Mary Shepard Kenneth Grahame. Shepard graduated from the Slade School of Art. She was 23 when her father was too busy to illustrate "Mary Poppins" and Travers discovered her work on a Christmas card. She married E. V. Knox, father of Penelope Fitzgerald. Mary Shepard Mary Eleanor Jessie Knox née Shepard (25 December 1909 – 4 September 2000) was an English illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the "Mary Poppins" stories written by P. L. Travers (1934 to 1988): "Mary Shepard: Putting Mary Poppins in the picture", "The Times" of London titled an obituary article. She used her married
Mary Poppins Returns $35 million in its first weekend) and a total of $75 million over its first week of release. The film made $4.8 million on its first day of release. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 78% based on 178 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Mary Poppins Returns" relies on the magic of its classic forebear to cast a familiar – but still solidly effective – family-friendly spell." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 66 out of