The Banks children, Jane and Michael, change nannies just about as often as most people change their clothes. Its not that theyre naughty, exactly just awkward. Everyone in the household is at their wits end with them until Mary Poppins arrives The Classic tale from P.L Travers.
This, the first book about Mary Poppins, will be familiar to everyone who has seen the film. For it is in this book that Jane and Michael draw up their advertisement for a nanny, and Mary Poppins appears out ...