Pillywiggins and the Tree Witch — Julia Jarman

 

When Natasha moves to a new house, she discovers a statue of a fairy in her garden beneath a huge menacing fir tree. Gradually, with the help of a local boy, she unravels an ancient story that fairies stole a witch's baby, and as revenge she turned a fairy to stone. Natasha realizes that the only way to free the stone fairy, Pillywiggins, is to go into Fairy Land herself and rescue the witch's baby -- but legend says that any human who enters Fairy Land may age decades or never come out at all.