Mary Poppins by P L Travers

Mary Poppins by P L Travers

The Banks children, Jane and Michael, change nannies just about as often as most people change their clothes. It’s not that they’re naughty, exactly – just awkward. Everyone in the household is at their wits’ end with them – until Mary Poppins arrives… This, the first book about Mary Poppins, will be familiar to everyone who has seen the film. For it is in this book that Jane and Michael draw up their advertisement for a nanny, and Mary Poppins appears out of the sky with her parrot-headed umbrella which talks. She is strict but fair, slides happily up the banisters, and takes the children on the most extraordinary outings – to a funfair inside a pavement picture; to uncle Andrew who sails up to the ceiling when he laughs – which she firmly denies afterwards. Needless to say, the children are devastated when she leaves, but by then, they and their parents are far more of a family than they ever were before Mary Poppins appeared.

“Like all great children’s classics Mary Poppins is frightening and sad as well as magic and very funny”
Observer

“Absolutely alive, and aglint with magic.”
Walter de la Mare

P.L. Travers was born in 1899 in Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and was one of three sisters. She was brought up simply, but traditionally, with a cook upon whom much of the character of Mary Poppins is based. She began her writing career in Australia, publishing many poems, then came to England and wrote for newspapers in Ireland and England. She began Mary Poppins ‘out of the blue’, while lying ill in bed one day. It was published in 1934, was an immediate success and was followed by another five books.

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ISBN 13	9780006747871
ISBN 10	0006747876
Titel	Mary Poppins
Autor	P L Travers
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	HarperCollins Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-04-06
Seitenanzahl	224
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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