nerd teacher [books] reviewed The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Beautifully illustrated.
3 stars
This book is gorgeous. The illustrations are pencil sketches without a lot of definition. They utilise colour in ways to make it stand out, which makes them more interesting. Seriously, they're gorgeous.
The main theme of the book deals with bullying someone for being different (culture, class). The book focuses on the bullied who is the daughter of a Polish immigrant (it's not clear whether she's an immigrant herself), a bysander, and a bully. In order to better protect his children, the father removes the kids from the school and goes to a big city believing it to be more diverse and easier for his children to fit into without being called slurs and having their name made fun of.
A few issues I have with this is that the only person who really learns anything is the bystander. The bully doesn't really seem to learn a lesson and acts …
This book is gorgeous. The illustrations are pencil sketches without a lot of definition. They utilise colour in ways to make it stand out, which makes them more interesting. Seriously, they're gorgeous.
The main theme of the book deals with bullying someone for being different (culture, class). The book focuses on the bullied who is the daughter of a Polish immigrant (it's not clear whether she's an immigrant herself), a bysander, and a bully. In order to better protect his children, the father removes the kids from the school and goes to a big city believing it to be more diverse and easier for his children to fit into without being called slurs and having their name made fun of.
A few issues I have with this is that the only person who really learns anything is the bystander. The bully doesn't really seem to learn a lesson and acts as if she did nothing wrong. There's also the ending where you find that the Polish girl 'forgave' them for treating her cruelly (while the bully also says that she wouldn't have been able to succeed at something without her making fun of her).
