Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988) Travers wrote various books such as "Aunt Sass", "The Fox at the Manger', "I Go by Sea, I Go by Land" and others, but she is known mainly for her Mary Poppins series.Īs early as 1926, Travers published a short story, "Mary Poppins and the Match Man", which introduced the nanny character of Mary Poppins and Bert the street artist.
The books insightfully explored the fraught relationship between children and adults through a combination of mythological allusion and biting social critique. Travers, in full Pamela Lyndon Travers, original name Helen Lyndon Goff, (born August 9, 1899, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia-died April 23, 1996, London, England).Īustralian English actress, journalist and writer known for her Mary Poppins books, about a magical nanny. This is the fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who, with her little brother James, is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America.P.L. Oh, please let us come back soon, please.' I will write down everything about it because we shall be so much older when we come back that I will never remember it if I do not. Now I am going to write a Diary because we are going to America because of the War. Then Father said quietly, "Meg, they must go!"' After that there was a terrible silence and I knew that Father and Mother were looking at each other in the darkness and I felt myself getting small and tight inside. Then suddenly there were five loud explosions. You could hear it drumming and drumming like a big bee in a flower, buroom, buroom, buroom, round and round in the air above the house. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an English plane and we all woke up. Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over.
'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all. A moving story of a little girl and her brother, who must leave their parents and home in the Sussex countryside for safety in America. First published in 1941, this children's classic, by the author of Mary Poppins, has been unavailable for many years.
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