A spoonful of sugar! With maybe just a touch of strychnine. Oldsters, who were kids in 1964, may still recall the hoopla and hysteria around "Mary Poppins," released 60 years ago this August 27.

It's so fun to revisit, as an adult, the things you loved as a child. From the schoolyard in your hometown that suddenly seems so small, to your favorite novel from college that means so much more now ...