| Description |
191 pages, col. ill.; 22 cm. |
| Note |
Contents: East Wind - The Day Out - Laughing Gas - Miss Lark's Andrew - The Dancing Cow - Bad Tuesday - The Bird Woman - Mrs. Corry - John and Barabara's Story - Full Moon - Christmas Shopping - West Wind. |
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Illustrations: Mary Poppins, by Bert - "I shall wear two overcoats" - Holding her hat on with one hand and carrying a bag in the other - "I'm the Waiter, you know!" - There they were, all together, up in the air - Miss Persimmon was stumbling through the sir - Crept closer to her and fell asleep - Andrew - Miss Lark was running about in her garden - Jane was in bed with earache - "What have we here, ho?" - Kicked Mrs. Brill very hard on the shin - The compass - Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral - The birds go creeping underneath - Gave one each to John and Barbara - One end on the earth and the other leaning on the sky - John and Barbara - "Huh!" said the Starling. "Look at 'em!" - Admiral Boom - Forming themselves into a ring round Mary Poppins - The Hamadyrad - She wrenched herself away from her glorious reflection - "Ere! Come down! We can't have this kind of thing!" - Maia - Each seized a Twin and rushed back to the window - Floating away over the roofs of the houses. |
| Summary |
Mary Poppins is an extraordinary lady who can slide up banisters and turn a sane world topsy-turvy. When she arrived in 1934 on a high East Wind, delighted reviewers at once added her name to those who have become a heritage of English literature. |
| Added Author |
Shepard, Mary, 1909-2000.
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