Mary Poppins does it like Madonna

Along with Madonna, another popular star is now writing and releasing a new series of children’s books. It’s Mary Poppins herself.

Julie Andrews, who played the “simply perfect” nanny and Maria in the “Sound of Music” from which Madonna borrowed the line “when you know the notes to sing you can sing most anything” for her song Deeper and Deeper, is releasing a line of children’s books, called the Julie Andrews Collection, as an imprint of HarperCollins.

Andrews has been writing children’s books for the last 30 years, and her most recent efforts are written in collaboration with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. One of the first titles already out from the new imprint, which has an open umbrella for a logo, is “Simeon’s Gift,” by Edwards and Hamilton, a story about the joy of giving.