The Hundred Dresses, Paperback/Eleanor Estes
Descriere
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." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.
Despre autor
Eleanor Estes a fost o scriitoare americană de literatură pentru copii și bibliotecară. Cartea sa Ginger Pye, pentru care a creat și ilustrații, a câștigat Medalia Newbery. Trei dintre cărțile ei au fost nominalizate la Medalia Newbery, iar una a primit Premiul Lewis Carroll. Cărțile lui Estes s-au bazat pe viața sa în micul oraș Connecticut la începutul anilor 1900.
