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Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)

P.L. Travers

Start date: October 1, 2015

Finish date: October 31, 2015

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: October 2015 New School Group Read
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Jan 27, 2016 Manda rated it did not like it

I hated this book. And I'm shocked. I thought it would be delightful, a beloved classic. I mean, they made an entire series about Mary Poppins. And the movie was great, of course. I was wrong. I hated this book. This Mary Poppins wasn't practically perfect in everyway. She was rude and bitchy. The way she treated the children, the way she treated Burt, and retailers....horrible. ...more

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Oct 23, 2013 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, 2014, classics, e-book, children

It's fun to see the non-Disney version of Mary Poppins. She's certainly no Julie Andrews! She's ill tempered, cross, vain and plain rather than pretty - and yet the children obviously adore her.

I wasn't entirely enthralled with the story like I was with say Peter Pan but I can easily see how a child would love it and the episodic nature of the chapters make it great for bedtime story fodder. ...more

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