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| Mary Poppins Comes Back / PL Travers : 4 of 5 | |
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4.19.2004
10:51 PM | Link |
 It was so much fun to read the further of adventures of Mary Poppins and the Banks children, even if Mary is much more bitchy in the books. There are several more books to come in the series, so I think I can predict the formula: Mary arrives unexpectedly in Chapter One, Mary leaves unexpectedly in the last chapter, and in between all kinds of amazing things happen, but Mary denies it completely and scolds the children (who later find evidence that "it" really did happen!). The many stand-alone chapters are full of creative stories - people flying around holding balloons, Mary and friends bringing Spring by hanging cardboard flowers and butterflies, Jane traveling into the scene painted on a bowl (and nearly getting trapped there), the new baby (there are now five Banks children in the books) talking to birds and telling how she was "created", plus a funny story where Mary helps a caged lark switch places with its captor! Mary arrives on a kite this time, and leaves on a madly spinning Merry-Go-Round that flies into the sky - I'm sure she'll be back soon.Labels: books |
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