mary poppins and mary poppins comes back pamela lyndon travers

Whether she is gluing stars to the sky, having a tea party on the ceiling, or dancing under a full moon at the zoo, she leaves the children baffled and perplexed by her actions - never ceasing to deny that anything out-of-the-ordinary has taken place. In the series of episodes that make up Mary Poppins, she takes the children on adventures that both delight and amaze them. She has the complete loyalty of her charges - Jane and Michael Banks and their younger brother and sister. She has been called stern, vain, proud, no-nonsense, unsentimental. Mary Poppins has confounded critics over the years by being full of contradictions and impossible to characterize in a few simple words. Critics have praised Travers for continuing to expand and explore her themes in the later books and for the enduring liveliness and unpredictability of her main character. Travers went on to write eight more books about Mary Poppins, including Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935), Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982), and Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988). It was the basis for a 1964 Disney film that had tremendous success despite its lack of favor with those loyal to the original book. Mary Poppins was published in 1934 and has since been translated into twenty-five languages and sold copies in the millions. Pamela Lyndon Travers was as unwilling to “explain” herself as a writer as she was to explain the staunch and unbendable character for whom she is so well known - a British nanny in a 1930s household.

Mary poppins and mary poppins comes back pamela lyndon travers