![]() Banks being overly-involved in suffragette activities, is of course entirely Disney. Banks being a cold father (rather than merely a Victorian father) and Mrs. ![]() I think those who have never read the book and are judging by Travers' known unhappiness with the movie, will be startled to see how similar the basic events of the story and the movie are. It's a charming story, and well worth reading whether you are in the intended age group, or long removed from that. She is brusque and high-handed, and promises only that she will stay until the wind changes, but magical things happen all around her. Mary Poppins arrives, apparently on the East Wind, at 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, when the Banks family is in dire need of a new nanny, Katie Nanna having quit and departed quite abruptly. Recently it has gotten a flurry of new attention due to the new Disney movie about making the Mary Poppins movie, Saving Mr. ![]() ![]() This is a story most of us know, whether from the book or from the 1964 Disney movie. ![]()
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