Mary Poppins and the House Next Door
core novel 1988 Mary Poppins
Record
| First published | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (1,759 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 96 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780385297493 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
It is a day like any other at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane until a telegram arrives with momentous news: Miss Andrew, the Holy Terror, Mr. Banks's dreaded childhood governess, is coming to live in the house next door. Number Eighteen has always stood empty, and so it has become the treasure of the lane: each neighbour has furnished it in imagination with the tenant of their dreams, and now the dream is to be replaced by the one person everyone fears. With Miss Andrew comes Luti, a boy from the South Seas whom she is "civilising", and who is quietly dying of homesickness. The last Mary Poppins book, written when its author was nearly ninety, is less about the nanny than about the lane itself, and about how, in her own magical, whimsical way, she sends a homesick child home.
Where it sits
- Universe: Mary Poppins
- Series: Mary Poppins core; position 6 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: P. L. Travers
Notes
- From the series record (Mary Poppins): P. L. Travers's six story books about the magical nanny of Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, and the Banks children (1934-1988), illustrated throughout by Mary Shepard. The first three follow her arrivals and departures; the later three are set within those visits.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Mary Poppins: position 6 of 6: previous Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
Sources
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