"Here Comes Eloise" is a charming little story about a budding sociopath on roller skates who delights in tormenting the doomed employees of The Plaza, the snooty hotel where she lives. The book follows the little hellion as she menaces hotel guests with a luggage cart, steals the contents of other people's packages, abuses the kitchen staff, and ruins a wedding.
Apparently even her parents can't stand to spend more than five minutes with the little turd because they've left her in the care of some bitter old crone called Nanny, who does nothing to curb the girl's destructive tendencies. Even as an angry mob descends on Eloise's apartment, ostensibly to mete out some frontier justice, Nanny heads them off allowing Eloise to continue to run amuck.
The last page shows her pouring a carafe of milk down the hotel mail chute while saying, "Oooooooooooooo, I absolutely love The Plaza!" Disturbing.
The only redeeming quality of the book is the fact that it's about four pages long and has about 20 words in it.
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