title: Eloise Ready-to-Read Value Pack: Eloise's Summer Vacation; Eloise at the Wedding; Eloise and the Very Secret Room; Eloise Visits the Zoo; Eloise Throws a Party!; Eloise's Pirate Adventure
author: Kay Thompson
description: Kay Thompson (19091998) was a singer, dancer, vocal arranger, and coach of many MGM musicals in the 1940s. The Eloise character grew out of the voice of a precocious six-year-old that Miss Thompson put on to amuse her friends. Collaborating with Hilary Knight on what was an immediate bestseller, Kay Thompson became a literary sensation when <i>Eloise</i> was published in 1955. The book has sold more than two million copies to date. Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight created four more Eloise books, <i>Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmas, Eloise in Moscow,</i> and <i>Eloise Takes a Bawth.</i>
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  For Ellsa, intrepid and adventurous
  
  
  
  
  
  With special thanks to Julie Sykes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Pony Royal Family](the_pony_royal_family.html)
  
  
  [Map of Chevalia](map_of_chevalia.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](early_one_morning_just_before_dawn_two_ponies_st.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](chapter_1.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](chapter_2.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](chapter_3.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](chapter_4.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](chapter_5.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](chapter_6.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](chapter_7.html)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](chapter_8.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chevalia Now!](chevalia_now.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![royalfamily](royalfamily.zoom67.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![map](map.zoom64.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Early one morning](contents.html), just before dawn, two ponies stood in an
  ancient courtyard, looking sadly at a bare stone wall.
  
  
  ‘In all my life this wall has never been empty. I can’t believe that the
  horseshoes have been taken