The Hundred Dresses.(A Second Look)

The Horn Book Magazine | November 1, 2004| | Copyright

Mean girls--think of Laura Ingalls's nemesis Nellie Oleson or Harriet the Spy's Marion Hawthorne--abound in children's literature. While we can shudder at their nastiness and rejoice in their comeuppance, rarely are we allowed the chance to see things from their point of view.

But Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses (1944), recently reissued by Harcourt with an introduction by the author's daughter, Helena Estes, is the story of a mean girl--or, more precisely, a mean girl's best friend, all the more culpable for her self-perception. Peggy and her acolyte Maddie, ...

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