Mary Poppins in the Park
core novel 1952 Mary Poppins
Record
| First published | 1952 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (7,308 ratings, collected 2026-10-06) |
| Page count | 240 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780544513846 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Mary Poppins "cannot forever arrive and depart", as Travers writes in her introduction, so the fourth book sets six self-contained adventures in the middle of the earlier visits, all of them on outings in the park opposite Cherry Tree Lane. The children have tea with the characters of a fairy tale who climb out of the book; Michael's shadow runs away on Hallowe'en and all the shadows of the lane dance together; the Park Keeper's small world of rules and litter is turned upside down by the nanny; a gentleman's talking cat, a statue of a goddess and the Lane's prosperous neighbours all take their turn; and the children learn, again, that nothing extraordinary ever happened, if you ask Mary Poppins. The last of the four books in the series' main sequence, published seventeen years after the first.
Where it sits
- Universe: Mary Poppins
- Series: Mary Poppins core; position 4 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 4 of 6: previous Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943) · next Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
Sources
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