I have to say, if you've grown up with the movie, reading the book is odd! Mary Poppins is extremely short-tempered and bossy. It's somewhat off-putting!
Mary Poppins is such an enigmatic character. Look at the reviews here (both positive and negative) and you’ll find that her defining characteristics seem to be vanity and irritability – leaving many to wonder why on earth her young charges adore her so much. I have a few theories, but I really th...
Do they write children's books like this anymore? Mary Poppins is sharp, stern, and vain. She is the anti-Julie Andrews. I liked the movie fine (before I read the book), but the real Mary Poppins makes the movie character look insipid and saccharine. (When did everything for children become so sweet...
I loved the twins. And then years later, I read Thornton Wilders' Infancy. A great minds thinking alike sort of deal.And I'm still disappointed that the twins were left out of the disney movie.
For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, Pride and Prejudice (1) versus Mary Poppins (32) NARRATOR: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an impecunious father with four unmarried daughters is in urgent need of a magic nanny. And so it came to pass that Miss Mary Poppins took up resid...
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