The novels were loved by Disney's daughters when they were children, and Disney spent 20 years trying to purchase the film rights to Mary Poppins, which included visits to Travers at her home in London.

I was only saying,” began Michael, meekly, “that we hoped you wouldn’t be going away soon—” He stopped, feeling very red and confused. The stage musical was transferred to Broadway, in New York, in 2006, where it ran until its closing on 3 March 2013. He declined, too busy with other drawing commissions, but fortuitously Travers saw Mary’s artwork on a Christmas card and felt her whimsical style was well suited to her vision for Mary Poppins. A fallen star once became caught on her horn, causing her to dance uncontrollably until in desperation she jumped over the moon.Through her connection to Russell, she became friends with poet William Butler Yeats and studied mythology with G. During her teen years, her writing talents took flight, and eventually her poetry was published in Australian periodicals. Travers also had work accepted and published by publications including the Shakespeare Quarterly, Vision, and The Green Room. Though her father’s actual position was somewhat unimpressive, Pamela’s mother, Margaret Morehead, came from a wealthy and influential Australian family (she was, in fact, the niece of the Premier of Queensland, so the Guardian wasn’t entirely off base). Only the first three books in the series shows her entering and leaving, in the rest of the series she just vanishes.

Everyone is surprised, when Michael reels his kite in, to find that Mary Poppins is at the end of the string. Mary Poppins looked down at her feet and rubbed the toe of one shoe along the pavement two or three times. She also plays a similar role in the musical, where she sings the song "Feed the Birds" as a duet with Mary. Mary Poppins is given the charge to take care of five Banks children where she is portrayed as no nonsense and tough nanny who uses extra ordinary measure to instill discipline to the kids. And she proceeded to unwind her muffler from her neck and to take off her hat, which she hung on one of the bedposts.Jane and Michael could see that the newcomer had shiny black hair—“Rather like a wooden Dutch doll,” whispered Jane. During the Second World War, Travers worked for the British Ministry of Information, spending five years in the US, publishing I Go by Sea, I Go by Land in 1941. Perhaps, and yet she included an oatmeal cookie recipe in a cookbook she wrote (more on that below). In a 1982 interview with the Paris Review, Travers also expressed gratitude to children for including her books “in their treasure trove.