The second story in The Mind’s Eye is about Charlotte’s adventures with a rather unreliable dandelion fairy. The fairy possesses a magical two-headed glass bottle, allowing whoever drinks from the green side to grow smaller, while the yellow side makes you grow bigger.
It isn’t long before Charlotte drinks the green juice and encounters a transformed world, although it takes an emergency for her to gulp down some of the yellow juice. Envying her new friend’s ability to fly, she grows wings, becoming a butterfly girl, while her older brother David, let into the secret, becomes a blackbird.
Here is a brief extract from the first chapter:
“Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly,
Lavend…. O what’s that!?”
The song wobbled and fell silent. Charlotte had seen a quite unexpected something. On the grass beside her was a clump of golden dandelions and sitting on top of the biggest one was a little creature! It definitely wasn’t a dandelion though it looked very like one. Charlotte leaned right forward until her long hair touched the ground and stared with her eyes and mouth wide open in surprise.
“Go on,” said the creature. “What were you going to say?”
“I wasn’t,” said Charlotte, “I was singing, not saying.”
“I heard you calling,” said the creature. “What do you want?”
“But I wasn’t,” said Charlotte, “and I don’t want anything.”
“Don’t you?” said the creature. “I want masses of things. But why did you call me then?”
“But I didn’t,” said Charlotte. “I just finished the dilly dilly bit. I wasn’t calling.”
“But I’m called Dilly,” said the creature. “It’s my name. So when I heard you, I thought you wanted me. So I grew.”
“You grew?” said Charlotte. “I don’t understand. I don’t understand anything!”
“Don’t you?” replied the creature. “I understand loads of things.”
Read about the third story in The Mind’s Eye