Mary Poppins Comes Back hints that he is a character in a story that Mary Poppins tells the children about a king who is led astray by The Fool (Jester) and that he is the Fool. In the books, she is the struggling mistress of the Banks household, and is easily intimidated by Mary Poppins, who treats her with thinly veiled contempt. Mary Poppins is rude and vain and pretty unpleasant, she belittles people and punishes people (especially gold digging women) in really harsh ways.

She appears in the 1964 film played by Jane Darwell (in her final film appearance) and is the subject of the song " Feed the Birds" sung by Poppins.

She is said to have been in her teens when the world was created, and knew William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great.

Condition: These books are in good condition for their age other than some minor signs of wear and tanned pages. Für weitere Informationen zu Ihren gesetzlichen Rechten wenden Sie sich an die Abteilung für Handelsnormen Ihrer örtlichen Behörde oder an ein Verbraucherberatungszentrum (z. The books centre on the magical English nanny Mary Poppins, who is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Bankses’ household to care for their children. He is a young boy (mid-teens) and is very lazy and forgetful, doing such things as putting bootblack on Mr. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.I am the lucky owner of the old editions with plenty of drawings and that's another reason why I loved those books so much when I was young. But he was not a static character; his attitude changed throughout the film to finally becoming the type of affectionate father that most children would wish for, shown most prominently with him fixing his children's kite and taking them to go fly it outside. Brill and Ellen (played by Reta Shaw and Hermione Baddeley, respectively), but not Robertson Ay; the musical includes Mrs.