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Mary Poppins returns, replacing an incoming skyrocket. In this chapter we first hear the idea that having one’s hand hand shaken by a chimney sweep is good luck. That point is made in the film in the earliest rendition of the song “Chim Chim Cher-ee”. It suggests that whoever wrote the screenplay had read for more than just the first Mary Poppins book.
— May 16, 2026 11:18AM
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Once again in the world that Trevors portrays there is real peril for those who treat things of magic with unworthy hands. To be forever condemned in a music box environment for what you thought was your dearest wish is a terrible thing.
— May 16, 2026 03:25PM
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It’s a wonderful thing to imagine that every living thing has its own melody music. Again very much tied to the Romantics, who loved the Aeolian Harp. I had to look up Jan’s piece “oranges and lemons” but the melody was still recognizable when I found it. “Pop Goes the Weasel “ seems an odd choice for Mary Poppins.
— May 16, 2026 03:21PM
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In this chapter we meet Mr. Twigley, another cousin of Mary Poppins who works with musical boxes and is gifted (or cursed) with 7 magic wishes. The spell comes around every 90 years. Twigley claims to be Methuselah‘s grandfather. (How old that makes Mary Poppins no one can guess)
— May 16, 2026 03:06PM
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We are off to meet another of Mary Poppins‘s family. However there is a slight cloud in the first chapter when the children ask Mary Poppins if she would ever leave. Of course they hope she never does but anyone who knows anything about supernatural manifestations knows that sooner or later the magic must leave.
— May 16, 2026 11:20AM
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The author’s note contains mixes melancholy and hope. She assures the child-reader that someday soon fireworks and rockets meant to delight will return to Great Britain. There is no overt mention of the war, Nor the terrifying reality of incoming bombs rockets and missiles,but the knowing reader recognizes the lament and hope.
— May 16, 2026 11:13AM
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This third volume which picks up right after Mary Poppins for away on a kite, is interested also because it starts with an authors note. The first chapter is called 5 November and the speaker explains the tradition of Guy Fawkes day. The copyright day being 1943 the author felt compelled to explain a holiday that involves fireworks and explosions.
— May 16, 2026 11:05AM
