Absolutely Essential Eloise (50th Anniversary Edition) - Hardcover

Kay Thompson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416916814 ISBN 13: 9781416916819

Publisher: Pocket Childrens Books H/B, 2005

Synopsis

Eloise has sold more than two million copies and has made an indelible mark on American culture. Eloise: The Absolutely Essential Edition has every word and drawing from the original, plus a 16-page Eloise scrapbook, illustrated with never-before-seen photos, memorabilia, and sketches. Two-color illustrations. Illustrator tour.

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Review:

Maurice Sendak calls Eloise a "brazen, loose-limbed little monster." Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen finds her pathetic and lonely. Eloise gave Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner "permission to rebel." Anyone who has been introduced to the eccentric 6-year-old who spends her days at large in New York's Plaza Hotel pouring water down the mail chute and managing her self-imposed responsibilities is fascinated, fascinated, fascinated. She is the only girl we know who feeds her turtle raisins and braids his ears, wears Kleenex boxes on her head (they make very good hats), and gets away with everything. Even if you have seven copies of the original Eloise, you may want to add The Absolutely Essential Eloise to your collection. In addition to the full splendor of the original 65-page Eloise story, this special edition includes an 18-page scrapbook, written by Marie Brenner, with "photographs of Miss Kay Thompson when she was young and fabulous and rawther like Eloise" and never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia, and sketches and stories from illustrator Hilary Knight. Anyone who adores Eloise and is intrigued by her talented creators should have this book within easy reach. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1955, renewed 1983 by Kay Thompson. Scrapbook text copyright 1999 by Marie Brenner. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson

From the Inside Flap:

If you love love love ELOISE (who doesn't?) and you cawn't cawn't cawn't get enough of her (who can?) then you simply MUST have this absolutely enormous book It has everything Eloise not just The Absolutely Essential and jolie Paris and fa la la la la Christmastime and dear gray Moscow but a lovely new dustjacket by Mr. Knight Even if you have all the Eloise books you need this one too So charge it please and THANK YOU VERY MUCH

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Childrens Books H/B
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1416916814
• ISBN 13: 9781416916819
• Binding: Hardcover