Hilary Knight

A circus parade highlights the colorful and exciting acts to come.

A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves all children, but she is realistic enough to know that they must be cured of misbehavior and bad habits. Her cures are refreshingly old-fashioned-let the child who won't bathe not bathe until there is enough dirt on her skin in which to plant radish seeds. Sendak...

Reedition. Volume publie en 1999 dans la collection ##Album Gallimard## chez le meme editeur. Eloise loge au Plaza avec sa Nanny cherie. Primesautiere, la fillette est envahie par la magie de Noel. Elle multiplie les cabrioles et les cadeaux. C'est la fete! finalement, tous sont entraines dans la ronde par son enthousiasme. Ce recit vivant a ete publie en 1956. [SDM].

Presents a commemorative edition of a classic, humorous cookbook that includes more than 180 easy recipes for those who fear the kitchen, covering such categories as entrees, side dishes, salads, vegetables, and desserts, along with household hints.

Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-I-doers.

"'I absolutely love Christmas!" Christmastime in New York City finds Eloise eagerly anticipating her mother's return, and terrorizing the staff and patrons of the Plaza with her usual brio. Rachel, the daughter of Plaza owner Mr. Peabody, returns from college to marry Brooks Oliver. But Rachel used to like Eloise's favorite waiter, Bill, who still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend. Eloise sets out to remedy the situation, while celebrating the season...

Determined to spread Christmas cheer throughout the Plaza Hotel, six-year-old Eloise "decorates" the halls, distributes unusual gifts to the staff, and surprises the fifth floor guests with her joyful caroling.