One Hundred Dresses

"Wanda Petronski wore the same faded-blue dress to school every day. . . . One day when a classmate showed up wearing a bright new dress that was much admired, Wanda said suddenly, ‘I have a hundred dresses at home.’ That had started the teasing game of dresses. . . It was fun to stop Wanda on the way to school and ask, ‘How many dresses did you say you had?’ Wanda did have the hundred dresses, and this is the story of how Peggy and Maddie came to understand about them and what the game meant to Wanda." – back cover of The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Copyright 1944