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Louise the Big Cheese

Louise the Big Cheese
Divine Diva  
Illustrated by: Diane Goode
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Ages: 5 and up
List Price: $32.00

Description

Let's face it. Every girl has a little big cheese in her.

Louise Cheese is no different. Night and day, Louise dreams of the limelight, lots of fuss, the red carpet, and more than anything to be the one and only "Big Cheese."

Finally, Louise gets her chance when her teacher, Mrs. Little, announces a casting call for the role of Cinderella in the school play. It's Louise's chance to be a star...or is it?

With humor and heart and just a little attitude, Elise Primavera and Diane Goode tell a story that will inspire the inner big cheese in all who read it.

How did you come to write this book?

Auntie Claus I met at the cosmetics counter at Saks in 1996 while I was living in New York City. Who wouldn't make a story after meeting a character like her? Louise the Big Cheese grew out of the idea that striving to be a big cheese is a great concept but it doesn't always translate into making one happy.

Learn more about Elise Primavera
"A perfect pairing to Kevin Henkes's Lilly's Big Day (2006), this book presents a protagonist with whom many a mini-diva will be able to identify from page one. Goode's liquid lines and sympathetic characters give the text the pop it deserves. Charming from endpapers to endpapers."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Louise makes a splash as a girl who knows what she wants (stardom!) and sees the future

(Broadway!) but can also deal with reality . . . Cue applause."  -- Booklist

 
-- Booklist

 
Asheville Citizen-Times, June 28, 2010
...new picture books for kids continue the tradition by celebrating the mysterious fascination kids have with shoes. In Elise Primavera's 'Louise the Big Cheese and the La-Di-Da Shoes,' little Louise Cheese defends her choice of fancy shoes to ...