The Tale of the Wicked Old Woman and the Very Nice 'Beast' of Crouch End
A Fable for Children and Their Parents
A fable where a woman long is so saddened when she loses her daughter to a stranger that things die at her touch. She lives magically into the modern and meets a girl called Daisy with an amazing 'green thumb.' She has no effect on Daisy until a gift of a kitten that keeps growing until all turn on Daisy and demand she and her cat go. Daisy reverses the Old Woman's spell. The Old Woman retreats before Daisy, at whose touch her wooden home bursts into growth. She is never seen again.
