By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture,
Saving Mr. Banks. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.
It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a
most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide
up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!
This book is part of a book series called Mary Poppins .
This book has been graded for interest at 10-12 years.
There are 210 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Cengage Learning, Inc .
P. L. Travers was born in 1899 in Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and was one of three sisters. 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.
This book contains the following story:
Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane
When the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take the children on extraordinary adventures. Mary Poppins is strict but fair, and soon Michael and Jane are whisked off to a funfair inside a pavement picture and on many more outings with their wonderful new nanny! Needless to say, when at last the wind changes and she flies away, the children are devastated. But the magic of Mary Poppins will stay with the Banks family forever.
This book is in the following series:
Puffin Storybooks
Mary Poppins
Nanny Mary Poppins is blown by the East Wind to the Banks's household at Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane to care for their children. When she is happy her work is done, the West Wind carries her away.
