Review: Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

After watching Saving Mr. Banks, I was expecting this book to "save Mr. Banks." Unfortunately, it does not; Mr. Banks is hardly mentioned in the book at all. I do not know if the other books in the series lead toward that, but I disliked the Mary Poppins character in this book so much, that I am having an internal battle with myself about whether I want to read the other three books.

Mary Poppins is nothing like the movie version. I have to give Walt Disney a lot of credit. He put some humanity into the movie version of Mary Poppins.

The adventures the children went on were just for the sake of having an adventure. I was somewhat expecting there to be "lessons learned" as the movie Mary Poppins and Saving Mr. Banks seemed to have/imply.

The upside to reading this book was that I was able to fill in a reading challenge prompt that I was struggling to fill in.

I read this book as part of the PopSugar Reading Challenge 2018 - A book with characters who are twins.


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