3-book Movie Collection: Mary Poppins; Harriet the Spy; Bugsy Malone

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3-book Movie Collection: Mary Poppins; Harriet the Spy; Bugsy Malone
Alan Parker

Louise Fitzhugh

P. L. Travers

Three fantastic books of classic films are brought together in an exclusive ebook bind-up: ‘Mary Poppins’, ‘Harriet the Spy’ and ‘Bugsy Malone’.Mary PoppinsWhen the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take the children on extraordinary adventures. The original story of the world’s most famous nanny, Mary Poppins, is a timeless classic that has enchanted generations.Harriet the SpyHarriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?Bugsy MaloneIn Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town – but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It’s up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day… Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge), this is a mobster story with a twist – the stars are kids!

THE MOVIE COLLECTION

Mary Poppins

Harriet the Spy

Bugsy Malone

Copyright (#ulink_55e45f78-84ef-5edc-bc85-408b3ec1f860)

This e-book collection first published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

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Mary Poppins text copyright © P.L. Travers 1934

Illustrations copyright © Mary Shepard 1934

Harriet the Spy text copyright © Louise Fitzhugh 1968

Illustrations copyright © Louise Fitzhugh 1968

Bugsy Malone text copyright © Alan Parker 1976

Illustrations copyright © 1934

Cover art Mary Poppins Illustrations copyright © reserved 1934

Cover art Harriet the Spy copyright © Lizzy Stewart 2016

Cover photograph Bugsy Malone by permission of Sir Alan Parker

Cover design by HarperCollins Children’s Ltd.

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Mary Poppins ISBN: 9780007372171 Harriet the Spy ISBN: 9780007393121 Bugsy Malone ISBN: 9780007514830

Ebook Edition © MARCH 2017 ISBN: 9780008240073

Version: 2018-07-21

Contents

Cover (#u679e67a6-fa08-5146-9575-402859cf8a08)

Title Page (#u51a97bc1-3877-536f-b319-6e818320b7a2)

Copyright (#u2ef421d3-8e2a-5743-8495-33d996089fa8)

Mary Poppins (#u46b1f24a-35e9-54c9-a130-07cfaecfd598)

Harriet the Spy (#u7f84d83f-ea01-5f70-9b89-35dc91ef3ca1)

Bugsy Malone (#ufd9a1aeb-fa1e-54c0-b7c2-c0c880d94b3f)

About the Publisher (#u9e9d1894-c4eb-5c21-87e5-7887979dfc15)

To myMOTHER1875 – 1928

Why You’ll Love This Book by Cameron Mackintosh (#ulink_15477fe0-cb3a-5322-a3a1-6b4459a478ca)

Mary Poppins delights in letting us know that she “never explains anything” and yet the Banks family fall under her spell and other families all over the world are put back together again by the world’s most famous nanny.

I fell in love with Mary Poppins and Julie Andrews in 1964, just after I left school, when I went to see Walt Disney’s magical film. On reading the credits, I realised the film was based on books by P.L. Travers which I then read avidly, discovering that there were many more stories and characters than those in the film. Her forthright, quirkily funny dialogue stayed with me, brought to life in my head by Julie’s brilliant, no-nonsense delivery in the film. In the late 1970’s I tried, like many other producers, to see if I could get the stage rights to Mary Poppins – but to no avail. Over the years, I often used to think of Mary but it wasn’t until 1993 when I was introduced to her creator, the formidable Pamela Travers, that I found that she wouldn’t explain anything to me either. By then Pamela was a frail, but extremely sharp, 93 year old lady, living in her Chelsea house, in a street looking remarkably like Cherry Tree Lane, eyeing me up and down, asking me lots of questions as she batted away my own. I felt like Michael and Jane Banks, waiting to be told “you’ll do”.

After several meetings, Pamela decided that I really was interested in turning her books into a stage musical, rather than just putting the film on stage – something she had refused to allow for decades, wanting a new and different score. Once Pamela decided I could be trusted with her great creation – though she never admitted creating (a word she hated) Mary, or any of the other characters, saying that “Mary just arrived” – I was in turn able to persuade her that a stage musical could only be made by combining her stories with the key songs from the film. Realising that I was probably her best chance to achieve her long cherished dream of a stage musical, she agreed and I finally felt a musical Mary might fly after all.

Mary Poppins is, and always will be, unique; stern, dependable, businesslike, magical and yet eternally loveable. When Jane and Michael call out “we will never forget you Mary Poppins” you know that though she has flown away, the gift she has brought will remain for always and that Mary is genuinely happy that her charges are now: “practically perfect and I hope it remains so”. Though Pamela would never say where Mary came from, she did in fact give an answer to the children when they asked Mary, “where is your home?” and Mary replies, “My home is wherever I am”.

From the time Pamela entrusted me with the stage rights to her books it took me several years to persuade Disney that a new musical could be created out of both the books and the films key Sherman Brothers songs and during that time I tried to piece together an outline for a dramatic structure that would make theatre audiences want to come back for a second half. The answer of course lay with Pamela herself. In the books Mary Poppins leaves the family twice and comes back only until she’s no longer required. This gave me the clue where the interval should be and enabled me to start putting the songs from the film into new dramatic situations and decide which new songs would be needed. I remember writing much of this treatment on the quayside by the Sydney Opera House, not far from the Old Grand Opera House where Pamela had herself danced and sung in her theatrical days. When I showed what I’d done to Tom Schumacher, who had just become the new head of Disney’s Theatrical production company in 2001, he presented me with armfuls of documents from the Disney vaults written by Pamela herself and said, “It was amazing that I had focused on many of the characters and episodes from the books that Travers wanted included in the Mary Poppins film sequel that was never made”. Whenever I was stuck for an idea, I would think, “What would Pamela do or say”. By separating the film and stage rights, Pamela somehow managed from beyond the grave to get Disney and I to work together and, with the enormous contribution of a lot of talented people, especially Tom, the stage musical she always wanted has now been created and has been miraculously embraced by Disney, fans of her books, her friends, family, trustees, as well as new audiences around the world. I like to think that Pamela would also say “it’ll do” as I have no doubt that if she disapproved she would have somehow sent me her notes!

Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh has been producing shows for more than 40 years during which time he has put on hundreds of productions around the world including Cats, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera – the three longest running musicals of all time – and Miss Saigon. His other productions include the stage musicals Mary Poppins with Disney, Little Shop of Horrors, Side by Side by Sondheim, Follies, Martin Guerre, The Witches of Eastwick and acclaimed international revivals of My Fair Lady, Oliver! and Oklahoma!

Contents

Cover (#u46b1f24a-35e9-54c9-a130-07cfaecfd598)

Title Page (#uc1b8bbde-1228-56f9-8930-8f064d31d48d)

Dedication (#u9949c70c-362b-52d7-90c7-fb448f749a61)

Why You’ll Love This Book by Cameron Mackintosh (#ub09f5fa9-199e-5eef-90f2-8cfdf7e52692)

Chapter One – East Wind (#u38971afd-5fc9-52a2-8636-826e1efd49b6)

Chapter Two – The Day Out (#u2bb0e808-d78a-5543-84d5-646d30213bcb)

Chapter Three – Laughing Gas (#ud39a5298-ba3c-513c-8a33-0802b1ee8070)

Chapter Four – Miss Lark’s Andrew (#u6c71d2b4-1c75-5e2d-94c5-26a3011825f5)

Chapter Five – The Dancing Cow (#u84543ba8-884d-594d-80e6-3465893f73ed)

Chapter Six – Bad Tuesday (#u93d34a4a-4fba-5cd0-b09e-44335ecf5a4b)

Chapter Seven – The Bird Woman (#u8ef28742-8001-5eee-93c4-46ec9ba5ac39)

Chapter Eight – Mrs Corry (#uf64e46bb-7100-5cb7-b3dd-fd91019e2d04)

Chapter Nine – John and Barbara’s Story (#u5715bc5f-3526-59d9-8a43-95dead769f83)

Chapter Ten – Full Moon (#u5944d306-96a8-52cd-8b23-ffeafae5ea85)

Chapter Eleven – Christmas Shopping (#u44bf62ca-881d-5b6a-8940-0dc2e9683c0d)

Chapter Twelve – West Wind (#u69718998-17a7-5c0a-9e85-14e6c90705ad)

More than a story (#u324f1446-b276-57c1-8ccc-759108e10185)

About the Author (#u7a55e31c-8b1f-554b-ae8d-492436682c00)

Have you read all the original Mary Poppins adventures? (#uc607ad2e-aded-5873-a330-faa2e4eb501b)