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Hundreds Of Reasons To Like 100 Dresses Hundreds of Reasons to Like 100 Dresses “100 Dresses” by Eleanor Estes Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin Wanda Petroski is a polish immigrant child living in a small town who, like many immigrant children, has not fully mastered the English language. This makes her especially vulnerable as prey to the stereotypical popular schoolyard bully. The way she handles this and other cultural dilemmas she faces leaves the reader affected long after they have finished reading this thought provoking work from Eleanor Estes. Peggy is Wanda’s adversary. She is bright, popular, has money, and comes from a family that is common to the small town they live in. She sees Wanda as beneath her not only because of her odd sounding name, but also because Wanda wears the same dingy blue dress to school every day. When Wanda makes the supposed mistake of telling what the children perceive as a tall tale about having100 dresses at home in her closet, Peggy pounces on the opportunity to poke fun at her. Eventually Wanda’s poverty stricken family moves to a larger city where they will have more prospects. It is revealed that, although not in the way they had imagined, Wanda really did have 100 dresses. The children 100, dresses, wanda, story, children, because, work, estes, characters, while, reader, read, girl, way, wanda’s, readers, perceive, one, message, fun, enjoy, although, about, young, town, tolerance, through, somewhat, small, slobodkin, same, really, poverty, popular, petroski, peggy