When the Banks children of Cherry Tree Lane need a governess, Mary Poppins arrives on a high East wind. Prim and efficient - and not a little vain – this proper British nanny would never feed her charges sugar with their medicine. As for singing and making a spectacle of herself in public – why, the very idea!
The fact that magic always happens around Mary, she ignores and denies, but as soon as the everyday world is safely given the slip, it does... and on special occasions, right out in public. (You'd be surprised how many ordinary-looking characters are at home out of the ordinary.) In case you're wondering, yes, there is Bert the Match Man, with his magic pictures, and there is a lucky chimney sweep in the Lane as well.
All of the Poppins books are delightfully illustrated by Mary Shepard, daughter of A. A. Milne illustrator Ernest Shepard.
The series
1934Mary Poppins 
1935Mary Poppins Comes Back 
1935Mary Poppins in the Park 
1943Mary Poppins Opens the Door 
1952The Gingerbread Shop 
1952Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party 
1952Stories from Mary Poppins 
1953The Magic Compass 
1962Mary Poppins from A-Z 
1975Mary Poppins in the Kitchen 
1982Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane 
1988Mary Poppins and the House Next Door 
1999Mary Poppins and the House Next Door and Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane 
1999Mary Poppins Omnibooks Be the first reviewer
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