Eloise lives in the plaza hotel in New York, looked after by her nanny she sends everyone crazy with her love of ‘helping’ around the place whether it’s sorting parcels or lending a hand in the kitchen. The fact is Eloise creates chaos wherever she goes but everyone forgives her! Lifting the flaps adds to the fun of this story about a classic heroine with some delightfully bad habits!
Life is busy at the Plaza Hotel, so it's a good thing that Eloise is around to lend a hand. The lift-the-flap of this book format adds to the fun, providing 'before and after' images of the hotel scenes as they receive their Eloise treatment.
Kay Thompson is slender, sleek and unbelievably versatile. She is a dancer, a singer, a pianist, a composer, a choreographer, and now an author. As many thousands of Americans know, she created a night-club act that can only be described as indescribable. The critic from Variety tried to pin it down more concisely, "Her act is paced like a North Atlantic gale," he began bravely, but then threw in the sponge. "Miss Thompson is more than an act," he said finally. "She's an experience."