1983; drawings by Hilary Knight; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; hardbound; very good condition; dust jacket very good with minor wear.
 
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A book for precocious grown-ups, about a little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel.  A classic work of children's literature, featuring the precocious and adventurous Eloise. A six-year-old girl living among adults at the Plaza Hotel, Thompson's heroine is "not yet pretty but she is already a Person. Henry James would want to study her. Queen Victoria would recognize her as an Equal...she is interested in People when they are not boring."