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Title: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin ISBN: 0-15-642350-2 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 17 April, 1974 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (64 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It was fun to read!
Comment: The Hundred Dresses is about a girl named Wanda Protronski. Wanda is poor and has no mother. She lives up on Boggins Heights. Some girls make fun of her. The name of the mean girl that teases Wanda is Peggy. Peggy is pretty, neat, and very popular. Her best friend is Maddie. Maddie is messy, poor, and sort of popular. Almost all of her clothes are hand-me-down. Classroom 13 has a drawing contest and Wanda wins. Everyone thought that Peggy was going to win. Wanda leaves town and moves to the city. Peggy and Maddie try to get her to come back. This took place at the school's playground, classroom 13, and in Boggins Heights. I thought this was a wonderful book because it tells why you should be nice to people and not tease them. I recommend this book for 3rd-5th graders because it is a little to hard for lower grades and too easy for higher grades.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's a good reminder to be nice to others.
Comment: The setting of the book took place up in Boggins Heights and in a school. The main characters in the book, The Hundred Dresses, were Peggy, Maddie, and Wanda. The book was about a girl named Wanda who was a new kid in school. She told girls like Maddie and Peggy that she had one hundred dresses. No one believed her. All they did was tease her. When Wanda brought in her dresses, everybody discovered she had drawn one hundred of them. Wanda's family left the school because everybody was teasing her.
I think the book was written to tell the reader not to tease someone. I didn't like it when kids teased me because it seemed like no one liked me. I liked the book because it has a lot of drama in it. It had sad moments like when Wanda left the school, serious moments when Peggy and Maddie were looking for Wanda, and happy moments like Wanda giving away two of her dresses.
I am glad my teacher made me read the book. It is a good reminder (to boys and girls), to be nice to others.
Rating: 5
Summary: Every child should read this book
Comment: My eight-year old son was given 'The Hundred Dresses' as a vacation book report assignment. Wanda Petronski was laughed at at school for her name, for her faded blue dress that didn't hang right and for offsetting her poverty by tales of her hundred dresses at home. But her dress was always clean, washed daily herself because she had no mother and often it would not be dry by next morning. There was a drawing competition and Wanda submitted 100 drawings of her dresses and she won the girls' prize. But by the time of the announcement of the winners Wanda had been moved to the city because of the teasing. Some deep soul searching was triggered in a concerned classmate whose life was changed for ever as she realized that her passive role had contributed to Wanda's fate. Every child should write a report on this book and its deeper meaning.
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Title: A Guide for Using The Hundred Dresses in the Classroom by Cheryl Russell ISBN: 157690136X Publisher: Teacher Created Materials Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson, Garth Williams ISBN: 0064402509 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 15 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Moffats by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin ISBN: 0152025413 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan ISBN: 0064402053 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 04 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Kimberly Bulcken Root ISBN: 0805060731 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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