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Eloise in Moscow
Kay Thompson
Drawings by Hilary Knight
Picture Book (Series)
Ages 5 and up
Simon and Schuster, 1999, 0-689-83211-7
Eloise and Nanny are off on another trip and this time they are going to Moscow. It is quite different from their sojourn in Paris, and Nanny and Eloise find themselves in a cold, snow filled world. Eloise quickly discovers that rules here are "rawther" different from the ones she is used to. For one thing "you are never alone" for there always seem to be people about though it is hard to say what they are actually doing. Then there is the fact that you cannot "charge it please" when you get food in the hotel restaurant and the food itself is a little unusual.
Eloise also encounters a force which is able to withstand even her variety of naughtiness - their guide. This is a woman with a wooden face who specializes in telling Eloise and Nanny what "IS POSSIBLE" and what "IS NOT POSSIBLE." There seem to be very few of the former and "rawther" a lot of the latter. Briskly and efficiently Nanny and Eloise are shown all the sights of the city - at least the ones that are not obscured by the blizzard.
What with visits to the subway, the circus, restaurants, the ballet, the theatre, and to a winter sports event, Nanny and Eloise are kept pretty busy rushing this way and that. Of course they never loose the man who is supposed to keep an eye on them - he is everywhere they are and one sort of gets "rawther" used to him after a while.
Naturally Eloise's special brand of "joi de vivre" begins to rub off a little on the people she meets and there can be no doubt that when she leaves Russia it is not quite the same place it was before this very special little six-year-old came to visit.
This delicious book will not only entertain children but it will delight adults with its tongue-in-cheek humor which gently pokes fun at the manners and ways of 1950's Cold War Russia. Hilary Knight's wonderful illustrations include a remarkable fold out which shows the reader the Kremlin and Eloise's path through it. There can be no doubt that this volume is a must for all fans of "ME ELOISE."
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