Eloise book illustration

The other night a friend who was recuperating from an injury asked us to tell him a story as he fell asleep. A story, we wondered, h-mm-mm. Why not read a kid's book for this exhausted, wounded grown-up. Looking through our library, an ancient copy of Kay Thompson's Eloise jumped into our hands. As we read it aloud, we marveled at the precocious little girl on the loose in the great hotel. We'd totally forgotten the story: a self-possessed kid surviving in the face of a wealthy mom who…

First edition of the third book in the wonderfully illustrated Eloise series. Slim folio, original pictorial red boards, illustrated

written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.

Eloise Kay Thompson ~ drawings by Hillary Knight Simon & Schuster ~ 1955 I've been hesitant to write of these books because I feel as i...

Has there ever been a bad girl with a better pedigree than Eloise? Created by a Hollywood musical star and featuring a six your old free spirit who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York with her bee…

Eloise, the mischievous six-year-old who lived at the Plaza Hotel in Kay Thompson's fiction, routinely challenged the imagination of ro...