Mary Poppins Comes Back

Mary Poppins Comes Back
P. L. Travers

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery in time for the release of the 2018 movie.Just when Jane and Michael Banks thought she was gone forever, Mary Poppins floats back into their lives on the end of a kite string, bringing a whole host of wonderful adventures with her.More than eighty years since we first met Mary Poppins, this original, classic story is still charming readers and transporting new fans into the mysterious world of everyone’s favourite magical nanny.Enjoy the second book in the iconic series.

Copyright (#ulink_0d71bf1e-5995-5910-890e-885e65c4fa07)

First published in Great Britain by Peter Davies 1935

First published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1958

This edition published by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2016 HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

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Text copyright © The Trustees of the P.L. Travers Will Trust 1935

Illustrations copyright © Mary Shepard 1935

Cover design copyright © HarperCollins Children’s Books 2018 Cover design by Katie Everson

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to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work.

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Source ISBN: 9780008205751

Ebook Edition © 2016 ISBN: 9780007397792

Version: 2018-06-28

To PIP This Keepsake

CONTENTS

Cover (#uab8ea09b-7869-5ace-9954-6f4e8f0d0eec)

Title Page (#u4b24f8b0-a2f2-5ab0-a02e-f7488775f3a2)

Copyright (#u24b8b3a5-a9c3-561a-afdf-bf158ed7507d)

Dedication (#u4fa5b125-f55c-5818-bf78-2988354e06b2)

Chapter One – The Kite (#u9bcce391-1082-5642-bd8a-02a4ceddfb2c)

Chapter Two – Miss Andrew’s Lark (#u57676431-6639-5c70-886f-172819ed6c1d)

Chapter Three – Bad Wednesday (#u258a7a29-3837-57e6-819b-9c5667471302)

Chapter Four – Topsy Turvy (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Five – The New One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six – Robertson Ay’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven – The Evening Out (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight – Balloons and Balloons (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine – Nellie-Rubina (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten – Merry-go-round (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading … (#litres_trial_promo)

Have you read all the original Mary Poppins adventures? (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter One (#ulink_0ef12e1c-c6a7-5b21-bb5b-ee28b226e3d1)

THE KITE (#ulink_0ef12e1c-c6a7-5b21-bb5b-ee28b226e3d1)

IT WAS ONE of those mornings when everything looks very neat and bright and shiny, as though the world had been tidied up overnight.

In Cherry Tree Lane the houses blinked as their blinds went up, and the thin shadows of the Cherry Trees fell in dark stripes across the sunlight. But there was no sound anywhere, except for the tingling of the Ice Cream Man’s bell as he wheeled his cart up and down.

STOP ME AND BUY ONE

said the placard in front of the cart. And presently a Sweep came round the corner of the Lane and held up his black, sweepy hand.

The Ice Cream Man went tingling up to him.

“Penny one,” said the Sweep. And he stood leaning on his bundle of brushes as he licked out the Ice Cream with the tip of his tongue. When it was all gone, he gently wrapped the cone in his handkerchief and put it in his pocket.

“Don’t you eat cones?” asked the Ice Cream Man, very surprised.

“No. I collect them!” said the Sweep. And he picked up his brushes and went in through Admiral Boom’s front gate, because there was no Tradesman’s Entrance.

The Ice Cream Man wheeled his cart up the Lane again and tingled, and the stripes of shadow and sunlight fell on him as he went.

“Never knew it so quiet before!” he murmured, gazing from right to left, and looking out for customers.

At that very moment, a loud voice sounded from Number Seventeen. The Ice Cream Man cycled hurriedly up to the gate, hoping for an order.

“I won’t stand it! I simply will not stand any more!” shouted Mr Banks, striding angrily from the front door to the foot of the stairs and back again.