Comments on: Top 100 Picture Books #76: Eloise by Kay Thompson http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/21/top-100-picture-books-76-eloise-by-kay-thompson/ A School Library Journal Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 04:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Sam Irvin http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/21/top-100-picture-books-76-eloise-by-kay-thompson/#comment-770053 Sam Irvin Tue, 22 May 2012 00:38:58 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=12848#comment-770053 Likewise, I am a little baffled why ELOISE has fallen on the charts -- but this may be due to the fact that the publisher, Simon & Schuster, has not been actively promoting the original books or the recent spinoffs. Every few years, they come back with of blitz of reissues, so I guess we're in one of those "in-between" lulls. Meanwhile, if you want to know the whole true story behind Kay Thompson and the creation of Eloise, don't miss my book KAY THOMPSON: FROM FUNNY FACE TO ELOISE (Simon & Schuster). For more information, visit: www.KayThompsonWebsite.com On the home page, you will find a recent drawing of me reading my Kay Thompson book to Eloise, drawn by the incomparable Hilary Knight for VANITY FAIR. ELOISE FAN ALERT: Hilary Knight and I will be appearing together Saturday, August 11, 2012, at AUTHORS NIGHT 2012, founded by Alec Baldwin, at the East Hampton Library in East Hampton, New York. Hilary will be signing Eloise books and I will be signing my Kay Thompson book. Don't miss it! Likewise, I am a little baffled why ELOISE has fallen on the charts — but this may be due to the fact that the publisher, Simon & Schuster, has not been actively promoting the original books or the recent spinoffs. Every few years, they come back with of blitz of reissues, so I guess we’re in one of those “in-between” lulls.

Meanwhile, if you want to know the whole true story behind Kay Thompson and the creation of Eloise, don’t miss my book KAY THOMPSON: FROM FUNNY FACE TO ELOISE (Simon & Schuster). For more information, visit: http://www.KayThompsonWebsite.com

On the home page, you will find a recent drawing of me reading my Kay Thompson book to Eloise, drawn by the incomparable Hilary Knight for VANITY FAIR.

ELOISE FAN ALERT: Hilary Knight and I will be appearing together Saturday, August 11, 2012, at AUTHORS NIGHT 2012, founded by Alec Baldwin, at the East Hampton Library in East Hampton, New York. Hilary will be signing Eloise books and I will be signing my Kay Thompson book. Don’t miss it!

]]> By: Julie Hedlund http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/05/21/top-100-picture-books-76-eloise-by-kay-thompson/#comment-769872 Julie Hedlund Mon, 21 May 2012 20:54:12 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=12848#comment-769872 I'm also from Michigan (Gaylord), and Eloise was one of the few books I owned as a child. It was precisely <i>because</i> there was nothing remotely like the Plaza in Michigan that I loved it so much. The book might as well have been set in a foreign country. :-) So loving this poll, btw! I’m also from Michigan (Gaylord), and Eloise was one of the few books I owned as a child. It was precisely because there was nothing remotely like the Plaza in Michigan that I loved it so much. The book might as well have been set in a foreign country. :-)

So loving this poll, btw!

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