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Kay Thompson was born in St. Louis, Missouri inthe daughter of a local jeweler. She showed early promise as a pianist; she started to play the piano when she was four, and at sixteen played Franz Liszt with the St. Louis Symphony. Shortly afterward, she appeared as featured vocalist with a local dance band. Thompson went to California inwhen she was seventeen. Her first job was as a diving instructor, but she soon found a job on the radio as a vocalist with Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups Mills Brothers. Later she joined Fred Waring's band in New York as a singer and arranger. She decided to produce her own radio show, which was aired over the CBS network under the name Kay Thompson and Company. The show was not as big a success as Thompson had hoped and so she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios as an arranger and composer. She remained with the studio for four years until she created her own night club routine. The show opened at Ciro's night club in and was successful enough to be taken on the road. Thompson kept the act going until Eloise's birth was unexpected. Thompson prized punctuality, but one day she was late to rehearsals with the Mills Brothers. In a high, childish voice, she made her apology. One of her co-workers said, 'Who are you, little girl? The routine became a book after Thompson began performing in in a one-woman show at the Plaza. While she was appearing in the hotel's Persian Room, she was introduced to an artist, Hilary Knight, and he became the illustrator of Eloise, which was subtitled A Book for Precocious Grown Ups. Thompson wrote the book during a three-month break from performing. Later she wrote three other books about Eloise, which were also illustrated by Knight. In the first two years after Eloise came out,copies were sold. According to records beginning in, copies of "Eloise" have been sold in the United States since then. Thompson also founded Eloise Ltd. In later years, Ms. Thompson acted in movies, including "Funny Face," and on television. Kay Thompson died in July of Hilary Knight was born on November 1, He is the son of artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katherine Sturges. He was born in Hempstead, Long Island and grew up in the town of Roslyn. When Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups was six the family moved to Manhattan where he has lived ever since. He is the illustrator of over fifty books, nine of which he also wrote. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series. He lives in an apartment in midtown Manhattan which also serves as his studio and library. Eloise en Navidad. Kay Thompson. Eloise prepara el dia de Navida con su inseparable Nanny, la ninera que vive con ella en el Hotel Plaza, su perro Chimichurri y su tortuga. El dia antes de Navidad, Eloise y Nanny despliegan una gran actividad. Todos son Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups, hay que Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups las guirnaldas, adornar el arbol, caramelizar manzanas, colocar velas, envolver los regalos y no olvidarse de nadie. Todo el mundo en el hotel, por si no lo sabian, acaban enterandose que es Navidad. Eloise en Navidad - Kay Thompson - Google книги

Sometime in the early 's, a young artist and illustrator slid a drawing of two little girls -- a scruffy little ruffian carrying a club and a fluffy one with an enormous pink hair bow -- under the door of his neighbor, a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. It was a game between them, a joke. The neighbor introduced the illustrator, Hilary Knight, to her great and glamorous friend Kay Thompson, who lived at the Plaza Hotel and had had a long, varied career that included being Judy Garland's vocal coach and inventing her own wildly successful nightclub act. Thompson, also as a game, for years had been improvising a 6-year-old alter ego she called Eloise to amuse her celebrated friends on movie sets and at parties; Eloise offered hilarious advice over the phone as well. Knight's little girls, it seemed to the neighbor, were kindred spirits to Thompson's alter ego. Thompson, who was in her 40's, was grand, given to leopard prints and trailing head scarves; Knight, then in his late 20's, was unassuming, the child of New York artists, and just at the start of his career. They hit it off right away. In November they produced ''Kay Thompson's Eloise,'' which became one of the best-selling children's books of all time. The three sequels that followed in quick succession -- Eloise in Paris''''Eloise at Christmastime'' and ''Eloise in Moscow'' Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups also hits, with a tsunami of marketing behind them, as well as Eloise fashion lines and toys and an enduring identity for the Plaza, which is now an official literary landmark. Then something happened. In a Garbo-esque gesture, Eloise suddenly and without explanation quit the stage. Though Knight and Thompson worked for four years on ''Eloise Takes a Bawth,'' Thompson wouldn't allow it to be published and pulled all three sequels from print as well, claiming that only the original had been worthy of publication. It continued to sell strongly, but it wasn't until after Thompson's death in that the sequels were again published. And now, at last, ''Eloise Takes a Bawth'' will have its long-delayed opening. With beautiful illustrations by Knight, and the hundreds of extant manuscript pages having been pieced together by the playwright Mart Crowley, author of ''The Boys in the Band'' and a longtime friend of Thompson's, the book will finally appear at the end of this month. Nearly 40 years after her retreat, this legendarily imaginative, eccentric 6-year-old star is as blithe and rambunctious as ever, a delightful ruffian in a school uniform and a hair bow. She hasn't changed. But have we? The first thing that anyone must understand about the Eloise books is that Thompson never thought she was writing them for children. Once, in a bookstore, upon discovering her titles sequestered with the kids' books, she gathered up as many copies as she could carry and marched them to a table in the adult section. She probably needn't have bothered, as adults found Eloise as fascinating as children did. Eloise -- pre-Beat, pre-hippie, pre-civil rights, pre- Stonewall, pre-Vietnam, pre-women's liberation -- doesn't have a political vocabulary of rebellion. She simply is rebellion, in the form of a tiny cyclone of charm. Living more or less by herself at the Plaza Hotel, in the company of her highly indulgent Nanny; her dog, Weenie; her dear, somewhat accident-prone doll, Saylor; and her turtle, Skipperdee, who wears sneakers and dines on raisins, Eloise spends her time doing whatever it is she would most like to do at the moment. She orders room service ''one roast-beef bone, one raisin and seven spoons to the top floor and charge it please''talks on the phone, lunches at the Palm Court, wears toe shoes on her ears, pours water down the mail chute and generally roams around the Plaza wreaking various kinds of havoc. Though gentle at heart, Eloise submits to no authority whatsoever. She is free with language, given to the invention of adjectives like ''everly'' and verbs like ''sklathe'' and ''skidder'' and ''slomp'' as in ''I slomp my skates if I want to make a really loud and terrible racket''. Her mother, who is never present, sends money and plane tickets. Eloise travels the world, speaks French, is dressed by Dior. She is a small sophisticate, freer and more cosmopolitan than not only the children to whom her story was being read but also most of their parents. She's the id. While it's true that Eloise has an id-like grandeur, a rampant sense of pleasure and disregard for any sorts of rules, the vehicle of her freedom hails from the more civilized realm of the ego: it is her precocity. This sophistication -- the French, the room service, the Plaza itself -- functioned for the generation to whom she was first read much as the rhetoric of liberation would in the 60's: as the way out of conformity. Because she is treated like a little adult, she can skidder wherever she wants. Thompson -- who partied with Garland and Lena Horne, who played a Diana Vreeland-esque fashion editor in the movie ''Funny Face'' and with whom Noel Coward and Blake Edwards both wanted to work although she declined -- was from Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups generation for whom the ''sophisticated'' life was life outside the box and far from one's dreary hometown. Eloise, whose story is offered ''for Precocious Grown-Ups,'' is a miniature emissary from a glittering metropolis where all manner of unimaginably madcap things go on day and night and no one gives a damn. You are 6, and the world is your oyster, sent up on a bed of ice, with Champagne. The sentimental idea of children's ''innocence'' was, he showed, a dubious construction at best; families, far from sustaining the fabric of civilization, in fact ''stifled. Times change. So do our ideas about children, grown-ups and precocity. If you were to graph, like a stock, the concept of the precocious child, it would have the value at the moment of shares of WorldCom. Before Eloise, precocity took on different guises at different moments, from the mark of genius Mozart to the capacity for survival Pippi Longstocking to some sort of eugenic anomaly. Nine years old, with an I. One of Eloise's most recognizable predecessors is Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline, the Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups Parisian orphan with an attitude; a brother, also from France, might be Tintin, who, in the company of his dog, Snowy, roams the world entirely unsupervised. But both Madeline and Tintin are sober, between-the-wars, European children. Tintin's world is full of kidnappers and Abominable Snowmen; in Madeline's Paris it is often raining. Eloise seems to have ushered in an optimistic attitude toward precocity -- distinctly American and unmistakably urban. Harriet the Spy rambled around New York observing her neighbors and having probing conversations with the city's fascinating characters. Basil E. Frankweiler''two children live for a time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, literally making themselves at home in centuries of civilization. Their New York was a richly storied place where knowingness was a virtue, a pathway to a wider world. Meanwhile, in the hinterlands, precocious von Trapp children outwitted the Nazis, precocious Partridge kids became rock stars and the old-beyond-their-years ''Peanuts'' kids formed a melancholy society suffused with love and disappointment. Children were portrayed more like ''adults,'' and equally as important, adults were permitted to act more Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups ''children,'' to play and eschew traditional responsibilities. Moms could run away from home. Dads could wear flowers in their hair. Precocity, in the environment of the 60's and 70's, became the place where adults and children once more played together in a world that was abundant with the possibility of the untried. It seemed terribly glamorous to me, for instance, when the knowing teenage daughter in the film ''An Unmarried Woman'' sprawled across the bed of a Manhattan apartment with her mother's friends, party to their explicit stories of love, sex, depression and divorce. She didn't look traumatized; she looked interested. Emotional sophistication was a serious game girls and women played together, and New York was the field on which they did so. As it has turned out, all of this was the flower of a fragile and passing moment. The year after Ronald Reagan was elected president, the English-language publication of the best-selling ''Prisoners of Childhood,'' by the Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller, made words like ''gifted'' or ''precocious'' synonymous with damaged almost beyond repair. Behind the worldly successes of gifted children, warned Miller, ''lurks depression, the feeling of emptiness and self-alienation, and a sense that their life has no meaning. Recently, we have seen the story of Justin Chapman, reputed boy genius and 6-year-old college student. His mother, it was revealed, had been faking his scores, pushing and promoting him until he had to be hospitalized. Justin is the real-life counterpart of the quiz-show kid in ''Magnolia,'' who is Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups terrorized that he wets his pants onstage. Even in more lighthearted cultural contexts, precocious children these days tend to have a worried, vigilant expression, like Lisa Simpson of ''The Simpsons,'' or to be bossy, like Angelica on ''Rugrats. More and more, unmediated contact between adults and children is presented as dangerous or outright lethal to the young. Everyone knows that child stars end up lying in gutters with needles in their arms. And during Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups recent wave of child-abduction stories, though the actual number of children violently abducted by strangers each year is about a hundred, parental anxiety was off the charts. Who, in good conscience, would leave a child alone in a world where Ambers and Elizabeths seem to disappear every few days? Comically expressed in the gigantic hit ''Home Alone,'' the idea that children separated from their parents are in peril for their lives has become commonplace. Stuart Little, who in the book traveled the countryside alone in search of Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups bird friend Margalo, was shown in ads for his last film playing peewee soccer under the watchful eyes of his parents. Hymowitz makes a sometimes frenzied call for the reinstatement of parental authority. She's not a fan of day care and says people who postpone marriage are socially useless ''freaks of culture,'' but in the end she's not all that far Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups the mean. Left, right and center, we buy parenting magazines in droves, we kidproof everything in sight and we are highly aware of allergens. Upon Eloise's return, we might well expect her to be swathed in a bicycle helmet and kneepads, to have a cathartic reunion with her mother that results in more appropriate boundaries for both of them and, of course, to move to the suburbs, where Eloise will finally attend school. Happily, this is not the case. I sit on Hilary Knight's plush red sofa Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups the Midtown Manhattan apartment where he has lived for 40 years. Once upon a time it was fashionably all white; now the walls are lacquered black and covered floor to ceiling with his parents' drawings and paintings Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups his own theatrical posters. At one end of the room are two ceiling-high palm trees of his own design, with black lacquer trunks and gold leaves. Knight, 75, is a soft-spoken, very pleasant man. He is Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups his socks, ankles comfortably crossed next to a pair of leopard-print file boxes. When I ask why Thompson withdrew her most famous creation while holding the copyrights to Knight's illustrationsKnight just shakes his head. He recalls visiting her in Rome after the break and finding a cabinet full of manuscripts. He sits down next to me on the sofa, and we Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups the big pages of ''Eloise Takes a Bawth. There would be the same page typed 20 times with one word in caps, but then not in caps, or one piece of punctuation might be different. The story line is simple: at the same moment that Mr. Salomone, the manager of the Plaza, is preparing for a ball in the ''Grawnd Ballroom,'' Eloise is taking a bath -- a bawth -- upstairs. She is also less insistently present: whereas Eloise appeared at least once on every page of the original book, ''Bawth'' cuts away from her several times to gorgeous extended scenes of the Plaza itself. Knight opens up a foldout page, a party scene in which Thompson herself shares the stage with a fantasy band made up of Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Thompson's goddaughter, in whose apartment she lived in her last years. They will not appear in the finished book. The editors ''thought people wouldn't understand it,'' Knight says. Also missing are some of Eloise's characteristically unorthodox coinages, per the instructions of Thompson's executors -- her nephew, an engineer; and her niece, a teacher of English as a second language. The resulting Eloise is not hobbled, but she is ever so faintly more ladylike. Even now, however, you are hard pressed to find a character with as much sheer joie de vivre as Eloise. Along with Madeline and Tintin and Harriet the Spy, children's book sections now feature Maira Kalman's Max, the millionaire-poet dog who has a very Eloise-ian sense of play; Lilly, the exuberant mouse of ''Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse''; Kay Thompsons Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-Ups especially Ian Falconer's gaily egotistical little pig, Olivia. The superstar of children's literature right now, of course, is Harry Potter. Harry, like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, is an emblem of the hidden power of difference, of the outsider whose true value, if not superiority, must come to light -- in this case, as he goes from the rags of middle-class familial conformity to the riches of velvet-cloaked esoteric wizardhood. Harry Potter books, inhaled by adults as well as children, have been so popular that the lack of a new installment in helped drive an industrywide slump in sales of children's books. Eloise | Children's Books Wiki | Fandom

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