Travers said "we cannot have the extraordinary without the ordinary" and, with her small, peering blue eyes, Poppins negotiates the frontier between mundane reality and a world in which magic lurks around corners.
PL Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Queensland, Australia in 1899, and spent her early years staring up into the wide skies as the stubble of the sugar canes dug into her shoulders.
Travers was plainly a little bonkers, self-consciously oblique, and had much of Poppins's own astringency – she was labelled "touchy as hell" by The New York Times.
Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff aka Pamela Lyndon Travers, Pamela L. Travers) and originally published in 1934 with illustrations by Mary Shepard.
The process of planning the film and composing the songs took about two years, with Travers objecting to a number of elements that actually made it into the movie (such as most of the original songs; she wanted the soundtrack to feature known standards of the Edwardian period in which the movie was set).
Travers demanded that any suggestions of romance between Mary and Bert be eliminated, so lyrics were written for "Jolly Holiday" that clearly indicated that their friendship was purely platonic, although some subtle hints of romance remain.
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