Eloise In Paris

Kay Thompson, illustrated by Hilary Knight

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Obnoxious, irresistible Eloise has been called to Paris from the Plaza Hotel, where she lives, by her mother, who “has a charge account at Neiman-Marcus”.  “If you are going to Paris France you have to turn into French and absolutely go wild and put adhesive tape on you and fall down a lot and sklathe the window and stretch into the curtain and grab Nanny’s ankle and be dragged around”.  Eloise, you see, is excited.  She is excited most of the time.

And she’s a girl with plenty of ideas... Going through passport control, for example, “I always tie my bottle caps around my chest and conceal these grape seeds inside of this Band-Aid and push it down into the left side of my leg into the lower part of my sock near the ankle bone on the inside and hide my bubble gum where they absolutely never discover it.”

The temptation is just to go on quoting.  At Maxim’s: “You have to regardez le menu for quite a while.  It is rawther fluzzery... My mother knows Maxim.”

Eloise is (thankfully!) unique.  So is Kay Thompson’s language, and so are Hilary Knight’s wonderful pictures.  Eloise’s adventures in Paris are as hilarious as those at the New York Plaza. - review by Johnny de Falbe

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