Mary Poppins - P.L Travers - complete

Sometimes it's hard when something has been made into a movie. Depending on which one you grew up with, the other can never really reach the standard you expect it to. 

The book was good, and I imagine I would love to read it to my children. It had an Alice in Wonderland-like quality to its writing. Simple. Very creative. And you find yourself unable to decipher whether it is real or simply a dream or whether it is both real and imaginative. 

And honestly, I still find it hard to imagine Mary Poppins not being a musical :P I fell in love with the characters in the movie, Bert, Mary Poppins, the children. But in the book, this didn't happen. I wasn't attached in any way to the people it was about. Bert was barely even in it! 

All in all though, I did like it, and I would very much like to read it to my kids when I have them. 

3/5