Searching for Mary Poppins

Searching for Mary Poppins
Author: Susan Davis
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-09-25
Genre: Mothers
ISBN: 9780452288768

Twenty-five bestselling and award-winning female writers explore the emotional minefield of mother-nanny relationships.

Searching for Mary Poppins

Searching for Mary Poppins
Author: Susan Davis
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2007-09-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 144062898X

With wit, sensitivity, and unflinching honesty, Searching for Mary Poppins brings together twenty-five of today’s leading woman writers—including Marisa de los Santos, Susan Cheever, Joyce Maynard, and Jacquelyn Mitchard—to explore the emotional minefield of mother-nanny relationships. From Daphne Merkin on the challenges of hiring a nanny after having been raised by one to Lauren Slater on her regret at having “given her mothering away,” the collection’s stunningly original pieces offer rare insight into the complex issues that emerge when a mother turns the care of her child over to a stranger. Raising questions that reach beyond money, race, class, and gender into the darkest areas of love and fear that a mother feels, this book ultimately provides hope, solace, and welcome perspective on this unique relationship.

Mary Poppins from A to Z

Mary Poppins from A to Z
Author: Pamela Lyndon Travers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152058340

Features twenty-six vignettes, one for each letter of the alphabet, starring Mary Poppins and other characters from the Mary Poppins novels.

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins
Author: P. L. Travers
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 1027
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0544574753

The first four books featuring the world’s most beloved nanny, plus delightful bonus features! Since the 1934 publication of Mary Poppins, stories of this magical nanny have delighted children and adults for generations. This collection includes the first four tales by P. L. Travers, illustrated by Mary Shepard: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, and Mary Poppins in the Park. Also including a foreword by Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, who explores the significant differences between the book and movie versions, and an essay by P. L. Travers about the writing of Mary Poppins, this collection lets you travel with Mary on the east wind to Cherry Tree Lane in these stories that inspired films, a stage show, and young imaginations the world over. “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

Mary Poppins Comes Back

Mary Poppins Comes Back
Author: Pamela Lyndon Travers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152017194

Mary Poppins comes back on the end of a kite string, stays with the Banks family for a while, and then disappears on a merry-go-round horse.

Secrets in Translation

Secrets in Translation
Author: Margo Sorenson
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781947548206

A fictional celebration of Italian life and culture where seventeen-year-old Alessandra returns for the summer to Italy, where she grew up. While confronting organized crime in the picturesque small town of Positano and babysitting a rebellious twelve year old, Alessandra loses her heart to a handsome Italian boy who hides secrets of his own.

Mary Poppins Opens the Door

Mary Poppins Opens the Door
Author: P. L. Travers
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 000740431X

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery in time for the release of the 2018 movie.

Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane

Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane
Author: Pamela Lyndon Travers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1982
Genre: Herbs
ISBN: 9780006743071

Going to the Park for a supper picnic proves to be more than just the expected treat when Mary Poppins is around The strangest people turn up, and Jane and Michael have a wonderful time.

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
Author: Giorgia Grilli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135868026

The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.