Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane
core novel 1982 Mary Poppins
Record
| First published | 1982 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.88 (2,315 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 96 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780440051374 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
On Midsummer's Eve, the one night of the year when, as the Park Keeper knows, anything may happen, Mary Poppins leads the Banks children to the farthest corner of the park for a late picnic, with the Park Keeper and Miss Lark and the neighbours of Cherry Tree Lane drawn in behind her. There, among the herbs she has sent them to gather, the sky's own inhabitants come down to join the party: the Constellations, Orion and Castor and Pollux and the rest, who in the Mary Poppins books have always been her acquaintances, and the figures of the lane's ordinary life mingle with them for a single night that no one, next morning, will admit to remembering. A single long episode written thirty years after the fourth book, and the first of two late returns to the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Mary Poppins
- Series: Mary Poppins core; position 5 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 5 of 6: previous Mary Poppins in the Park (1952) · next Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)
Sources
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