Mary Poppins Opens the Door (Harcourt Brace Young Classics) [Hardcover]

Dr. P. L. Travers (Author), Mary Shepard (Illustrator), P.L. Travers (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1997 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Harcourt Brace Young Classics

Mary Poppins returns, falling from the sky like a shooting star! Soon Mary and the kids are off on a new round of marvelous adventures. A visit to Mr. Twigley’s music box-filled attic, an encounter with the Marble Boy, a ride on Miss Calico’s enchanted candy canes--all part of an average day out with the world’s most beloved nanny.

Editorial Reviews

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"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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

P. L. TRAVERS (1899-1996) was a drama critic, travel essayist, reviewer, lecturer, and the creator of Mary Poppins. Ms. Travers wrote several other books for adults and children, but it is for the character of Mary Poppins that she is best remembered. MARY SHEPARD (1910-2000) was the daughter of Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the Winnie the Pooh books and The Wind in the Willows. She illustrated P. L. Travers's Mary Poppins books for more than fifty years.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (October 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0152017208
• ISBN-13: 978-0152017200
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,133,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars She's Baaack, September 2, 2007

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Jeanne Tassotto (Trapped in the Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Poppins Opens the Door (Hardcover)

This is the third book in the delightful Mary Poppins series. As the story opens it is Guy Fawkes Day and the Banks children are hoping to be able to celebrate in style but unfortunately their father is in a foul mood and their mother is struggling to manage the household. Nothing has gone right in the Banks house in a long time....not since Mary Poppins left. While at the park though she returns, floating down from the sky and suddenly Father is happier, Mother is able to manage the house and the children discover that they are having fun again as they, and their reader, gone on a series of magical adventures over the next few weeks.

The reader of this series is transportated by these stories in more ways than one, besides the imaginative stories themselves the forward to this one with it's references to the British holiday of Guy Fawkes Day and it's wartime nonobservance make it clear from the beginning that these stories are about another place and time.

The reading level of this volume is listed as 5th grade with an interest level from 8 to 12. Today schools typically assign much more sophisticated stories to 5th graders and Mary Poppins would definitely not be on the reading lists for the middle school set (11 and 12 year olds). More is the pity since this nonthreatening, lighthearted story is just the thing to convince a child that reading can be FUN!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars funny and exciting, January 24, 2007

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Melissa Sack (georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mary Poppins Opens the Door (Hardcover)

This is the third book in the Mary Poppins series. It's about all the adventures that the Banks children have with their nanny. In one adventure they go to the park and see a lady selling peppermint stick horses. They buy some and ride off into the sky! You never know what type of adventure Mary Poppins has in store for the kids!

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy Kindle edition, July 20, 2011

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This review is from: Mary Poppins Opens the Door (Hardcover)

This is a review for a kindle edition. I purchased all the Mary Poppins books.
The book itself is great classic and fun to read. But the kindle edition has so many typos. Amazon's Kindle edition has 2-3 typos every 5 to 10 pages!! They misspell character's names, actions and everything! Sometimes, the sentence makes no sense because it has couple typos in one sentence!
I want my money back.

I will list up some typos when my kindle is charged! (It says the kindle needs more than 30 mins to finish getting charged.)
But, Ok, here. I have one that I wrote down on my note.
"joking'11 only makes things worse." Location 625. What is Joking'eleven?? I googled. No answer! Just like that...there are so many typos.