My Goodreads review: Mary Poppins

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Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I originally read & reread this book as a grade school kid, an underage Anglophile trying to give herself a British childhood in Wyoming.

When Audible Plus offered it free, I jumped at the chance to experience it again. And I'm glad I did, though some parts are pretty dated (published in 1934, & set in an earlier era) and I missed the wonderful illustrations. If you've only met Mary Poppins in that 1960s movie -- that was not Mary Poppins! The original character is much quirkier & definitely more disturbing, just as actual fairy tales have little to do with Disney.

Recommended for fantasy-loving Anglophiles of any age, & grown-up fans of writers such as Neil Gaiman.



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