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World Hotels - Eloise in Moscow
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List Price: $17.00
Our Price: $11.56
Your Save: $ 5.44 ( 32% )
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780689832116
ISBN: 0689832117
Label: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Studio: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Odd Couple Invade Russia and Produce Best-seller When Kay Thompson (with Hilary Knight in tow) swept through Moscow at the height of the Cold War, the Russians didn't know what hit them. No one could have predicted that this small masterpiece would be the result. First published in 1959 and out of print for more than three decades, their fourth book about Eloise is DELICIOUS.
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Summary: Another Wonderful Eloise Adventure
Comment: We love Eloise in our house. Yes, she's not the best behaved little girl, but our daughter (6 y.o.) understands that and isn't using her as a role model. Eloise is the kind of book you don't mind reading over and over again. The language is beautiful, the drawings are amazing and you get to learn a little something about long ago Moscow! While the poetry of Eloise at the Plaza is a little more engaging, Eloise in Moscow is special with it's yellow color theme and view of the Kremlin. Besides, it's fun to track the "spy guy" on each page as he follows Eloise. All of the original Kay Thompson Eloise books (Plaza, Paris, & Moscow) are highly recommended by us.
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Summary: More Here Than Meets The Eye
Comment: The Eloise books are treasures but this one is something more than the expected delightful romp through the world from the perspective of a precocious child. Pay close attention here and you'll find yourself reading what surely has to rank as one of the most perceptively realistic takes on what life was like in Cold War Moscow. Bread lines, censorship, spies everywhere, an unwelcoming land with cold, sterile cityscapes, and suspicion everywhere. `Bleak' is a good word for the culture Eloise encounters and Kay Thompson describes. So what is here is both another joyful trip out with our spunky six-year-old heroine, and a deceivingly focused presentation on how dreary Soviet life was fifty years ago. (And how lucky we in the west are to have the freedom and prosperity we do!)
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Summary: Do I recommend this book? "Oh Definitely Da."
Comment: Get out your woolies and fur hats, Eloise is going to Moscow! In the funniest of Eloise's many escapades, she travels to the Russia of the 1950s with Nanny, Winnie, and Skipperdee in tow. Apart from her usual hotel antics, including spying on the other guests and dinning on black caviar from the Caspian Sea, Eloise has many mischievous adventures at the Bolshoi Ballet, Red Square, and inside the Kremlin. While young children will not understand all the humor in this and other Eloise books, they certainly still love the outrageous heroine Eloise, who's expressions and intentions are so vividly portrayed by Hilary Knight's illustrations. Eloise in Moscow continues Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight's tradition of hilarious books for precocious grown-ups.
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Summary: Eloise Is Back
Comment: Eloise is back and more mischevious than ever. This time Eloise, Nanny, Weenie (her dog who looks like a cat), and Skipperdee (her turtle) are in Moscow. Eloise visits the ballet, and has a tour guide, but thinks someone is spying on her. "As you know there's no privacy in Moscow."This is a must have for anyone's Eloise collection. So buy a copy, and charge it please.
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Summary: Moscow relived
Comment: As an Ex-Pat living in Moscow during 2001, I wanted a book to share with the little ones we know in the United States. This book is not only funny bit accurate. The middle pull out of the Kremlin is supurb and everyone who has received it from us has loved it. I have a copy of one myself so I can look back on my experiences living here and laugh at some of the same ones Eloise and I have had.
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