Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1) (Voyager/HBJ Book) (Coleccion Juventud)

by Dr P L Travers

The wind brings two English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister and introduces them to some delightful people and experiences.

• ISBN10: 0899663907
• ISBN13: 9780899663906
• Publish Date: 1 October 1997 (first published 1 December 1934)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Imprint: Buccaneer Books
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 206
• Language: English

Reviews

[Kat @ Novels & Waffles]

💛Full review to come. 💛

“Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.”

Things I Liked:

✑ A delightful mix of the mundane and the miraculous
✑ Shows that magic can be found anywhere, anytime, and made me wish I could still talk to starlings
✑ The writing style was fun

Things I Liked... Less:

✑ Ummmm...so Mary Poppins is actually kind of unlikeable? *gasp*
✑ It's just not the same without the catchy show tunes, the perfectly choreographed dance numbers, and the beautifully animated cutscenes.

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[lindsey]

I feel like I may have missed something. Why is this such a beloved book? Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more as a child.

[clairelm]

I knew when I started this that it would be different to the Disney film. I wasn't expecting the extent of that difference though.
In the film, everybody's favourite nanny is firm but fair, in the book she is completely different. The children, however (although more of them) are as lovely as they are in the film.
Mary Poppins is strict, cold and uncaring. She's also incredibly vain. Every time they go somewhere, she's looking in shop windows admiring herself. The children's curiosity is met with snappy remarks and the kind of behaviour that would make any child curl up and lose interest in the world around them. She takes them on adventures and accuses them of lying when they mention them. Even a compliment from Jane or Michael is taken as an affront to her.
I have no idea why the children love her so much (aside from the fun adventures) but I couldn't bring myself to like her, let alone love her like I do the Julie Andrews version.