The Hundred Dresses [SEP] illustrator
The Hundred Dresses
The Hundred Dresses is a 1944 children's book by Eleanor Estes, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. In the book, a young Polish girl named Wanda Petronski goes to a school in an American town, in Connecticut, where the other children see her as "different" and mock her.
Plot.
The book centers on Wanda Petronski, a poor and friendless Polish-American girl. Her teacher, outwardly kind, puts her in the worst seat in the classroom and she does not say anything
(front cover illustrator).
- 1986, UK, Methuen, , Pub date Nov 1986, mass market paperback.
- 1987, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Apr 1987, mass market paperback.
- 1990, USA, Bantam Books, , Pub date Nov 1990, mass market paperback. Tom Canty (front cover illustrator).
- 1994, USA, Bantam, , Pub date Sep 1994, hardcover. Gary A. Lippincott (illustrator).
- 1997, USA, Easton