Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary's care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal, visit the upside-down world of Mr. Turvy and his bride, Miss Topsy, and spend a breathless afternoon above the park, dangling from a clutch of balloons.

B (Good).

A family gets a magic nanny again.

A lot of it is redundant, just doing things the first book did a second time. But a handful of the stories are great.

(Sep. 2024) ( )

Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary's care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal, visit the upside-down world of Mr. Turvy and his bride, Miss Topsy, and spend a breathless afternoon above the park, dangling from a clutch of balloons.

Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary's care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and the Dirty Rascal, visit the upside-down world of Mr. Turvy and his bride, Miss Topsy, and spend a breathless afternoon above the park, dangling from a clutch of balloons.

Still working but not sure how much longer the series could continue to be this enjoyable. There are some repetitive elements, Poppins staring at herself in mirrors, or denying that anything magical has happened. Also some of the plot outlines are similar but these are all minor things in the grand scheme. For now still charming.

In my review of the first book i compared Poppins to the Discworlds' Granny Weatherwax but at this point she reminds me of Doctor Who, especially the early versions of the doctor.

During the read i was wondering if the Mary Poppins stories count as magical realism but i then needed to define that term so i came up with this: "Magical Realism is when a story has magical (ie non-scientific) elements, said elements being neither Consistent nor Persistent".
I concluded Poppins was inconsistent enough but failed the second criteria because Mary and the magic around her was too Persistent. Anyway, sidebar over.

Overall still delightfully weird enough for me to continue the series. ( )