Mary Poppins
By P.L. Travers
The kids have been on a Mary Poppins kick for over two weeks now. Out of nowhere, they will start singing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious for no reason. I can't completely blame them, because I rather like the film, but goodness gracious.
When my sister got a CD player when we were young, I wanted some music of my own. The three CDs I received that Christmas were Snow White, the soundtrack to The Mask (it was the early 90's, give me a break) and the soundtrack to Mary Poppins. Then in high school our big production in dance was a medley of Mary Poppins; my best friend and I were chimney sweeps, don't be jealous. The kids liked the new Mary Poppins as well, but even though I love Emily Blunt and Hamilton (Lin Manuel Miranda) I super didn't enjoy the new one, nor did I really think I think it needed to be made.
Since the little weirdos were on the Mary Poppins kick, I thought I would check out the original book so we all could listen to it. Libby (the audio book app) lets you have the book for fourteen days, which should have been plenty of time for us to listen to it. The kids didn't care for the book and I couldn't really blame them. When you are watching the movie, you’re like "holy smokes this is a lot of weird stuff going on", but because of Julie Andrew's Academy Award winning proformace and Dick Van Dyke you can look past it. But when you are reading the book, it comes of as just plain weird, and Mary Poppins is a bit of a poop. Maybe she gets better the longer the series goes on, there are seven books, but as for the first one, meh. I also kept thinking of the author and Walt Disney's feud and that kind of distracted me. I ended up listening to the last little bit by myself, just so I could return the book.
I guess I would recommend the book if you want to hear the source material for the movies, or want to read a classic to your kids.
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