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The Hundred Dresses

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.Peggy and Maddy are the two girls who often make fun of her by asking her the number of dresses she had.


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