The Eloise Audio Collection: Four Complete Eloise Tales: Eloise , Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmas Time and Eloise in Moscow

by Kay Thompson, Bernadette Peters (Read by)

Overview

2016 Audie Award Finalist for Young Listeners

Tony Award–winning Broadway legend Bernadette Peters gives voice to The Plaza Hotel's most iconic resident as she makes her audio debut in The Eloise Collection.

Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise books have never been available on audio...until now! To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first Eloise book, Kay Thompson's estate personally chose Bernadette Peters to narrate the very first Eloise audiobooks. Two New York City icons unite in The Eloise Collection, four classic Eloise stories: Eloise; Eloise in Paris; Eloise in Moscow; and Eloise at Christmas Time together in one amazing audio compilation. Join Bernadette Peters as she introduces you to the life and adventures of Eloise—a one-of-a-kind audio event!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442391741
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:	10/27/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Kay Thompson (1909–1998) was a singer, dancer, vocal arranger, and coach of many MGM musicals in the 1940s. The Eloise character grew out of the voice of a precocious six-year-old that Miss Thompson put on to amuse her friends. Collaborating with Hilary Knight on what was an immediate bestseller, Kay Thompson became a literary sensation when Eloise was published in 1955. The book has sold more than two million copies to date. Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight created four more Eloise books, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmas, Eloise in Moscow, and Eloise Takes a Bawth.

Date of Birth:

November 9, 1909

Date of Death:

July 2, 1998

Place of Birth:

St. Louis, Missouri

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Washington University

Editorial Reviews

01/25/2016
Eeeew! Peters is a pitch-perfect six-year-old Eloise. Thompson chose her herself, and a good choice it was, for few adult actors can make such young characters sound both silly and believable. With delicious humor, Peters recreates the sophisticated, childish, beguiling, and snooty miscreant who lives on the top floor of the Plaza with her dog, her turtle, and her very, very, very British nanny, who frequently utters adjectives and adverbs in threes. Eloise “ab-so-lute-ly luuvves” the Plaza and its staff, whom she runs ragged, making demands of the doormen and management, crawling among patrons and endlessly ordering (mostly caviar) from room service. The first three tales—“Eloise,” “Eloise at Christmas Time,” and “Eloise in Paris”—are delightful. The fourth, “Eloise in Moscow,” is out of kilter with the rest. Without Hilary Knight’s familiar drawings, the audio edition seems like social satire directed at Soviet propaganda, since Thompson makes fun of the endless chatter of Eloise’s Russian translator (comically rendered here by Peters), but this dialogue is repetitive, tiresome, and not well-suited for the intended audience. Ages 7–up. A Simon & Schuster picture book. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Audio

"For precocious grownups" announces the book’s introduction, and one wonders about the audience for this excellent four-book audio collection about the girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. Still, if Eloise fans want to share this classic with their children and enjoy it again themselves, this production is the way to go. The incomparable Bernadette Peters consistently expresses the singular voice of Eloise—with its curious mix of pseudosophistication and youthful verve. Whether she’s affecting a French accent or singing a tuneless duet with her nanny, Eloise’s energy and activity level can sometimes be maddening. Musical interludes are a wonderful accompaniment; for example, “The Flight of the Bumblebee” aids in describing her busy flights up and down elevators. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2016 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2016 - AudioFile