She also gets to help, as a not necessarily welcome volunteer, in the running of the hotel, adjusting thermostats, assisting the busboys and waiters and switchboard operators and generally thrusting herself underfoot. While low on family, she gets to meetĪ lot of new people as she careers through the corridors (as noisily as possible) and gate-crashes weddings and receptions and what appear to be, in Hilary Knight's brilliant illustrations, diplomatic functions. Girls - and aspiring rotten little girls - have provided me with some new ideas for torturing grown-ups, but she would also, much worse, have given me notions far above my small-town, middle-class station.Įloise (born circa 1949, first published in 1955) is the 6-year-old hellion who lives in the Plaza Hotel, together with her nameless and infinitely patient English nanny, her pug, Weenie, and her turtle, Skipperdee. Not only would that role model for rotten little Hank God no one ever gave me Kay Thompson's ''Eloise'' when I was a child. Kay Thompson's heroine offers timeless lessons on how to have fun and torture grown-ups.
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