The author of One Hundred Skirts is Eleanor Estes, a famous American children's literature writer, who once worked as a children's librarian. This book won the Newbery Children's Literature Award of 1945. It's a thin booklet with a simple story in it.

Wanda Petrovsky is a girl with a strange surname. All the girls like to play tricks on her because of her strange name and old skirt.

Until one day, Wanda suddenly claimed that there were 100 different skirts at home, which was followed by more ridicule. No one believed her at all, and everyone played a trick on her in this matter. Wanda endured silently.

One day, Wanda finally transferred to another school because she couldn't stand the ridicule. She left her 100 "skirt" to everyone.