An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences. Children’s BOMC.
Each chapter is its own short story Some are really fun But there doesn’t seem to be an overarcing plot. The kids don’t seem to progress, nor Mary Poppons. And it’s kind of hard to see Marry Poppins’ redeeming qualities, or why the kids love her. She’s always so stern with them and others, and her kindness is usually through (playfully?) begrudged actions?
P. L. Travers (1899-1996) was a drama critic, travel essayist, reviewer, lecturer, and the creator of Mary Poppins. Ms. Travers wrote several other books for adults and children, but it is for the character of Mary Poppins that she is best remembered.
Mary Shepard (1910-2000) was the daughter of Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the Winnie the Pooh books and The Wind in the Willows. She illustrated P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins books for more than fifty years.
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