Mary Poppins - Hardcover

Travers, P. L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0001811010 ISBN 13: 9780001811010

Verlag: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 1998

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The first in the famous series about the best known nanny in children’s literature. Mary Poppins comes to the Banks’ household like a breath of fresh air (literally).

Magic and timeless storytelling.

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P.L. Travers was born in 1899 in Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and was one of three sisters.She worked as a secretary, a dancer and an actress, but writing was P.L. Travers’s real love, and for many years she was a journalist. It was while recuperating from a serious illness that she wrote Mary Poppins – “to while away the days, but also to put down something that had been in my mind for a long time”, she said. She recieved an OBE in 1977, and died in 1996.

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Jane and Michael saw their mother coming out of the drawing room with a visitor following her. They could see that the newcomer had shiny black hair – "Rather like a wooden Dutch doll," whispered Jane – and she was thin, with large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue eyes.

Mary Poppins descends unexpectedly on Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane from her own mysterious world, blown by the wind and supported by her precious parrot-headed umbrella. At first, Jane and Michael don't know what to make of her, but then, little by little, she introduces them to her world – to Uncle Andrew, who can float in the air; to the Match Man, who draws magic pictures on the pavement; and to Mrs Corry's most unusual shop, which disappears as soon as they've left it.

In the months following her arrival Mary Poppins becomes so much part of the family that the children can't imagine being without her – except that she has only promised to stay until the wind changes. And Jane and Michael, aware of the weather as never before, can only hope that the wind will 'always' blow from the east…

P.L. Travers was born in Australia. By the time of the publication of 'Mary Poppins' (which was written while recovering from an illness) her reputation as poet and critic was already established. She went on to write several other books about her famous creation, including 'Mary Poppins Opens the Door' and 'Mary Poppins in the Park.'

Mary Shepard, daughter of Ernest Shepard, the illustrator of 'Winnie the Pooh,' drew the first Mary Poppins some sixty years ago. Her illustrations have made the inhabitants of Cherry Tree Lane familiar in almost every country of the world.

"Like all great children's classics, 'Mary Poppins' is frightening and sad as well as magic and very funny."
The Observer

"The amazing achievement of the Mary Poppins series is the way in which it captures with such simplicity and conviction the child's world of fantasy in which nothing is impossible, and the magic which happens in the imagination and is always about to happen in the actual world. The genius and inspiration of P.L. Travers lies in having captured this borderland of fancy with absolute verisimilitude and with never a suggestion of adult invention or condescension."
Roger Lancelyn Green

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0001811010
• ISBN 13: 9780001811010
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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