Another bit of literary news for you all... about "Mary Poppins!"

Before Mary Poppins was this:

Or this:

It was this:

   Yes... long before Julie Andrews made those little turned-out, airborne feet iconic, or the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" had its own Wikipedia page (not kidding: look), Mary Poppins was just a 200-some-page children's book by a relatively prolific Australian author called P.L. Travers. Eventually, the single book became a small series. Mr. Walt Disney's daughters, it seems, enjoyed the book so much that they made their father promise to make it into a film. The author, however, wasn't so sure Disney had what it took to make her beloved story a big-screen success... at least not on her terms.

   So this December, a film is being released (by Walt Disney Pictures) about the 14-year negotiations and multi-year filmmaking process that were needed to make Mary Poppins, the kid's book, into a major Disney film. And this, my fellow book fiends, is a must-see. Tom Hanks will portray Mr. Disney, while Emma Thompson will portray the "contradiction" of a woman who invented Mary Poppins. Very unfortunately, Julie Andrews is not slated to appear. Regardless, I'm excited for this exploration into the mind of an author and the clash of media industries.

Always,

Your [practically perfect] Bibliomaniac

Bibliography (I use Wikipedia, you can get used to it):

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• "P. L. Travers." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundations, Inc., n.d. Web. 20 July 2013. .
• Ren. "(Wedding) Fantasy Friday." Web log post. So Pretty Was She. Blogger, 27 July 2012. Web. 20 July 2013. .
• Silk, Chris. "Who's Going to See "Mary Poppins" This Week at the Barbara B. Mann?" Naples News. Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group, 14 Jan. 2013. Web. 20 July 2013.
• "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundations, Inc., n.d. Web. 20 July 2013.