Bonjour Here''s the thing of it: Paris has just been
discovered by Eloise the little girl from the Plaza...Here is what
Eloise does in Paris: everything.The effect is rawther
extraordinaire. If you come to Paris with Eloise you will always be
glad you did."Eloise in Paris" was first published in 1957, the
second of the Eloise quartet, and an immediate bestseller. Kay
Thompson and Hilary Knight traveled to Paris to research the book,
and the illustrations are dotted with the celebrities they knew
there: Richard Avedon takes Eloise''s passport photograph; Christian
Dior prods her tummy, while his young assistant, Yves Saint
Laurent, looks on; Lena Horne sits at an outdoor cafe.All four
Eloise books by the late Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight -- "Eloise:
The Absolutely Essential Edition, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at
Christmastime, " and "Eloise in Moscow --" are now being reissued
by Simon and Schuster.
關於作者:
Kay Thompson 1909-1998 was a singer, dancer, vocal arranger,
and coach of many MGM musicals in the 1940s.
The Eloise character grew out of the voice of a precocious
six-year-old that Miss Thompson put on to amuse her friends.
Collaborating with Hilary Knight on what was an immediate
bestseller, Kay Thompson became a literary sensation when Eloise
was published in 1955. The book has sold more than two million
copies to date. Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight created four more
Eloise books, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmas, Eloise in
Moscow, and Eloise Takes a Bawth.^Hilary Knight, son of
artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katharine Sturges, was educated
at the Art Students League, where he studied with Reginald Marsh.
Besides the Eloise books, Hilary Knight has illustrated more than
fifty books for children, six of which he wrote himself.
He lives and works in New York City, not far from The Plaza
Hotel.