Mary Poppins [Hardcover]

By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks.

 

From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed.

It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes amostunusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slideupbanisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!

The first book about the beloved nanny Mary Poppins, who is practically perfect in every way!

When Mary Poppins is about, her young charges can never tell where the real world merges into make-believe. Neither can the reader, and that is one of the hallmarks of good fantasy. --The New York Times

East ­Wind
  
If you want to find Cherry­-­Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross­-­roads. He will push his helmet slightly to one side, scratch his head thoughtfully, and then he will point his huge white­-­gloved finger and say: First to your right, second to your left, sharp right again, and youre there. Good­-­morning.
 
           And sure enough, if you follow his directions exactly, youwillbe thereright in the middle of Cherry­-­Tree Lane, where the houses run down one side and the Park runs down the other and the cherry­-­trees go dancing right down the ­middle.
 
           If you are looking for Number Seventeenand it is more than likely that you will be, for this book is all about that particular houseyou will very soon finl#