I recently watched a fantastic children's movie for the umpteenth time. I watched Mary Poppins yet again. This has always been one of my favorite movies, and I will never cease to love the beautiful songs and the fantastic characters and story line. The movie is so fantastic that it is often beyond the realm of possibility, yet even the seemingly impossible features of the story are made plausible by the unique story line.

The magical things do not simply happen all at once. They slowly magnify in intensity through the movie. We are first introduced to something extraordinary when the children begin getting to know Mary Poppins and her "bag of tricks." Later, the children are introduced to Bert who is an incredibly talented artist who makes his money by doing chimney sweep work. He creates paintings that are used to transport the children (with the ever-so-essential help of Mary Poppins) to new and exciting cartoon worlds. They group later visits an old man who is laughing so hard that he ends up flying.

Since we are gradually introduced to Mary Poppins' magic, it is not completely unbelievable. Everyone feels as if we could be transported into the world with Mary Poppins, and after seeing the movie, all children wish for such a wonderful nanny.