Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214293 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Every child should read this book
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.

As good as I remembered it....
I remember this book as one of my favorites as a young girl and young reader. I recently purchased it for my goddaughter's 7th birthday - she carried the book under her arm all evening and was read aloud to by various grown ups at the party. The story teaches a valuable lesson about how to be a real friend - a lesson which is valuable to both children and adults.

One of the best children's clssics of all times!
Wanda, a Polish immigrant, wants nothing more than to be liked and accepted in a strange country. That's why she tells her classmates tales of her "hundred dresses, all lined up in a row in my closet." Her classmates think this is hilarious, and are frequently asking her about her hundred dresses. Only when she is gone do they realize how much damage they actually did... Though it contains a simple plot, this book is excellent, and it contains a valuable lesson for all of us.