Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection (#1 4 Boxset)

Author: P. L. Travers

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Price : $69.98 AUD
ISBN : 9780008205782
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Imprint : Harper Element
Contained items : Contains 5 Paperbacks
Weight (g) : 0.782
Publication date : June 2016
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 69.99
Availability date : December 2016
Out of print date : October 2023
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Product Type : books

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Author : P. L. Travers
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Bind : Multiple-item retail product, slip-cased
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.912
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Pages : 928
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9780008205782

Description

An exquisite flagship gift edition of an iconic classic, illustrated by the current Children's Laureate, Lauren Child. (This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase if in doubt.) When Mary Poppins arrives at their house on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, Jane and Michael Banks's lives are turned magically upside down. Who better to reimagine this endearing children's classic than today's most instantly recognisable and best-loved artist-illustrator? Lauren Child brings the magic of Mary Poppins into the hearts and imagination of readers and fans new and old. First published in 1964, Mary Poppins has been delighting readers ever since, both in books and on film. This stunning deluxe edition is published ahead of the release of the hotly anticipated Disney film Mary Poppins Returns.

Reviews

"Like all great children's classics, Mary Poppins is frightening and sad as well as magic and very funny" Observer "Absolutely alive, and aglint with magic" Walter de la Mare Mary Poppins is the Good Fairy, whom we are all seeking" Times Literary Supplement

Author description

P.L. Travers, born in 1899, grew up on a sugar plantation in Australia, and was one of three sisters. She worked as a secretary, a dancer and an actress, but writing was P.L. Travers's real love, and for many years she was a journalist. It was while recuperating from a serious illness that she wrote Mary Poppins. She recieved an OBE in 1977, and died in 1996.

Acknowledgement of country

The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.