One hundred dresses
14.99 €
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One hundred dresses
14.99 €
Wanda goes to school in the same blue dress - washed and molted, although, according to her, at home she has a hundred beautiful dresses, "a whole closet." Peggy and her classmates don’t believe Wanda and start teasing her. Lena, Peggy’s best friend, is not involved in the fun, but is silently present. But inside, Lina suffers from the fact that she does not find the courage to openly protect Wanda. It is only after Wanda’s sudden departure that classmates learn the truth about a hundred dresses, and Lena and Peggy clearly understand what kindness and generosity of the soul are.
Elinor Estes (1906-1988) has been reading children in different countries for 80 years. It evokes a lively response in their hearts, including because it is based on real events from the childhood of the writer herself. In her class, she studied with a girl who was teased because of a single dress and an unusual Polish name. In the small town of West Haven, Connecticut, where the future writer grew up and where the story takes place, Polish names were rare. And then that girl moved to New York — it happened suddenly, in the middle of the school year, and Elinor never had time to apologize to her. For many years she was tormented by an enduring sense of guilt. After all, she knew firsthand what poverty and cold in the house and how to wear clothes behind her older sister. But is poverty a reason to tease a person? Can you play with the feelings of people who are different from you? Elinor kept looking for answers to these questions, and one day she realized she needed to write about everything that had happened. Thus was born the story “One Hundred Dresses”, which was first published in 1944 and soon received the honorary diploma of Newbury.
The Russian edition comes with restored original illustrations by Caldecott medal winner Louis Slobodkin (1903–1975). They create a very precise mood for this poignant book on compassion and understanding that has become a classic.
The book will be interesting for children of primary school age.
Elinor Estes (1906-1988) has been reading children in different countries for 80 years. It evokes a lively response in their hearts, including because it is based on real events from the childhood of the writer herself. In her class, she studied with a girl who was teased because of a single dress and an unusual Polish name. In the small town of West Haven, Connecticut, where the future writer grew up and where the story takes place, Polish names were rare. And then that girl moved to New York — it happened suddenly, in the middle of the school year, and Elinor never had time to apologize to her. For many years she was tormented by an enduring sense of guilt. After all, she knew firsthand what poverty and cold in the house and how to wear clothes behind her older sister. But is poverty a reason to tease a person? Can you play with the feelings of people who are different from you? Elinor kept looking for answers to these questions, and one day she realized she needed to write about everything that had happened. Thus was born the story “One Hundred Dresses”, which was first published in 1944 and soon received the honorary diploma of Newbury.
The Russian edition comes with restored original illustrations by Caldecott medal winner Louis Slobodkin (1903–1975). They create a very precise mood for this poignant book on compassion and understanding that has become a classic.
The book will be interesting for children of primary school age.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series True stories