Truth be told, Eloise — the beloved sklonking, skibbling Plaza dweller of fiction — would likely have been booted after her home base went condo. But, in any case, there’s a new room-service baby in town.
Ella is 6, multi-ethnic and has taken up residence in the penthouse of the Local Hotel, which looks suspiciously like Williamsburg’s Wythe. No, she’s not the newest co-star on “Girls.”
She’s the heroine of “Ella,” a picture book by Mallory Kasdan and Marcos Chin, out Tuesday.
You could go blind from all the winking to the original 1955 “Eloise” by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight. Eloise had suspenders, a turtle named Skipperdee and a nanny. Ella has combat boots, a goldfish named Rasta and a tattooed manny.
DUMBO author Kasdan says, “This is where Eloise would live…now. She wouldn’t be in Manhattan anymore — she’d be in Brooklyn with her nanny and groovy mom.”
Ella — whose absentee mother works in showbiz and Skypes her daughter “from set” at bedtime — also carries as many mommy issues as her predecessor.
Hopelessly clinging to adults, including the hotel’s artist-in-residence and her memoir-journaling tutor, the tiny hanger-on can’t take a hint, straining the last nerve of the concierge with complaints about her Wi-Fi.
Did we mention she has an online shop where she sells her photographs?
Little Ella may be cute, but she’s one overshare away from forcing us to block her Facebook status updates.