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Merė Popins parke by Auksė Mardosaitė, P.L. Travers

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pabloandres's review against another edition

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adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

vlogginglefaye's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

spauffwrites's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

A collection of sweet children’s tales, several centered around the park. Pleasant to listen to, but not as good as the first Mary Poppins book. Michael’s tale with the cat kingdom was the weirdest and my favorite.

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adventurous slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I enjoyed the narrator and the writing and story-telling. Book Mary Poppins is not AS benevolent, young, and whimsical as the movie MP. She's much more strict and blunt and older. Also she weirdly gaslights the children but also involves them in wonderful adventures to teach them lessons.

This book felt like more short stories loosely connected. The last story 'Halloween' feels similar to Peter Pan, but takes off and tells a silly wondering enjoyable story.

Sadly, It has dated references and word choices to Einy, Meeny, Miny, Moe. The rest of that old racist children's rhyme is the begining focus on one of the chapters that takes off in an entirely different direction, but mentions the rhyme multiple times. It's hard reading passage of something I now recognize as wrong and racist, even if "how it was" "back in the day". But it's short and not a main focus, and overall the writing is so smooth and easy and flows well. I don't know if recommend it, but I am interested in reading all the Mary Poppins books and this one was better than the previous book.