The Hundred Dresses is about a young poor Polish girl, Wanda, living in the 1940s. Her family is treated badly because they are foreign, and she is mocked because she always wears the same dress everyday, since that's all she owns. The teasing gets so bad that her family moves away. Two girls in the class, Maddie and Peggy, feel especially bad about how they acted, so they try to contact her to say sorry and to tell her that her drawings (100 of them, each of a dress) won a prize. Unfortunately, Wanda has already left. Maddie is especially haunted by this; she wants to be able to make amends. Wanda forgives them in a letter that she sends to her teacher, but Maddie is changed by this experience and not likely to forget it anytime soon.
I really enjoyed this book. It shows how cruel people could be to people who are different without even realizing it. This book also showed how sometimes you don't get a chance to really make things alright. It was a very sweet but realistic story. There was also a lot of beautiful artwork in the book. Nearly every page had some bit of illustration in pencil, with simple colours. This is a great book for young girls to read.
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