Dec. 29th, 2013

shewhomust: (puffin)
So, the great Mary Poppins re-read.

Do I need to say that if there can be spoilers, there will be? Mary Poppins arrives; she departs; in between, things happen. This holds true for more than the first book.

[livejournal.com profile] sartorias starts us off with a bit of throat-clearing. Even without going beyond the first few pages, she touches on two things that I wanted to talk about.

The illustrations )

The household )

The children )

The blurb of my copy of Mary Poppins, which is the Puffin reissue with the film tie-in cover, says "Specially commended for mothers, and for children from seven to eleven." I am not convinced by this.

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