About the book: 1974 / How similar to a fairy tale the story of the Old Man Root is! He was once a root, then he became a little man in a vest and trousers, and from generation to generation grandmothers told their grandchildren mysterious legends about him. For many, many years he lay in a dark closet, in a narrow plywood box, as if in a small cramped coffin, and then he woke up, came to life, became younger and became a famous puppet theater actor, a favorite of the audience. Prejudices are a thing of the past, but the fairy tale is alive, and its never-dull heroes are alive - the Old Man Root and the Brave Tailor. And the story of the girl Daisy itself is similar to a fairy tale. The stepmother, the hut, and the mysterious Old Man Root take part in it. Only this is not a fairy tale, but the truth, a true story about the life of a modern girl, your peer from the GDR, about her real troubles and joys. But in life, a fairy tale is alive, and there is always a lot from which a new fairy tale could be born. This is what the German children's writer Augusta Lazar wanted to tell you guys about in her book “Chamomile and the Old Man Root.”.