Lizzie Dripping is a dreamer, the kind of girl who is always making things up. The trouble is that her dreams have a nasty habit of turning into real adventures.
Ever since Lizzie had ' lost' her baby brother, her mother had been nagging at her,' She wouldn'carry on at me like that if she knew I'd got a witch for a friend,' thought Lizzie.
Nobblers Albert Arbuckle was quite certain that, growing in his garden, were leeks such as he had never grown before - leeks beautifully green and thick. Lizzie was determined that Dad should win First Prize at the Little Hemlock and Bilbury Leek Show.