Mary Poppins (Collins Modern Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008205787 ISBN 13: 9780008205782

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 1877

Synopsis

This slipcase, using original artwork, contains all six original Mary Poppins stories: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Mary Poppins in the Park, Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (2-in-1 edition). All magical children's classics, its the perfect collectable gift. When their new nanny, Mary Poppins, arrives on a gust of the East Wind, greets their mother, and slides up the banister, Jane and Michaels lives are turned magically upside down. You can now read all six of these wonderfully original tales about Jane and Michaels adventures with the magical Mary Poppins. In each book Mary takes the children on the most extraordinary outings: to a fun fair inside a pavement picture; to visit Uncle Andrew who floats up to the ceiling when he laughs; on a spectacular trip to see the Man-in-the-Moon! With her strict but fair, no-nonsense attitude, combined with amazing magical powers, things are never straightforward with Mary Poppins! But she has only promised to stay until the wind changes Beautifully presented in a slipcase with original artwork, this is the perfect gift to be enjoyed all year round.

About this title

About the Author:

P.L. Travers, born in 1899, grew up on a sugar plantation in 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. She recieved an OBE in 1977, and died in 1996.

Review:

"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 Mary Poppins is the Good Fairy, whom we are all seeking" Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
• Publication date: 1877
• ISBN 10: 0008205787
• ISBN 13: 9780008205782
• Binding: Paperback