In “Bawth,” as Eloise lolls in her bathtub at the Plaza and indulges in aquatic fantasies - water-skiing with her pet turtle and traveling the seas in a pirate ship - and she floods the entire hotel on the night of the Venetian Masked Ball. (Charge it please and thank you very much!) (Only the Plaza allows turtles!) She skibbles and skidders about the halls having grand adventures - feeding her mother’s attorney rubber candy, hiding in high-up holes in the Grand Ballroom, torturing her tutor and ordering everything possible from room service. Born 50 years ago as an impish voice Thompson would use to entertain friends - and first immortalized in “Kay Thompson’s Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grownups” - Eloise is a saucy 6-year-old who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York with Nanny, her pug dog Weenie (who looks like a cat) and her turtle Skipperdee.
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