How long does it take to read The Hundred Dresses?
Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin, Jim Stelljes, Estes
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin, Jim Stelljes, Estes takes about 1 hour 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 29 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1944. 81 pages, about 22,275 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Wanda wore the same faded blue dress to school every day. It was always clean but sometimes it looked as though it had been washed and never ironed. Peggy started the game of the dresses when suddenly one day Wanda said, "I have a hundred dresses at home — all lined up in my closet." After that it was fun to stop Wanda on the way to school and ask, "How many dresses did you say you have?" "A hundred," she would answer. Then everyone laughed and Wanda's lips would tight- en as she walked off with one shoulder hunched up in a way none of the girls understood. Wanda did have the hundred dresses, and this is the story of how Peggy and Maddie came to under- stand about them and about what their game had meant to Wanda. This tender and lovely story is illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1944. His illustrations in full color brilliantly convey the feeling and the overtones of the story.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile works, Juvenile fiction, Juvenile audience, friendship, School fiction
