

CATHERINE ALEXANDRA SOTNICK

February 24, 2020

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.

Rate this ebook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets

Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.

Laptops and computers

You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.

eReaders and other devices

To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.

Report illegal content