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The author resisted all Hollywood attempts to make a sequel, though last year she sold an option to two London producers for a musical version. ``There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other,″ she wrote. Her books were intended to convey universal truths in straightforward fashion, she wrote in a 1988 article for The Sunday Times. ``It’s not about sugar and spice, but something from which we grown-ups can learn.″ Travers did not wholly approve of the 1964 Walt Disney film, which won five Academy Awards and starred Julie Andrews as a cutesy, knockabout Mary who kept breaking into song. ``Mary Poppins Comes Back,″ was published in 1935, followed by ``Mary Poppins Opens the Door″ (1944) and ``Mary Poppins in the Park″ (1952). Down to earth, sometimes astringent, she dazzles her two young charges by making medicine taste like candy, sliding up bannisters _ and unpacking her belongings from an empty carpet bag. ``Mary Poppins,″ published in 1934, is the story of a nanny in Edwardian London. Travers died Tuesday at her London home, her family said. Travers, the children’s book author who created Mary Poppins but frowned on the Disney film about the irrepressible English nanny, has died at age 96.
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