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Mary Poppins

By: P. L. Travers
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!

Read by Olivia Colman, this stunning performance lifts P. L Travers’s words off the page, transporting us back to a time where classic storytelling is at the heart of any story.

When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the Banks children, their lives go topsy-turvy and are changed forever.

More than eighty years since we first met Mary Poppins, this original, classic story is still charming listeners and transporting new fans into the mysterious world of everyone’s favourite magical nanny.

Evocatively read by the Oscar-winning star of the hit series The Crown Olivia Colman, this exquisite audio recording brings this classic story to life and is perfect for every family to share.

©1934 P. L. Travers (P)1934 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Classics
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Critic reviews

“Like all great children’s classics Mary Poppins is frightening and sad as well as magic and very funny.”
The Observer

“Absolutely alive, and aglint with magic.”
Walter de la Mare
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The story itself is one of the most whimsical, weird, charming, moving stories I've ever read and the performance of the reader was IMPECCABLE. I was constantly sucked in and felt every emotion along the way. Fantastic.

AMAZING INTERPRETATION

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Such a delightful book. Olivia Colman brings to life the various characters in this book. Funny surprising and rich.

Classique remarquable

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Its a great book. I thought Marry Poppins was in my room!
Love this story, and maybe Mary Poppins will come back.

AMAZING

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Better than the movie even and the movie is great, every child deserves their Mary Poppins. Got to keep writing because it’s 15 words minimum even though I’m pretty sure I’ve written more than the 15 word minimum.

Practically perfect in every way

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Some 37 years ago, my three years old daughter was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer and, together, we spent most of the next fifteen months in near isolation in a small hospital room as she endured the radical chemotherapy, mostly bed bound and and very ill. But it was, strangely, a happy time. With little else that we could do, we watched video films, including that of Mary Poppins which we saw at least once every day. I became word perfect.
But I never read the original book until now.

The film and the book are, predictably, not the same: there is much more brightness and laughter in the film, the Nanny who agreed to stay in the Banks' household 'until the wind changed' less stern and self centred, too. Yet the magic of childhood and mysteries beyond the everyday vision is decidedly there and, quite honestly, I loved this little 85 years old story, in this case narrated by Olivia Colman, a very British reading, clear, nicely modulated, and well articulated with character voices (and, thank goodness, no dreadful chimney sweep accents).

Such fun. Recommended..

"She's something special, you see."

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Olivia Colman's reading of Mary Poppins is simply magical! Our family loved every minute of it.

I <3 Olivia Colman!!!!

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A book about children whose mother is unemployed but hires a nanny nevertheless. Nanny gaslights children most of the time and children grow attached to aforementioned smug and snappy woman. Olivia Colman is the best narrator ever.

Better than the movie, hardly an achievement

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