Pish Posh

Interesting story if a bit over the top. But the typos and the prose inconsistencies, the endless scenes needing good trims...this book should have been much better than it was.

This is a great book I love it but I would like it longer . Also I love Annabelle a lot

One thing I liked about this book is how much the girl changes. She really realizes what she's like to other people. If you like a story where a child makes all the decisions you WILL like this book!!!!!!

I loved this book. It was just a little confusing at parts. The kindle edition is great! You should really get this. Good for book reports.

This book is awesome especially the plot. Clara is an amazing character and I love all of her rooms!!!!! Anonymous

Great present for the kiddos!

Pish Posh is the place to be in New York City. Superstars and wannabes dine at the aptly named restaurant, craving attention and enjoying the fabulous food. Each person secretly hopes that he or she will not be deemed the next Nobody, and everyone there fears the person who would deliver that verdict: an eleven year old little girl.Clara Frankofile, daughter of the Pish Posh owners and chef, wears a black dress everyday (she has hundreds of the same outfit) and looks down on people through her tinted sunglasses. What she says goes. An actress who walked in as the It Girl may be declared a Nobody before she is done with her meal.Though I like Ellen Potter's Olivia Kidney series, I found myself wanting more from Pish Posh than I ultimately got. It begins as a sarcastic take on society and celebrity, which I liked, but the focus changed not once but twice before the story was through. Based on the jacket summary, I thought I was in for a cross between the book So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld and the film To Catch a Thief, as Clara befriends a girl barely older than her who is a jewel thief. It then became a story about past lives, in a way. I won't spoil the ending, but I will say it fell a little short of my expectations. Still, Potter delivers descriptive and funny writing, and I'll certainly continue to pick up her novels.

I read this book because my 8 yr old (advanced reader) was drawn in by the cover and wanted to read it. I didn't let her: I never saw it coming, but the climax of the book was too brutal for her. (A man is hanged - and it's described - because of a false accusation made by a woman who had started to fall in love with him. She realizes he didn't do it as she sees him being hanged.)The hanging scene also seems a bit incongruous with the rest of the book, which doesn't take itself too seriously and has a much lighter tone.The rest of the book was mostly good fun for kids. The main character has her own apartment (at age 11), with various fantasy rooms (a beach room with real waves and sand, a tree climbing room with a real tree, etc.). She wields a great deal of power in the adult world, wearing dark sunglasses and black dresses as she decides who to ban from her parents' restaurant. She meets a girl her age who is a professional thief, likewise powerful and very competent. The two of them find themselves drawn into friendship. Their bad behavior has only emotional consequences (i.e. guilt). Still, I found this book to be an enjoyable flight of fantasy, a power trip for kids.