Illinois connection to Walt Disney and Mary Poppins

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 08:50PM
JAS in California,, Disney, ISU, Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers, Walt Disney, children's literature, children's literature, popular culture

Walt Disney grew up, partly, in Illinois.  The first person to get P. L. Travers to admit that she didn't really like the Disney version of her popular book Mary Poppins was from Illinois State University.  I spoke about these connections to ISU's Media Relations in a nice article by Rachel Hatch.  Here's the link: http://mediarelations.illinoisstate.edu/report/1314/march4/disney.asp

Article originally appeared on Ghost of the Talking Cricket: Susina on Literature (http://ghostofthetalkingcricket.squarespace.com/).