Valerie Lawson

Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers (2013)

PL Travers is a far more interesting character to read than Mary Poppins is in her books. Mary Poppins is a demigod who's quite stuffy and cold to Jane and Michael. Disney's Mary Poppins does away with much of the undeserved harshness of the original character and adds greater levels of humanity ...