![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t give a damn who owns it.” This came in 1995 during the height of the Plaza sale that was going on.īaffling to the uninitiated, I can tell you. If I’m not too much mistaken she’s sitting on the bed saying, “I am Eloise. It was by Roz Chast and was called “Eloise Revisited”. ![]() Somehow I managed to continue this ignorance well into adulthood, until one day I ran across a baffling New Yorker cartoon. There may be high tea, but heaven only knows where. I was from Michigan! We don’t have plazas in Kalamazoo. No, honestly, I’d never laid eyes on the character. And when I say, “I didn’t know” I’m not talking about one of those cases where you are vaguely aware of a character, like Peter from The Snowy Day or Max from Where the Wild Things Are. Yet amongst the gatekeepers? Maybe her grip is slipping. From easy books to television shows and movies she’s never been more ubiquitous. What can we extrapolate from a book that previously held the coveted #37 slot on our last Picture Book Poll, falling incredibly to a lowly #76? It’s particularly strange when you consider the sheer plethora of Eloise marketing going on these days. ![]()
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