![]() ![]() Four more stories followed at intervals: Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935), Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943), Mary Poppins in the Park (1952), Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982) and Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1989). It was translated into 20 languages and became a world-wide bestseller when Walt Disney made it into a film starring Julie Andrews. Travers' five Mary Poppins books, entitled simply Mary Poppins, was published in 1934 and became an immediate success with children and adults alike. Travers (the initials stand for Pamela Lyndon) is best known as an author of children's books, in particular as the creator of Mary Poppins, one of the most original and universally loved characters in modern children's fiction: a "cosmic nanny" / "guardian angel" who arrives one day out of the blue, as if sent from Heaven, in Cherry Tree Lane to look after the Banks children, Jane and Michael. ![]()
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