Eloise (Eloise Series)

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Summary: Oooooooooooooooooooo I absolutely love Eloise
Review: Eloise lives with her nanny, dog, and turtle in The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She knows that the modern six-year-old has to keep moving in order to get the full potential for fun each day from a busy hotel . . . especially when your mother knows The Owner. Between investigating, racing, and helping, she covers The Plaza from top to bottom. And if you visit the hotel, you'll see her picture just off the lobby on the 58th Street side.

Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute.

To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. Eloise was one of her picks.

Our daughter's mother and I often have meetings in The Plaza, and sometimes stay overnight there. On one trip, we bought this book in the gift shop and had Eloise sign it for our daughter before we left. Eloise wrote, "Sorry I missed you Hope to see you next trip Love, Eloise" Every time we went to New York with our daughter when she was six, we looked for Eloise but we kept missing her. It was lucky that her picture was always there to greet us.

After our daughter could read, we would encourage her to read this book while we were away at The Plaza. In that way, she could feel like she was with us.

Then when we went on trips, we would ask her what she would like to do in the hotel. If she couldn't think of anything, we would ask her what Eloise would do. Soon, an interesting plan would develop.

Eloise is a brave little girl. Her mother is always gone, and only invites her to come along when the sun is shining where her mother is. In the meantime, there's room service.

Eloise is a great book for the beginning reader, because the illustrations so nicely match up with the story. In fact, when your child has a chance to visit The Plaza, she or he will be delighted to see that it is so much like the book. This makes it seem like home for your child, as well. Also, there are not too many punctuations (especially periods) so it's easy to focus on the words.

The story is hilarious. Most adults wouldn't have the aplomb or the self-confidence of Eloise. For children, Eloise is a marvel . . . as well as a whimsical role model. What child will not want to have this story read and memorize it? That memorization then helps form the basics of learning to match the memory to the words. And soon, your child is reading along with you. At some point, he or she can take over and read the story aloud to you. What great fun for you both!

One of my favorite qualities in the story is that Eloise is never bored. She must be allergic to ennui. Yet so often youngsters today say they are bored, like war-weary Europeans after World War I. Eloise can help turn that attitude around into more active channels. No television addict is she!

After Eloise has been adopted as a niece into your family, I suggest that you use Eloise's story as a starting point to help your child understand herself or himself better. Why is Eloise so happy in The Plaza? Would your child like to live in The Plaza? Why is Eloise never bored?

Look for opportunities to explore your potential, wherever and whoever you are!

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Summary: eloise forever!
Review: I first read Eloise when my mom and aunt and I went to NYC. I have the book at home and it's one of my favorites. I can't wait to read Eloise in Paris and God Bless Kay Thompson and Hillary Knight. Without those two, no one on this Earth will ever get the joy of reading Kay's book and seeing Hillary's illustrations about a little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York, Eloise

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Summary: I will not try and quote Eloise here
Review: I think it's time that many of us admitted that textually, Eloise doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Kay Thompson had a lot of personality, but darn it, she wrote a few sentences without punctuation that make Faulkner's Benji's narrative sound lucid, and we heap the praise on her "genius". Eloise is not Eloise without Hilary Knight. The drawings in this book are the reason I bought it (and every subsequent book)and Knight is the reason i continue to adore Eloise. The New York of Eloise is timeless, and makes all of us want to live in Eloise's world (though I am not sure if I'd want to be Eloise per se... she's a bit of a brat, and has no friends.) I love these books, and wish there were more of them... and I wish Knight could draw her forever. If only thompson had not scrapped the idea for "Eloise takes a Bawth", (a 5th book) that would have been wonderful. Long live Eloise, and Hilary Knight!

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Summary: A favorite that will be passed on to future generations.
Review: I was given this book as a child. It is still one of my favorites that I own. I bought a new Eloise for my older daughter, who passed it onto her little sister. This is a story of a little girl, Eloise, who lives at the Plaza Hotel with her nanny. She has a very vivid imagnation and is quite an actress. Her adventures in a single day can leave the reader with panges of envy. If only I could do what she does and get away with it. Her nanny fits into the role of a "I missed the boat" of becoming a Mary Poppins graduate. Still you have to love her because you know she really loves Eloise. Sit back and enjoy the ride,the elevator ride of course. It will keep you busy for a good 20 minutes. This book will be read more than once. I guarantee it.....

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Summary: Absolutely, utterly fantastic
Review: This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time now, ever since it first caught my eye on the shelf of a store. Kay Thompson's imaginative little girl, who tells precisely that she is six, and that she is "ELOISE", is so mischievous but immediately likeable; but credit also goes to Hilary Knight, for I cannot imagine a better drawn character for Eloise. Ms.Knight somehow just somehow manages to capture the essence of her, and I admire her for that.

Although I'am now 14, I still re-read the book when it's a rainy day or when I need to smile. Eloise brightens up my life, and I'am ever so grateful to my mom for buying it for me!!

If you haven't read Eloise, you don't know what you're missing out on, and I suggest that you hurry up and read it!!

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Summary: Informed Parents
Review: This is a very fun book. The story is imaginative and witty and the illustrations wonderfully whimsical. I bought this book for my little girl, remembering how much I loved it as a child when my first grade teacher read it to our class. Though I truly love this book, I can only give it 4 stars. This is because I must edit it as I read it to my daughter because I find some of the language used by the precocious Miss Eloise a bit offensive. By my count(done quickly), Eloise uses the phrase "for Lord's sake" six times and "Oh my Lord" five. In my home this is called "taking the name of the Lord in vain" and it's something your not suppoesed to do. It reduces the name of our Lord and Savior to a mere exclamation. I will still read this book with my child. When my daughter (now only 19 months)is old enough to understand, we will talk about how much we love Eloise but how it's not okay to take the name of the Lord in vain or terrorize one's tutor.