Eloise
A Dumarest Novel

A Children's Book Gone Wrong Eloise is a six-year old girl living at The Plaza, a very swanky hotel in New York. Eloise engages in all kinds of obnoxious and selfish behavior that would be unbecoming for even a four-year old. The only funny thing about this book was the nanny who had to have not one,......more

FIVE EXPANSIVE BOOKS SET IN CLOSE QUARTERS (#5) This summer, the Wall Street Journal asked me to pick five books I admired that were somehow reminiscent of A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW. To that end, I wrote on five works in which the action is confined to a small space, but in which the reader somehow exper......more

fulfilling my 2020 goal to read (at least) one book each month that was given to me as a present that i haven't yet gotten around to reading because i am an ungrateful dick.......more

Charming and witty book about a bright, loquacious, mischievous, imaginative 6 year old girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York. First in the Eloise series and a good one to read first. Really fun to read to little girls and I still enjoy it.......more

Ooooooooooooooo I absolutely love this book series so much!  It is written in the stream of consciousness style of a 6 year old girl talking without any  punctuation.  Eloise (the 6 year old girl)  lives in the Park Plaza Hotel and has many adventures within it.  Nanny is her mostly companion, but h......more